I need a challenge called “post everyday for a week and then disappear for a week and then post again” I think I would OWN that one.

Two weeks ago marked the beginning of NaBloPoMo, and I decided on a whim to jump on board.  Then, I posted like a demented fiend for a week and hit the wall.  The wall of LIFE HAPPENS.  I received an email that my blog hosting plan was expiring and they wanted A LOT more money to renew for another term.  So I left them.  Just like that.  I was GONE.  I packed up my virtual shit and left for sweeter pastures.  So, now we’re happily wrapped in the warm, fully functioning (and really freakin’ cheap!) arms of Bluehost for the next three years.  And I must say, so far, I am loving it.

And I didn’t cry during the migration from GoDaddy.  Not one single tear did I shed.  Oh sure, there was some confusion over databases and backups and there was a loooooong ‘live chat’ session with two separate CSR’s at Bluehost over the period of a few hours (all one session though), but we got it done.  And everyone was nice and civil  and polite, even with the occasional emoticon tossed in for good measure 🙂 :).  AND I don’t think there was more than ten minutes of down time during the entire migration, which is a WAY shorter time than the DAYS of downtime the blog experienced when I moved us from WordPress to GoDaddy.

When I reviewed the options for technical support, and saw that they offered ‘live chat’, I worried, in my over-reactive way that there could be some type of nudity or virtual sex play offered or expected, but alas, my virtue is intact, my marriage vows as strong as the day I made them and my faith in this here interweb somewhat restored.  See?  It doesn’t have to be all sex, violence and debauchery (or douchbaggery as I’ve recently heard someone call it) online.  Sometimes a 🙂 is just a 🙂 and sometimes you actually get the answers and the help that you’re looking for without a lot of frustration and wrong turns.

P.S.  I’ve done the apple cider and dish soap trick, only caught two fruit flies and made my kids gag in the process.  I think the rest of these things are some kind of robo-fruit flies. They are unreal.  Any suggestions, short of burning down the house to get rid of them?  I know they’re not harmful but they are irritating as hell.