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Moving Is Such Hard Work!

Karen · 12 Comments

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When my children were growing up, we moved 17 times in 5 years. I was a divorced mother of three trying to make ends meet. A lot of the time, that meant moving to a cheaper place, or moving in with friends for a while. We learned to pack up quickly and how to load the car (No, I didn’t have a truck) so that we could make the least number of trips possible to get the job done. Sometimes I did all myself, and sometimes I had help. It was always easier with help.

Moving my blog from Blogspot to a hosted website has been a HUGE job. And don’t think I have done it all myself. I don’t know enough to do it all by myself. To start off, Gayla from MomGadget has given me great encouragement. We “met” through the internet a couple of years ago. She was one of six women who were blogging on a group site called “Seven Babes A Blogging”, which is now defunct. They had one guest blogger each month, hence the Seven in the name. I was the guest blogger over there for the month of December, 2007. Just the fact that they let me blog with them was a huge encouragement to me, as I felt like I was playing with the big girls by doing that.

Then in November of 2009, I ran into her again, (online, of course) when she was looking for writers at MomGadget. I signed up and, and that sort of opened the door for me to ask her some questions, and before you know it, we were getting FabGrandma.com built. Gayla gave me advice on how to go about purchasing a domain name and how to get it hosted (I had no idea where to start). She installed my blog and Studio Press Lifestyle Theme you see here (the theme is the how the blog looks to you, purty, huh?). And she did it all in about two days. I was soooo impressed with her service. Thank you so much, Gayla.

After Gayla got through with the initial software installation and configuration for me, FabGrandma.com was all ready for me to move in. So, I got here, and I couldn’t believe how much room I have over here! At the old site, I only had one “room”, much like living in my travel trailer. There was only so much I could do over there. Not that I need a mansion, you know, I just wanted more room to move around, more places to store my ideas. And boy do I have that here! Just look at all those pages and linky things! But, it still had some “decorating” and remodeling to do. And I had no clue what to do or where to start!

It’s not that I didn’t know what I wanted. Oh, no! I have been thinking about and planning my new website for a couple of years. I knew EXACTLY what I wanted it to look like and what I wanted it to do. I just didn’t know how to do it. So, the next step was to just start. I worked on it for almost a week, many hours a day (good thing I am unemployed right now.) And I got it looking more and more like I wanted it to. All that work involved teaching myself some basic html, from HTML Basic. It’s like trying to learn German a phrase at a time.

At the end of the week, I was at a place where I had gone as far as I could go, but it still didn’t look like I wanted it to look. As I was sitting here wondering what the heck I was going to do about it, I remember a young man I had “met” online a couple of years ago. Brandon lives with his lovely wife in North Carolina. He has been reading my blog for a while, and has corresponded with me on several occasions because he is interested in the fulltime RV’er lifestyle. I emailed him and offered to pay him to do some work for me on here, with a list of what I needed done, and asked him how much he would charge me to do the work. I knew from reading his blog that he was looking for a way to earn some extra money, and I wanted to help.

Imagine my surprise when he emailed me back, and said that someone had done him a kind deed recently, and he would do this thing for me as a “pay it forward” kind of thing. What a nice guy! And thank you, Brandon, because the work you did was exactly what I needed done. You should go into the web design business.

So, here it is, brand spanking new! I think the majority of the work is done. I am just giddy with excitement. Take the grand tour and let me know what you think!

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  1. Brandon says

    January 27, 2010 at 11:43 pm

    You’re so welcome. I’m glad I could help!

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    • Fab Grandma says

      January 28, 2010 at 9:47 am

      Brandon, I could not have done this without you. You are the best!

      Reply
  2. Marilyn says

    January 28, 2010 at 1:43 am

    WOW You did it.

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    • Fab Grandma says

      January 28, 2010 at 9:45 am

      You know, Marilyn, I am glad I did it, and glad I was able to find people to help me. You helped a lot, too, with your suggestions. I really appreciate that!

      Reply
  3. Debbie Bonds says

    January 28, 2010 at 7:42 am

    Wow Karen – awesome!! Love your writing, your site and how you have made friends through cyberspace – me being one of them! And Brandon – what a great guy to help you out.

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    • Fab Grandma says

      January 28, 2010 at 9:44 am

      Thank you Debbie!

      Reply
  4. Judy Bell says

    January 28, 2010 at 8:19 am

    Karen, Is there a way to “follow” your blog without involving facebook?

    Reply
    • Fab Grandma says

      January 28, 2010 at 9:43 am

      If you look up at the top right hand corner, there is a little RSS icon that now says “Follow Me”. I am working on finding another way, but for now, that is what I have.

      Reply
  5. sallie (FullTime-Life) says

    January 29, 2010 at 12:32 am

    Love what you’ve done to the place! Got your new address saved on my google reader. Good job.

    Reply
    • Fab Grandma says

      January 29, 2010 at 7:01 pm

      Thank you so much! It has been quite a job.

      Reply
  6. Gayla says

    January 29, 2010 at 10:21 pm

    Karen, you look mah-vo-lus in your new digs! Looks like your feeling right at home. 🙂 So glad I could be a part of the move 🙂

    Reply
    • Fab Grandma says

      January 29, 2010 at 10:43 pm

      Why, thank you, Gayla! I am getting there.

      Reply

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