I Think I Have a Migraine

If you've stopped by my blog in the past day or two, you may have noticed something fishy going on.

About a year ago I had decided to make the move from Blogger to a self-hosted WordPress site. Most people I talked to recommend it, they said that if I was planning to stick at this blogging gig it would be worth while. I hesitated for quite some time, mainly because of the cost. I am a true penny-pinching German Mennonite, and I simply could not justify spending that much money on a hobby that doesn't bring much revenue in. That is, until my sister told me she found a promo where the first year of web hosting + a domain name would only cost $12. (This is typically around $144, so the saving was huge!) You never know if you like something until you try it, and at $12, it was worth the risk.

I was pleased, for the most part, with WordPress, but I certainly did not make use of most of the extra features. So when I got a renewal notice from my hosting company, and the total for another year was a fat $144, I decided it's not worth it. I packed up my bags, and left town.

And now I have a migraine.

I wasn't able to simply transfer all of the content from one blog to another. I Googled for hours, trying to find some way to easily move the blog, photos, comments, etc. But I got nowhere.

For the past few nights I stayed up far too late, hitting copy + paste, and moving each post one by one. It appeared as though everything transfer well, except the comments. (I would forever love you if you would go back to each post you may have commented on, and rewrite your thoughts. :))

Today I forever closed down my WordPress site, and my migraine got worse. All of the pictures are gone! But it's just a blog, and the words are still there. It's not the end of the world... I'll just keep preaching this to myself for a while.

All of this to say, if there are a lot of broken links, missing photos, etc. I'm sorry, and I'm working on it.

Thanks for still following along, regardless of the mess.