Whereby I Nearly Poop My Pants

Let me begin by saying that I have neither finesse nor patience for computers. If it isn't super-duper simple to figure out, I'm not going to pick it up. My mind doesn't bend that way. I can guide a person through eight sessions of grief counseling or perform a mediation, but don't ask me to understand how the internet works. I just like to push a button and hope for the best.

I am determined to post every day for this month. NaBloPoMo has become very important to me, a goal to be accomplished. Yesterday I woke up early to start my post. I already knew what I was going to write and even did a special photo session to get the pictures I wanted. Everything went smoothly until I tried to dowload the pictures. They wouldn't attach. My screen would say that it had been a successful download, but they would never appear in my screen. This had happened before, so I just decided to wait and try again. I tried again every hour from noon to midnight last night and nothing worked. I was able to post something -- a three sentence post that was merely a place holder for what I had wanted to post -- but I started to think, "What if Blogger is broken forever and I won't ever be able to get picture up? My poor mother; she only checks in for the pictures."

In my craziness to try and get my post accomplished yesterday I even uploaded my photos to photobucket, thinking that if I inserted them as a URL (this is a techy as I get) it would work. No. Go. Okay, so then I made the decision to switch my Blogger account to Beta Blogger. I thought this would just be in instant thing, but NO -- it might take a couple of days, leaving my account suspended in the internet blogosphere, not available for me to access! My decision was irreversable, and I nearly had a panic attack. What if everything was lost?

The molten ball of freak-out in my stomach did not go away until I logged into my beta account this morning and found everything there as it was. I was even able to upload the photos in record time. After reading several blogs, including Fussy, the founder of NaBloPoMo, a lot of people were having problems with blogger yesterday and weren't even able to publish anything. It was great to see that several others had reactions like mine and switched to Beta in a blogging frenzy.

Maybe I'm not such a freak after all.

Amy