Foiled again
I was working on a post for Wednesday, nothing fancy, just a contest/drawing for a fun prize. When I realized that my hubby had taken the backseat far too long from my aid. OK, not my hubby, but my hubby’s blog. Not only had I neglected his blog (I was supposed to move it from the old server to the new one already) but I had failed to upgrade his blog for a while, a long while. My poor hubby was still running WP2.2. Seriously. I failed his blog. I did what had to be done. I doubled checked the way to do it. I backed up (OH, so glad I backed up). Always back up your blogs when you do anything major, or minor for that matter. Make a habit of backing up your blog/s. Backup your blog via your WordPress admin with this great little plugin called WP-DB-backup and via phpMyAdmin in your cpanel. If you do not have access to your cpanel then download this great little plugin called WP-phpMyAdmin which gives you access to your phpMyAdmin via your WordPress admin. It’s a huge plugin, but it will do if you don’t have access any other way. You can learn how to back up with this tool right here.
So, there was trouble with my hubby’s blog move. I won’t go into all the detail here, but we lost the comments on the last three posts before I moved it. I still haven’t figured out why because they were gone from both forms of the backup. His blog is back up now and other than the loss of those 18 comments all is well. We are fee from our old hosting server completely now. Thank Goodness - that was more trouble than it was worth.
Because of the trouble with the files I lost most of my day. My post about the contest was put off until yesterday.
Fast forward to yesterday. I got an e-mail yesterday morning about a homeschool blogroll of which I was going to be taking over the maintenance. Basically the e-mail was the note I was waiting for to say it was time for me to take over. I needed to do a little work on the blogroll itself, get a page written about joining the blogroll, yada, yada, yada. But first I had other things to do yesterday.
This past week was testing week with the home school group and I needed to provide some of the Teacher snacks for yesterday. No problem, except when you take your children to the test site then forget half of what you got for the snack back at the house. Again, not that big of a deal, just time. I was do at the elementary school where Princerella goes to each lunch with her. She was the Student of the Week this week so we (SmockDaddy and I) each got to have a day to eat with her. Eating lunch with her was fun and a great post for tomorrow. After lunch I was to go get the others from the test site. I needed to stop by the vet to discuss a few things. Then it was lunchtime for everyone else. I worked on the blogroll and page with instructions some more, then it was time to go pick up Mog’s new reading glasses. From there, off to the grocery store. I finished the page, then corrected a bit of code on the homeschool blog, adding in the proper links to the blogroll page. Installed a plugin for my hubby to allow the cute little Monster IDs to show on his blog instead of those generic things for all the non-Gravatar commenters.
Yada, Yada, yada. Right?
Hang tight. I’m almost to the climax. Oooh, a climax. ;)
The afternoon began to run late, I was just getting going on the fixes real good and our Internet access went out. This was around 5-ish. It didn’t come back on until after 11-ish. Talk about aggravation. I was in the middle of FTPing a file when it went out. I was too tired them to concentrate to finish. I went to bed. Are you ready for the climax? Good, go get one. Bwahahaha.
This morning I took it slow, knowing that our rescheduled weekly trip to the library would be along soon enough, but I wanted to sip my coffee slowly. I did. didn’t get my shower until about 9:30. WOOT! for slow mornings. After dressing we hit the scene at the library. You know, because it is such a happening scene. Our children are on the third reading of the books there, more like the fourth or fifth. Its stinks when the library is great: good people work there, children’s reading hour, a great design for the children’s section, but lacking in books. I’m just so used to a bigger library that it’s hard to be in love with this one. We have yet to find more than one book on our entire set of book lists from the entire time we have been here homeschooling.
After the library I had planned to grab a quick bite and then go to town for a bit of shopping that needed to get done. Some one’s tummy didn’t feel good on the exit so we rushed home and took some meds. All seemed to be fine so we decided to head over to town anyway. But now it was late and i couldn’t get back in time to get the girls from school. It’s Friday, right? So we checked them out. boy were they thrilled. Off to Target we head. We got the children each a bathing suit which they haven’t had in two years. Picked up a few more things we prefer to buy there instead of at Waldemart. But, oh, it was snack time! And we love the target snack bar. Popcorn and a drink for $1.00, Baby! But some of us got pretzels instead. I finished up quickly and headed back out to the store to complete the list while they finished eating. About ten minutes later Goro complained that his stomach “felt odd.” After what his sister had been through earlier in the day I quickly showed him the restroom near us. I received the look of chastisement that only a son can give his mother when she misunderstood him. A few minutes later his father, giving him the previously mentioned look, took him off to the restroom as we headed for the checkout. They met up with us confirming that the recently eaten snack was seen again. They head to car while Mog and I finish at the checkout. By the time we got through the checkout and the car loaded Goro was breaking out in a rash and swelling up. With a ride home of about 40 minutes we opted instead of grabbing some liquid Benadryl from Target to run to the ER and get a Benadryl and steroid (this is not the first time this has happened). I do not regret the decision to help my son. I’d make the same one again. BUT. That was the slowest hospital I have ever been to. We pulled in to the ER and more than three hours later we left. We saw the doctor only 30 minutes before we left; by the time the doctor got to us my son was also complaining about breathing and he was sounding different. Me? I was just angry. I know that the lady that came in with a seizure was sick too, but why was there only one nurse? one doctor? one tech? Why couldn’t some one else have been called to help my son who was having a reaction to something and scared? Why did we have to wait for the computer technician to finish with the computer before they would allow us to talk to anyone. We walked in with obvious rash, hives, swelling, redness, and upset stomach. A nurse could have come by to see him to know whether or not he needed something right then too. We’ll not be going there again. I don’t think they cared. They doctor told me officially, it was just a coincidence that this all happened at the same time.
I’m tired. I will get the contest up for Monday. Keep your eyes peeled and subscribe tot he feed so you don’t miss it.
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May 10th, 2008 at 4:53 am
You had quite a day. Hope your son is on the mend.
That sounds like Canadian healthcare. My grandfather went to the ouptpatient’s emergency the other day at around 9AM and got out of there at 4:30PM with an antibiotic prescribed by a nurse!
Hope you get rested this weekend.
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May 10th, 2008 at 6:49 am
Be sure to elect a candidate who approves of universal healthcare and we can all enjoy a Canadian -like health care experience.
Hope I is doing okay. What is he allergic too? You should have an epi pen young lady.
May 10th, 2008 at 8:03 am
Wow! Never a dull moment…How awful the hospital was so slow in responding!!
May 11th, 2008 at 6:55 pm
Wow, you keep the action flying, never a dull moment.
Are y’all members of the county’s Christian HS group? We were when we lived there.
Yummy Target icees, my personal favorite!
I hate ER’s we always use a walk-in clinic because the ER isn’t reliable.
I don’t see how you keep it altogether with this blog and that blog.
You go girl!
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