That's a Lot of #$% Snow!!!!!!!

I had to take time from my fabric designing......

to show you guys who aren't in New England just what all the hoopla is about.

Now, remember.....

This time last week I was surrounded by palm trees and balmy weather.

This is what the view from my house was Saturday morning, BEFORE the most recent dumping of 12" of this white crap.

The first picture is the view from my front door.

Notice how there aren't any footprints in the snow down the path?????

That's because I was staying inside!!!!

You can see that the snow is piled up against the glass of my storm door.

Let me show you the view from my family room.

That's right, ladies and gentlemen.....

THAT'S ALL SNOW!!!!!

This isn't some mound that was thrown there during shoveling.

THAT'S JUST SNOW, PUT THERE BY MOTHER NATURE.

Here ya go, 

look out the other side of the room.

That's the view towards the sliding doors in my dining room.

below is the view looking at my neighbors 6 foot high fence that is sitting on an 18" high stone retaining wall.

Soooooo.....

if you do the math correctly,

that makes the top of the fence 7.5 feet high.

This is when I'm really really really really glad that I moved into a condominium.

My dentists office just called to see if I wanted to reschedule my appointment.

Lots of folks can't get out yet

BUT I'M ALL CLEARED OUT so I have to go to the dentist.......

@#$%

Not my favorite thing to do.

On a completely different note.

The woman who designed my blog emailed me and accused me of bullying her.

I was very careful not to include her name in my rant.

I felt that my blog post was just a consumer's response to what I perceived to be a bad service.

So I have a question for the class.

Was my last post a case of bullying?

I didn't even name her name.

Please leave your comments in the comments section.

'Cuz, that's why it's called the comments section!

On that note,

Latah, Gatah

Betsy's Rant #1762

People who don't live up to their word drive me 

nuts!!!!!

I'm not going to mention any names.....

but

I paid a blog designer for a blog design, 

'cuz

that's what blog designers are supposed to do.....

After lots of back and forth, I finally got her to do what I wanted.

She was not the easiest to work with, and she did some strange stuff.....

like posting the new design before we had it all worked out.

Soooooo.....

while it was under design, it could be seen.

That's like going to a party, and having the hairdresser do a foil wrap for your color right there in the middle of the host's living room.

I was not amused.

But I kept my calm, and worked with her till it was what I wanted.

She kept some of the images of the fonts used, in her Photobucket account.

She wouldn't let me have them.

She wanted control of them.

I asked her what would happen if she let her account lapse???????

She assured me that that would NEVER HAPPEN!!!!!

Soooooooo.....

Guess what happened!!!!!!

Can you guess?????

Give it a try.....

THAT'S RIGHT!!!!!

SHE LET IT LAPSE!!!!!

So,

everywhere that there was a word, such as the menu at the top of the blog,

and my links to twitter and Facebook and Pinterest

WAS REPLACED BY A PHOTOBUCKET ICON

Soooooo.....

I had a line of these marching across my blog just below my header.

And then they were sprinkled throughout my side bar.

Amy, from Maison Decor, called me a few days ago to alert me to this situation.

She had used the same designer, and her blog had the same problem.

When we clicked on over to the designers website.....

GUESS WHAT SHE HAD POSTED!!!!!

Can you guess?????

Her blog design business is on hiatus until further notice.

Sooooo

Amy wrote her an email, writing to the contact address she had listed,

and of course SHE DIDN'T RESPOND.

Sooooooo.....

today I replaced the Photobucket icons with the best I could do using Blogger's template.

IT LOOKS CRAPPY,

 but at least my navigation menu at the top of my blog is visible again.

I Googled how to add buttons for following through Facebook and Twitter and Pinterest.

I feel very smart for following how to do it.

So I did it.

BUT IT LOOKS CRAPPY.

I need to find a new blog designer.

If anyone knows one that they like, please leave a comment.

I'm sure that some of my readers have used the same designer that I did, and have experienced the same issue.

Sooooooo

after not writing for a few weeks,

what do I do?????

Do I write about design?????

NO I DON'T.

I just use you guys for a venting platform.

I NEEDED TO VENT MY SPLEEN!!!!!

Whew,

well, now I feel better.

I'm back in Massachusetts, and the snow is halfway up my windows.

(while I was gone, one of my bookshelves gave way.....)

I left Flerida yesterday.

why why why why why???????

I know my parents appreciate my return,

but...

JEESH!!!!!

On that note,

Latah, Gatah

(she even screwed up my signature)

See?????

It's the cursed Photobucket icon.