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ATTENTION!!!

Lizzie’s Home has returned to its Blogger roots!  You can find us here: www.lizzieshome.blogspot.com

Please be advised that my ‘dot com’ hosting plan has now expired and there is no guarantee that this blog, or even this post, will be visible for much longer.  I still own the domain name, but for the time being will not be hosting a blog at this address (the fact that I’m able to post this message at all is rather strange actually, LOL)

Ninety-five percent of the posts which have appeared here since March 2008 (and 100% prior to that) have been transferred to new address, so if you’ve arrived here looking for something in particular, you’re bound to find it at the above address :)

If you are still accessing lizzieshome.com and were suddenly cut off last week with no warning, rest assured this was a web host error and I apologize for any inconvenience.Please update your feed readers!  I miss you guys!

Wait Until Everything Is Perfect? Pfft! I Fly In The Face Of Danger!

It’s time.  Time to jump ship.

Nothing is working, nothing is where it should be, my feed is haywire and I’ve developed a bald patch but by gosh, I’m gonna do it.

This marks one of the last posts here on www.lizzieshome.com.  I really, really hope it makes it out to the feed readers because, um, I think I’ve fudged something behind the scenes…

From here on out, I’ll be posting more or less exclusively at www.lizzieshome.BLOGSPOT.com - those that have been reading this little o’ blog for more than a year will recognise it as my old URL.  It’s broken, tired, and in need of some serious TLC but the longer I leave it, the more stressed I get, so here it is.

The ‘dot com’ version will remain viable through till around the first week of March.  I’m jumping early because I wanted to leave a notice up here for as long as possible.  And now, here’s the begging part:

I love ALL my readers.  Every one of ‘em.  I would dearly, dearly love for you to subscribe to the new URL in your feed readers.  I know there is a way you can transfer feeds so that nobody needs to do any more subscribing but do you think I can figure it out? That would be a BIG FAT NOPE.  Mind you, if anyone feels the burning urge to help me, I am all ears.  Important: IN CASE I BREAK THE INTERNET, please keep this subscription as well (please, please, please!) until I can be certain everything is working as it should be.  If for some reason my feed isn’t working I need to get news out somehow.

Eventually, I will fix all the broken links, posts etc over at the new (old?) place.  Content is fine from Jan 1st onward (I’m missing a few posts done here in the last couple of days, but that’s easily rectified) and prior to April 2008.  May through December 2008 is completely missing - for now.  These will slowly be reposted.  It takes a looooong time to manually repost 200-somethin’ awesome snippets-o-Lizzie.  If I waited until they were all done before switching back, nothing would ever get done.

There will be a period of adjustment, both on my part and on the blog’s part.  There are further changes afoot (one massive blogging disaster at a time kind sir) but I’ll update everyone as they go ‘live’.  I’ve given up trying to aim for a specific date.  “Soonish” is about all I can offer you at this point but if you are still getting posts on a semi-daily basis you’ll at least hear what’s going on.

So that’s it.  I’m taping up boxes.  If you are one of the kind (delightful!) souls who have previously linked to a post of mine on the ‘dot com’ these will continue to work until the first week of March.  However, as I will be duplicating all the posts on the Blogger version, when that date gets closer you might want to do a little tweaky-poo to reflect the new links before the dot com goes kaput at the end of my hosting plan - but remember, I’m slowly adding May to December’s posts so don’t be too hasty.  I will post an update when the posting is finally re-done and a few reminders about the demise of the dot com when that gets nearer.

Show me some love folks.  Come back to Blogger with me or I think I may cry. 

Oh - and there might just be an incentive.  I may just be doing a Bloggy Giveaway on the new site in a couple of weeks :)

Smootches!

I Had The Grandest Of Plans Today

I love June Cleaver After A Six-Pack.  I mean, we Aussies never got Leave It To Beaver (well, as far as I know, anyway) and I was about thirty years too late to properly enjoy it, even if we were to get it.  We had The Sullivans and A Country Practice.  But I get the June Cleaver analogy - uber-Mum akin to Mrs Brady but with far less children, right?  I just struggle to find an Aussie equivalent, LOL.

Now, the above-mentioned blog usually hits the nail on the head with the witty but mortifyingly funny posts.  Take this one for example.  Laughed till I cried.  Then went online to browse Victoria’s Secret from afar because hello? It is another American Thing we Aussies don’t have down here.

However, today’s post, God…You Are Such A Sly Guy! is only half the truth.  That ‘week of bliss’ of which she speaks?  Not one iota mentioned about the flip side to the coin!  The one or two days every month that you would willingly carve your own eyeballs out with a rusty spoon if it kept you from having to get up and, you know, actually do stuff.

My tum-tum hurts.  Sigh.

And! Everything in my house is WRONG, just WRONG and must be fixed immediately!  The spare room we have been ‘cleaning out’ for Boof for two years needs to be attacked today!  Right this instant!  And why is it not done already! And the laundry I’ve been cleverly stupidly ignoring since we returned from our trip almost two weeks ago needs to be obliterated!  And why isn’t the darn iron working! And God? What’s up with this heat?  AND WHAT ON EARTH IS THIS CRUMB DOING ON THE BENCHTOP!!!

(and trust me, if you knew me personally, you would realise how insanely opposite of my normal demeanour that last sentence is)

I’m not normally this crazy-obsessive, probably because I’m not usually one to suffer ‘that time of the month’ too badly.  Most of the time I barely pause.  Today though, I’m actually feeling just about lousy enough to say to heck with it all and sleep the rest of the afternoon away.  I can plead the ‘my uterus nutured YOUR babies’ card with Talented Hubby.  I’ve calculated I can use it approximately 1.4 times per year and I’m well overdue.  But I’m nice, so I won’t.

I’ve done two loads of laundry and about one-seventeenth of the room clean-out.  I’ll make sandwiches in a moment for The Horde.  And later on today I may even get domestic enough to make a menu.

Maybe.

Short Blogging Hiatus (Or, My Blog Is Frying My Brain)

Don’t panic.  Life is good.  Bullety, because blogging scares me right now.

• This morning we finally secured a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel puppy.  Woot!  But we have to fly it from interstate which left us a bit apprehensive.  We made round after round of phone calls, spoke to references, and were reassured.  Apparently flying puppies happens quite often - who’d have thought?  Pup due to arrive at the end of the month.  Kids are suitably thrilled.  Fingers crossed nothing goes wrong.
• After MUCH thought, I’ve decided to return to Blogger.  Originally the idea was to simply shift over when my hosting plan ends at the end of February.  And then in my research I discovered um, no, the longer I leave it, the more comments I’ll lose in the transfer.  Losing all the comments over the past year is maddening but it would be worse to lose the posts themselves, so I’m grinning and bearing it.  Apparently there’s a program out there that will do a ‘reverse transfer’ from Wordpress to Blogger but I am too technophobic to work it out, so I’ve resorted to manual transfer.  Yes folks.  I am copy/pasting EVERY POST since March of last year.  It works, but it’s SLOW going.
• I am clone-posting here and at the new site.  At some point in the next week I will officially anounce the move.  Until then, carry on as normal.  But the sooner I restart over at the new/old digs, the better, as the comments thereafter will stay put.

More updates soon…

Mayday! Mayday! (Tech-y Stuff)

Does anyone have experience with backing up a Wordpress blog?  I found a plugin to schedule backups but it is coming up with this error message from within the Tools menu (ie, I’ve managed to upload the plugin and activate it, but it won’t let me go any further):

WARNING: Your backup directory does NOT exist, and we cannot create it.

Using your FTP client, try to create the backup directory yourself: /home/lizziesh/public_html/wp-content/backup-8e518/

WARNING: Your backup directory is NOT writable!

I have absolutely no idea how to create my own backup directory.  Halp!

The reason for the backup is kind of paramount.  It is looking increasingly likely that Lizzie’s Home will be moving back to Blogger (and therefore will change to www.lizzieshome.blogspot.com as it was originally) when my hosting arrangement expires toward the end of February.  But before I make that final decision, I am trying all possible avenues to export FROM Wordpress TO Blogger (there’s millions of articles out there on how to export Blogger TO Wordpress, but almost nothing in reverse)  I have, however, stumbled across a program which will (in theory) let me at least attempt it, but before I try it, I want to back things up in case my world (ie, the blog) collapses around me.  I just don’t feel comfortable laying 513 posts on the line if this ‘might work, might not’ program chooses not to work.  The only alternative I have is to manually copy/paste the last 12 months of posts (approx 200) and I want to do that about as badly as I want to stab myself in the eye with a rusty fork.  Which I will gladly do as collateral if someone….anyone!…could help me!

So if you have ANY tech-y expertise, I implore you to put your hand up.  Or rope your bloggy husbands into the mix.  I will sing your praises forever.

Because I cannot TELL you how stressed this has made me…