Hope and Beyond

Yesterday I had a scare of internet proportions ~ I was working away on some freelance stuff ... getting myself in-shape for the very busy and long feeling week. I was sending some emails and all of a sudden, the email quit working ... my password was no longer valid ... not a huge deal, I went to Gmail to try to reset ~ and I got this message that said that my account had been compromised because of suspicious activity (weird) so I reset than went to my home page (which is my, our, beloved blog) and there was nothing there. I'm not even kidding. There was a generic "blogger" page that read: " This blog has been removed. The name (my blog name), is no longer available for use. And that's all she wrote. I refreshed the page a couple times, cause I couldn't believe what I was seeing, but same message every time. I started to panic, and get pretty angry. I mean this is like 5 years of our lives!! Pictures, stories, songs, our lives, just vanished and "removed" from the internet?? How is that possible? and yet it was. I was livid that we could just be "removed" like that. and I was frantic to get the blog back. Of course, there is no "contact us" button, so after some digging I found a forum where all I could do was post a question and hope to heck that someone, anyone would get back to me ... It took about 20 mins (all the while I was not impressed) and then, almost mysteriously, our blog reappeared. Seems no harm done. It does kind of weird me out though. I didn't realize how much I had become attached to our blog, all the things we've shared, stories, pictures, our lives, memories(!!). I am thankful for technology, but it does come with a price. It can be gone in an instant. Vanished. Removed. Almost like death I suppose. I am glad we're back online, up and running and I don't think I'll be taking for granted my "freedom of web-speech" now, anytime soon. Thank you for continuing to read!! Till Next Blog ~ love, a.