The cursor of Microsoft Word blinks demandingly at me from the glaringly white background. It waits for me to write something profound… PROFOUND! There I wrote profound. I win at life now.

Blogging is hard. Well, blogging is hard when your blog platform is unruly and defiant. Previously when you came to this blog you were visiting a site powered by Joomla, a horrible CSS nightmare of coding that was beyond my feeble understanding. All of my posts up to this point went through a process like this:

First, I write the article in Microsoft Word and include formatting notes such as “awesome picture will be positioned on the left here for people to gaze upon with joyful glee”. OK so maybe it was more like “pic on left” but I can embellish now that I am looking back on it all.

Next, I would hand the article and photos over for posting. You see, I have zero HTML or CSS coding knowledge. I am just not that particular kind of geek, although I think it would really come in handy and I am saddened by the fact that I am too lazy to learn it.

My husband, a.k.a. article poster (for lack of a better job title) would then confer with me to be sure that everything was going according to plan while also adding in a few awesome features here and there. For example: the ability to view another website here on my blog from within my article. I am totally not that talented and thankful that someone around here is, or my blog would look as if monkeys had established it.

Adobe Photoshop is a program I have very limited knowledge of as well. I took an instructional class in college that utilized Adobe Photoshop CS2 and barely learned enough to grab my A and get on with my life. These days I am lucky to remember the thirty buttons needed to select a damn brush let alone edit anything. For these reasons my article poster is also my Photoshop slave as well. I like to be the backseat driver to the Photoshop process. I say how I want it while supervising the art direction, and then the Photoshop slave delivers it.

Inevitably there would be multiple problems during this posting process as my article poster was not fully versed in the coding languages needed either. Google is a wonderful thing when you need to learn things on your own and fast. Sometimes simply getting text to properly wrap around a photo would drive us both batty. So after several hours had gone by, we both suffered from raging headaches, and a few (non breakable) objects had been thrown about in sheer frustration, a beautifully polished article would appear! End process and await the rinse and repeat cycle.

The above detailed process is the main reason why you have not heard from me in nearly two years. My husband was wrapped up in “real work” and had no time for this lengthy and frustrating process. I was simply beginning to seethe hatred toward the article editor for being mean to me. For that, I am so very sorry.

The other reason you haven’t heard from me in nearly two years? I have been battling a horrible nerve injury in both of my feet and frankly it has been a real struggle to keep a good hold on my sunny disposition. You likely would not have wanted me to be writing all this time for it would have been tainted with the horrible pain that keeps me from walking properly. I cannot guarantee that it still won’t rear its ugly head from time to time, but surely you fans who enjoy my blog will keep me smiling right? I knew you would! Seriously though, I am still going through treatment and hoping for a full recovery before the end of 2012. I’ll keep you posted on that too, when it manages to actually be interesting.

I know it likely wasn’t the best idea in the world to jump into blogging via a platform that neither of us understood, but we were too excited at the time to be dissuaded. Some people have said I am too impulsive and they might be right. Occasionally something good does come of my impulsive desires though, and this blog was one of them. I wasn’t willing to fully bury it after having to admit defeat to the mighty Joomla beast so I let it sleep in a snuggly hibernation state until such time as I could figure out a way to come back to it without wanting to murder it.

Now the blog has been successfully migrated to a new user friendly format (WordPress) that I can manage (mostly) by myself! This means that a slew of new posts, some new surprises, and plenty of fun are all just around the corner. If you stick around, you can rejoice in being the first group to enjoy it all. I have many evil plans to see through to fruition that you simply do not want to miss!

Now you know where I’ve been, where were you?!