issues

I have issues! Camera issues sleep issues, calendar issues, phone issues, and worst of all… website issues! It must have been the full moon. At least I hope so because the full moon only lasts one day and these issues need to cease! Let us address each issue, one at a time.

Camera – I had complete short-term memory loss on how to work my own camera yesterday morning when I took the photos for tomorrow’s post. A small portion of the problem could have been that it was about 4 AM when they were taken and that was after I had gone to the grocery store to get the coconut I could have sworn I had in my pantry. Obviously another memory loss issue on the coconut! One happy side note…when you shop at 3:30 AM, there is only you, the cleaning people, and the stocking staff in the store… kinda awesome!

Sleep – Already noted above, I cannot sleep! I fall asleep fine, but if something wakes me up, that’s it – I am up! Hate that! I really and truly hate that!!!

Calendar – Even though I have an iPad and a MacBook Pro – I have not gotten on board and started using iCal. I still use a day-timer and lately I have been really messing up with it. Writing down appointments on the wrong day or even the wrong month. Or marking out time for an upcoming trip but then not seeing the line marking through the days and making plans, in-town, when in fact I will be out of town! Why?!

Phone – My antiquated cell phone has been dying a slow and painful death for some time now. It will not hold a charge for more than about 2 hours and, oh so conveniently, the charger that I use in the car, no longer works. That is, not unless I hold the plugged-in phone at a very specific angle and do not move it even a tenth of a millimeter in any direction. So basically, if I sit there with my arm in the air and don’t breathe, we’re all good. But since the point of a car charger is for the phone to charge while you drive about (well, and breathe) – not so good.

Web Site – If you noticed any strange goings-on here this past week, it was due to a “hardware issue on the webserver”. I have no idea what that means, but that is what super nice (and patient) Jonathan, who is my webserver guy, told me. Ever since Sunday, I’ve had long periods of time when I could not access the site. Comments got dropped (sorry Jen and anyone else who left a comment and doesn’t see it there now). More than a dozen pictures from three days’ worth of posts just vanished- I spent about 90 minutes putting those backup. I’ve long had issues with my subscribers not getting email notifications for new posts from me. I thought I corrected it, but the last one that went out yesterday was really messed up.

No more ranting and raving. Tomorrow – it will be time for some cute, easy, and quick Halloween recipes. That is when you will witness the seriously sorry looking 4 AM photos I took.