This morning, I am frustrated. I just posted one of my best blogs on my page on MySpace, http://www.myspace.com/eclectopianworld, and not noticing I’d lost my Wi-Fi connection, I clicked to post, and got the dreaded:
Internet Explorer cannot display this page.
I frantically clicked backspace, panicking. Had I been using both sides of my brain, I would have waited patiently until connection was restored, then refreshed. But no, I stupidly clicked everything. Back button, forward button, enter, spacebar…I screwed it up. It’s gone, and I’m mad because it was the sort of critical thinking I hope to display in all of my posts.
Wow, I can’t believe I’m this angry over this. My plan this morning, besides studying for my finals, was to catch up on my blogs and take a nap before kids and hubby came back home. I guess there’s no reason to not do this, but I really am missing that blog.
(You know, with the sunlight hitting my screen this way, I can see how dusty it is, can I just wipe it clean?)
I mentioned MySpace earlier, and this is my latest accomplishment. A month ago, just to do it, I signed up with MySpace, just to do it. After I posted a picture, (the same one I posted here, so don’t check) I couldn’t quite figure out what to do from there. I checked out other pages, and I was pretty sure I didn’t want to go with the ‘glitter whore’ layout I’d seen on many pages. (Lol @ glitter whore)
So, I abandoned the page, and by abandoning, I simply mean I ignored the site for so long I’d forgotten my username and password. But, the good people of MySpace were nice enough to email it to me, and last night I tried again.
I was much more successful, by that I mean patient, this time. I learned how to get a free layout at http://www.pyzam.com and while 90% of them were of that glittery whore variety, there were a few really nice ones. I almost panicked when I saw the option to ‘get the code,’ because, WHAT’S A CODE? But that was pretty easy too, a simple cut and paste jobby that took all of 2 minutes. Unfortunately, I have to live with pyzam.com being plastered in all the corners of my page. I have decided this morning, to Google ‘How to write HTML,’ and maybe while I’m on Christmas break, I will learn how to launch my own website. (That made me smile.)
I am on a roll. I’m learning loads of new things. I like this, I like feeling like I’m adding new skills to my life, and figuring out how to adapt them to make my family’s life better. And that makes me feel better about losing my blog post on MySpace.
