Haven’t you heard? It’s De-lurking Week! Come on out of the bloggy woodwork and say hi! Seriously. I don’t bite. Well…maybe, if you think leggings are pants, but other than that we should be okay!

I will, if you will. Hell, comment even if you aren’t a lurker. I promise to comment on every blog I read (even ones I regularly read and comment on!) for the rest of this week, even if it’s through Google reader.

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So I’m pretty sure I have the best readers out there. I want to thank you guys for all the comments, support and even offers of going out and getting wasted with me! You are all wonderful. Seriously, I’ve been writing here since October and never expected that many people would read, let alone comment but here we are. You are all fabulous and if I was rich — drinks, shoes and handbags on me.

I’ll write a recap on last nights very, very disappointing Project Runway later today. If that won’t do, go read Tiff’s, her recaps are way better than mine anyway!

Most of you missed the great blog fiasco this weekend. Okay, it really wasn’t a fiasco to anyone but me. I stupidly thought I could update Wordpress on my own, screwed it up, had to delete my whole blog, reinstalled, fortunately had a backup of all entries and comments, lost all my themes and widgets and got everything back up and running. Once I got everything back up, I realized my blog wasn’t coming up on feed readers. For some reason, they were marking all my new entries as old and dating them months back even though they were new.

All that matters is I’m up and running! Should you so choose, you can also subscribe by email now or through a reader, both options are over there on the right. ————–>

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On to other matters of the non-bloggy kind. We are having some freakishly spring weather over here in Chicago for the past few days! It’s been in the 50s, kind of wet and rainy and we are having a flash flood warning until tomorrow. It’s a fabulous change from freezing, below-zero temperatures and heavy snow though. Chicago will set me straight soon enough with a drastic change that will leave me scrambling for my parka and ugly boots.

I promise, tomorrow I will have something up about my Las Vegas trip. So far all I gave you was a Coco and Ice T sighting and while I know how much everyone loves Coco, it’s just not that much of an update. I have pictures of cute, cuddly lions! Playing with each other!

This week I only work two days. I’ve worked only one day in the past two weeks with Christmas and my own vacation. It’s made me absolutely slothful. You couldn’t pay me to get out of comfy clothes and do something other than lay around. I’m trying to enjoy my days off while I have them. Next week starts two months of nonstop go go go. I’ll write more about that later though, it’s an entry all in itself.

Shout out to the bizarro Detroit me for the Juno soundtrack! Thanks, ilu!

I think I fixed my feed reader problem. If you are viewing this from your feed reader, comment and let me know if it is working!

I don’t think my last entry showed up in feed readers. This is a test entry. A cute one.

Cute Overload

Okay for some reason my posts are showing up in google reader but at the wrong date.  My two newest entries are showing up on Dec 24. How do I fix this?!

So this stupid wordpress update has been sitting on my dashboard, taunting me to update my site for the past week. I, being the sissy that I am, put it off because I am afraid I will fuck everything up. Today, I decide to man up and just upgrade.

What do I do?

Completely fuck everything up. I have to delete wordpress from my server and re-install it. Luckily, I had saved my posts, comments and all of that in an XML file thingy, but my theme, plugins, widgets and all that…GONE. I’ve been scrambling to get everything somewhat back to how it was. I can’t believe I almost lost my whole blog.

Oh, when I reinstalled wordpress, of course, I did not install the newest one. I’m still stuck with the one I had before I messed everything up.

I’m never trying to update wordpress again.

I will have version 2.3.1 for the rest of my life.

Forever.

EDIT

I got everything back up but now my entries are showing up as old in feed readers. So it seems like I haven’t updated but really my new entries are all marked with December publishing dates. 

 I DON’T KNOW HOW TO FIX IT AND IT IS MAKING ME CRAZY.

Google brings me the best searches. I really wish I would have started making a list of the really great ones before they were kicked out of my log!

Oh, well. Here are the best ones I have received recently:

leggings as pants, metallic leggings, cutesy metallic leggings and latex like leggings - It makes me flinch just reading those. When will people ever learn. Please refer to this entry: Illegal and never come back to my site again. Thanks.

why am i always fiddling with my hair?- I do not know why, lovely, but I do it as well. Nervous habit, maybe?

mario wearing uggs - I do not know Mario or why Mario would be wearing Uggs.

ridiculous things that are illegal - I often talk about ridiculous things and things that should be illegal. I guess leggings could be considered ridiculous things that should be illegal?

i need a nice louis vuitton bag for - don’t we all need a nice Louis Vuitton bag?

this corn is an angel - Yay Steve Carrel! Oh and Dane Cook is the least funny guy in the entire world.

100 things to do with your boyfriend instead of it - hmmm…

oh how lovely blog chicago - someone is obviously stalking me

what kind of shirts does shia lebouf wear? - ahh, I really don’t think I can help you there

what not to do at a club - I’m just full of answers.

what kind of camera does the cobrasnake - sorry, not interested in photoblogs of badly dressed hipsters getting wasted.

izzy character stupid - Dude, back up off my girl. Now that this Gizzie nonsense is over, hopefully she won’t be stupid anymore

antm tyra freak out - Totally got you covered. Tyra in all of her fierceness.

hey hey you you i don’t like your boyfriend cause he sucks at ping pong - I have like a million hits from that. Seriously. Everyone loves Kelly talking smack.

kisses christmas commercial - definitely gives you that Christmas feeling. Enjoy!

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Blogger, wtf?! I do not appreciate this new thing you implemented. No Other option anymore, only Nicknames, Anonymous  and Blogger profiles can comment now.

I am a frequent commenter on many Blogger sites, so I made a Blogger profile, so they know who I am when I comment. It links back to here, but still, TOTAL HASSEL.

YOU LOSE BLOGGER.

WORDPRESS FTW. 

I have no interesting title for today. Sorry.

Yesterday I worked 11 hours. It was a rough day with my little two year old and 3 month old. I was exhausted by the time I left at 7:15pm. If I didn’t have to drive home on 94 and have to fear dying by semi truck, I would have been knocked out. I spent my Friday watching Grey’s dvds, catching up on NaBlaaaaaaMo! blogs and eating some yummy pizza. I fell asleep by 10:30 with the television on and woke up this morning at 11:30. I have to say it was awesome. I needed the sleep and the relaxing night. How was your Friday?

Tonight I will be going out. Hopefully, tomorrow I will have another edition of What Not to do in the Club? Maybe? Hopefully. That was pretty entertaining. Everyone will be dancing and I will furiously typing away on my little Blackberry Pearl trying to document all the insanity for blog material tomorrow! Okay, not really. I doubt I would ever take notes.

If you are a television addict, like myself, you are probably wondering how many more episodes of you favorite television shows are left due to the Writers Strike. You prayers are answered. Here is a list of shows with how many episodes are left. You are welcome.

Now onto the filler. I’ll post up links every now and then. Today we have Chicago blogs.

Berg With Fries

Big Time Fancy

D-blogged

Free and Flawed

Mostly Certain

Rachel Skirts

Any other Chicago bloggers out there who read this? Know any others? Comment with their links!

P.S. I loved reading all your theme song answers!

Today is day 5 of NaBloPoMo. My head is filled with themes, servers, redirects and all that ridiculous stuff so I’m resorting to a bullet point entry.

+ I hope you guys found me over here on my BRAND NEW DOMAIN! YAY! Comment and say hi!

+ I have a temporary theme up right now. It’s pink and brown and cute. I’m working out web design right now so hopefully I will have a BRAND NEW DESIGN! to unveil one of these days.

+ I’m trying to figure out where to put my stat counter and all that since I no longer have the included blog stats feature on wordpress.com since moving. I have no idea where it goes. If you know, drop a line!

+ I wasn’t very productive today on my day off, because I was fiddling with my server and blog all day. I was so determined to get it up and running so I literally have spent all day doing so. I can’t be patient, I’m one of those people who have to have things done RIGHT THIS SECOND once they have decided on something.

+ Thank you to The Fool. He was going to set everything up for me until I got all impatient and had to see if I could do it myself. I completely appreciate the offer!

+ I went shopping yesterday for jeans and tights. My boyfriend thought I was crazy buying 6 or 7 pairs of tights but, dude, I’m totally set for the cold Chicago will try to kill me with soon enough.

+ The time change thing has got me all screwed up.

+ Since this entry does nothing but ramble, I’ll leave you with some pretty things. Here’s one of my favorite artists: Audrey Kawasaki. Also, here is her blog. Her work is amazing and I would kill to own one of her pieces or even a print!

Waking up after going out the night before is always rough for me. I worked like 10 hours yesterday and then went out with my boyfriend. I don’t really drink either. Can someone please tell me why I feel like I’m hungover?! My head feels like it weighs a million pounds. Not fair. I don’t deserve the hangover feeling when I’m not even hungover. My body obviously hates me. Obviously.

Did you hear? I’m official now. I am the proud new owner of some webspace and my own shiny domain. (This is where I would probably link you to it*, but it’s down right now, some ridiculous nonsense about changing over name servers or something.) Of course, all it really is now is just redirecting to my blog, but once I get everything up and going, it’s probably going to be the most amazing thing you’ve ever seen in your life. That’s right. IN YOUR LIFE. Okay, not really, because I have no idea what I am doing when it comes to constructing websites.

So all you fabulous owners of sites that host your blog, want to help a girl out? At least point me in the right direction? Are you really going to leave a poor girl wandering aimlessly around the internet? Seriously. You know what a dangerous place it is!

P.S. I’m going to see American Gangster tonight.

* - Okay, I had to do it. Hopefully, it will be back up soon.