So here I am, finally!

I’ve spent the past few weeks migrating this site over to Wordpress. I can’t tell you exactly what made me do it. Considering Wordpress has been out about five years now, I’d say I put up a pretty damn good resistance.

I think the final straw was the fact that my Movable Type dashboard never wanted to load at work. I know it wasn’t blocked because we are in a “go anywhere on the web” group in my department (that, and I have access to the filter so I can see what’s being blocked). It would take forever to load the sign on screen and if I managed to put in my information, it would take forever to load and either time itself out or log itself in after close to a half an hour.

Not that I need to be blogging from work, but you get my drift.

Plus, the themes for Wordpress are endless and there are some gorgeous ones out there. And while I had gotten pretty adept at porting them over to Movable Type, it just became too much work. Partly because porting is work in itself and partly because the new template nesting system that was released with MT 4.0 is an ever-loving pain in the ass. And the templates for Wordpress are just phenomenally simple. And I love that you can edit them right in the dashboard.

Finally, there was the built-in protected post functionality. I’ve been on the web long enough for the anonymity I started with to have pretty much disappeared. I wanted to be able to protect some of my posts when necessary so that everyone’s prying eyes weren’t privy to certain things I wanted to talk about. And Wordpress made that easy.

Overall, it was the ease of use and functionality that made me switch. Initially, I avoided it because the WP installation only let you have one blog per install, where MT let you have multiple blogs in one install. That was nice because I had built my entire site around three different blogs (two were more of a CMS than a blog). But looking back, I realized that I was spending a lot of time keeping those blogs up and part of what I wanted was consolidation. I needed to bring everything together in one area, including other sites like Live Journal and Vox, because I was tired of keeping up with them. Plus, the content was stale.

So I give you the new and improved website. Powered by a new CMS with a new layout (which, truthfully, I already hate!). I’ve deleted all my old entries because I wanted to start fresh. There’s also some new content (Movie ratings, books I’m reading, a new 101 things list) and I am making a solemn, solemn vow to myself to post more, comment more on others blog’s (because I’ve been a lurker for too long) and actively keep this site more up to date. I’ve just been wanting to post and post away for months now but because I’m such a perfectionist freak, I couldn’t do it until I wiped the slate clean.

Consider it done!

You shouldn’t have to change your RSS feeds - I did it for you (for the 18 that subscribe)! Also, I’m looking for new people to read, so if you have some interesting sites, please feel free to suggest them. And look around, tell me what you think. (I need to test out the comments! LOL)

This is my fresh start.

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On a side note, a quick update of my summer. We’ve had people in town staying with us for visits every other week since I returned from Hawaii in June. While it’s always nice to have visitors, Steve and I (and the dog!) are exhausted and looking forward to having our house back.

But that’s not happening yet! On Friday, we discovered that there was a leak from our air conditioning that seeped out of the intake vent into our living and between the lovely floating laminate flooring and the concrete slab. What we thought was going to be a quick fix by pulling up a few pieces of laminate and replacing them ended up being a homeowner’s insurance claim that results in them replacing our entire living room, dining room and hallway floors. Because there was mold under the foam padding on the floor and behind the baseboards. Not a lot but enough! And because they don’t make the type of flooring anymore we have to make sure it matches throughout the entire house. Did I mention I love my flooring and I hate construction crews in my house?

And then Steve and I have to leave on Friday evening for an impromptu trip back to Pennsylvania. A rather close uncle of his died so we have a funeral attend. I hate how, as you get older, family reunions always tend to be in the forms of sicknesses or funerals.

Finally, we have more visitors coming at the end of the month! All I’m saying is that they better hope our floors are done, otherwise, they’ll be put to work! LOL

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