Dear Blog, I’m an Ass
Hey. Guess what’s awesome? Transferring your domain & web hosting services to one provider instead of two, which incidentally, cuts your monthly fee in HALF. Score!
And guess what make you look SUPER professional and knowledgeable?
Not backing up your effing website files because you checked your sites when you executed the transfer AND EVERYTHING WAS STILL THERE so you ASSUMED all the content was automatically going to make it over. While I will also say I was highly distracted by the fact that I felt as sick as a DOG yesterday, we all know what they say about assuming.
Due to my colossal dumbassery, I’ve lost most of my main website and all the images on this blog are gone, as is every single post written between February and June. Including one of my best posts ever: It’s Your Basic Nightmare. Yay me.
Please bear with me as I recover as much as I can. Which, I can already tell, is going to take extra long with all the breaks I’m going to need for banging my head against my desk.
Weekly Column Wrap-up: Sweaters & Sanity
Two weeks ago, I recount that one time Algie went back to the vet. After which he started lying around like he was going to die. We spent an entire day saying goodbye. And it turned out that all he had was a fricking fever.
Jules: “Al, it’s gorgeous today. You want to go outside?”
Algie: “Meh.”
Jules: “You want to play?”
Algie: “Meh.”
Jules: “You want to go to the vet?”
Algie: “…meh.” [click for full article]
Last week in the Covington/Maple Valley Reporter, Algie starts peeing. ON EVERYTHING. And I officially become the crazy cat lady who has written about her pet to the point of blurring the line to mommy-blog zone.
Algie: “Hey. Check out this laundry. In the laundry room. Waiting to be laundered.”
Jules: “Whatcha doing, kitty?”
Algie: “Something I’ve never done. In. My. Entire. Life. Hmm-hmm-hmmm…”
Jules: “KITTY, WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!?” [click for full article]
Green Falls
Early in January, my friend Maiya and I started taking free photography classes at our local Kitz Camera shop, and I’ve been dying to try a time-delayed water shot ever since. The picture below is the only shot of about 35 that I was able to get in focus, and as a result I have a number of recommendations for anyone else who wants to give it a try:
- call your local store to get their class schedule (almost every store holds these year-round)
- if you’re shooting on a mountain that never thaws, congratulate yourself for thinking to grab your coat, but next time MAYBE ALSO BRING GLOVES
- don’t walk around reminding yourself all morning NOT to forget your tripod, and then forget your tripod, DORK
North side, Mt. Rainier, WA
Foggy Paradise
I don’t know if it was because the Visitor’s Center was rebuilt in 2008, or because it was 100% sunny on our last trip. Standing in Paradise last week felt like we’d walked through the wardrobe and found ourselves transported to an alien, magical land. Like Amsterdam.
Paradise, Mt. Rainier, WA
