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Coming out of my bloggy shell

Posted on March 12, 2010 12:00 am by TheAngelForever

For three years, I have been blogging and never actually stated where I live. This has partially been to protect my children/family. Plus, I’ll be honest, I never really felt the need to come out and say it. Could someone figure it out? No doubt people probably could have narrowed down the part of the country and possibly the state from photos of snow, places we go and so on.

Recently, things have been cropping up that have made me change my tune. The Disney Social Media Moms Celebration got my real name out there. In addition to this, local opportunities have come up and some big plans/projects are in the works. If I do not let places know about my three years of blogging history, it pretty much defeats the purpose of my hard work over the years. Of course, anyone really close to me knew who I was from the start. Will I have my full name on The Angel Forever? Not yet. Again, no real need for that. People that need to know will continue to get that information.

Of course, the timing on this is really good. Recent events in my home state of New York have gotten me very angry. Born and raised in New York, it absolutely disgusts me when I watch the news and see how things are falling apart. Up until now I have stayed quiet about news events, but thanks to coming out of my bloggy shell I can vent, collaborate and work with others to see what more I can do via my blog and beyond.

Right now, my brain is in hyper mode. A recent PTA meeting at my son’s school has me disgusted. Budget cuts, broken political promises and powers that be who do not see how their actions will kill our schools. Ultimately, our children are the ones that will pay the price. You know, the children that are the future of not only New York State, but our country and world.

*sigh* This is a topic that I will definitely be addressing another day. I will be looking to others for advice on where to go with the people from our school, to fight long and hard to save teachers, nurses, art/music and most importantly our school that may be on the chopping block.

So my question to you this week:

If you blog did you come out of your bloggy shell and tell people where you live and why did you this? If you always were upfront did you have any negative experiences with this?

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Thanks to Kailani at An Island Life for starting this fun for Friday. Please be sure to head over to her blog to say hello and sign the MckLinky there if you are participating.

Aloha #90

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Houston. . . we had a BIG bloggy problem

Posted on March 9, 2010 12:49 pm by TheAngelForever

Welcome back to TheAngelForever.com If you tried to stop by here over the last 31 hours, you probably noticed there was a problem going on. When TechyDad and I woke up yesterday, I went to check something on my blog. Much to my horror, my website was down. I went to TechyDad’s blog and nada there either. We were getting 500 Error messages about the server.

As time went by, we contacted Arvixe, the company that is our webhost. No real answers, lack of time schedule on the fix and on and on throughout the day. By noon, they finally admitted it was a hardware fail and were trying to fix things on the server. Then we noticed that data was not there. Thank goodness, TechyDad backs up our information nightly. The worst case scenario would have been me losing my Betty Crocker post (could redo if needed).

I had people that were questioning what was going on, so TechyDad set up something on the URLs of our blogs to let people know we were aware of the problem. We updated and put up a clock. This is what was here if you looked recently (click to enlarge):

Thankfully, we are up and running again and looking for a new host. We understand that things happen, but there is no excuse with not telling paying customers what is going on and updating things regularly – especially when we are talking over 24 hours of down time.

With a day lost, I will be trying to play even more catch up, so please bear with me as I settle back in. If you have any suggestions on web hosting companies please let us know. TechyDad is in charge of that and knows what he needs for our websites and his work.

Thank you again to everyone for understanding the technical difficulties that were beyond our control.

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Rainbow Brite is back

Posted on March 1, 2010 11:29 am by TheAngelForever

Flashback to the 80’s and what toys do you remember? A few that crop up in my mind immediately are Care Bears, Pound Puppies, He-Man, Cabbage Patch Kids, Nintendo and of course the very colorful Rainbow Brite who was created by Hallmark (a little known fact).

Did you know that Rainbow Brite is back for her 2010 debut?

Yes, you read that right. In February 2010, the new revamped Rainbow Brite doll collection was released in Toys R’ Us and Target stores. Availability, free games/activities and more can be checked at http://www.rainbowbrite.com. Once again you can see Rainbow Brite and her two loyal friends Moonglow and Tickled Pink, and their companion horse friends Starlite, Shimmer and Sunriser.

Once again Rainbow Brite is back empowering children to use their imaginations for adventure she spreads her message of courage, kindness and hope.

Yes, I have two little boys, but I am still happy to share a piece of my childhood with them. Thanks to Mom Select, my family and friends received Rainbow Brite CD packs that include Rainbow Brite games and activities.

Be sure to head over and check out the 2010 version of Rainbow Brite and friends. There is nothing like a little nostalgia from your childhood to make you smile.

Disclosure:I did not receive any compensation for this post. MomSelect supplied me with the Rainbow Brite CD packs for my family and friends. All opinions are 100% mine.

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New found flying fears

Posted on February 19, 2010 12:00 am by TheAngelForever

I have a confession to make. . .

In recent years, I have started to fear flying in airplanes. I think it started after our trip to Disney World in May and intensified when we flew to, and especially from, the Disney Social Media Moms Celebration.

On our way home from Disney World in May, we had a rocky landing. Turbulence was bad through most of the flight. My stomach sunk down to my feet many times. As someone that likes wild rides, this hit me hard. Never before did I feel each and every move of the plane like I did on that flight. I never said anything about my fears because I did not want my boys to hear anything.

Leading up to our trip to the conference, I started to have nightmares about flying. It worried me that it may be trying to tell me something given the huge storm we had to fly around/through/over. I ignored them and we flew down to Disney on the 6th. That flight was pretty uneventful. I kept busy sitting with NHL. We looked out the window and wrote stories together.

Coming home, I sat with JSL. He did not want to do much aside from look at books and rest on me. My mind was able to think about every move that I felt the plane make. As we were about 30 miles out from home, it got really rocky thanks to the strong winds (darn winter flying). The plane moved up and down, left and right over and over again. It was worse than any ride we had done at Disney World. Perhaps it was sitting in the last row, but it scared the you know what out of me!

Once we got off the plane, I was SO happy to be back on the ground. I am so glad that we can take the train to BlogHer and not worry about air travel for a little while. So my question to you this week:

Do you like to travel by airplane? Either way, what do you do to keep your mind off of things once you are up in the air?

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Thanks to Kailani at An Island Life for starting this fun for Friday. Please be sure to head over to her blog to say hello and sign the MckLinky there if you are participating.

Aloha #87