The Social Frog

Posted By The Social Frog on February 1, 2010

I feel terrible, not happy with Wordpress for sure. Not happy that I most likely have lost all my readers and fellow bloggers since mid January.

Wordpress is the reason I have a mess in the first place, why my blog still looks decked out for Christmas and why I can’t do much of anything but post, and posting I am trying to avoid while I fix this nasty little mess.

In short, I am done with Wordpress for now, moving on folks. I have found Wordpress does not import or export all of my posts and this is a MAJOR problem every time I need to upgrade to the latest version of Wordpress, so I am done loosing my writing once and for all.

So please bare with me while I am fixing this, I wanted to be DONE by February, well it is now almost the 2nd. What I am having to do is copy and paste EVERY post I’ve ever written into a document before I move on.

My web address will stay the same www.thesocialfrog.combut I am not so sure that my RSS Feed will continue to be the same, so a day before I “move” I will write a quick post and leave it up for one night letting everyone know I have finished. So when the time comes please make sure you are still getting my feed and then blogging will go on,lol.

I want to be done this week…we shall see!

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Posted By The Social Frog on January 4, 2010

Every time I log into my Wordpress Dashboard I always have “Wordpress (Whatever Number) is available…Please update now!!!!

It gets annoying when you have to manually update it on your host server. So I’ve been holding out for a while now. It is now up to Wordpress 2.9. Will Wordpress 3.0 come out as soon as I upgrade? Most likely.

So sorry if it gets really messy around here for a few days or so, maybe longer, things always go opposite as planned when it comes to Wordpress & me.

Don’t get me wrong, I love Wordpress but I do think there are to many updates to often which is a pain if you do it all yourself. Plus I recently got a new laptop and am now working with Windows 7, so I have a lot going on.

I know Christmas is over and my blog has not changed in a while. I have been trying to hold out as long as possible and now is the time to start fresh, so don’t mind the mess.

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Posted By The Social Frog on January 3, 2010

21 hours is really a long drive, especially if you try to drive it straight through. But who in their right mind would do that you might ask…Well my hubby of course!

It’s always an uncomfortable drive, not much space and 3 dogs in the back seat and me who can’t seem to stay awake anymore on long drives, I have been “trained” to fall asleep to the lul of the car.

So this usually leaves hubby with the driving. I honestly don’t intend on sleeping all the way, it just happens. On the way to Maine we planned that I would take over some of the driving so hubby could get some sleep as well, the best of plans seem to always get changed though.

We ended up in a blizzard. No way I was going to drive in it, I was all for stopping for the night. We tried to find something open, nothing available because every other human on the road was getting off of it. So that meant we were trekking on. Let’s just say I kept my eyes closed for a good 6 hours, not wanting to see anymore cars off the road or crumpled from an accident. We made safe though.

So coming home of course I am sick as a dog and drinking Nyquil to try and survive. I knew what we were in for, a long haul home and the start of the trip was to be in the middle of a snow storm, perfect…

I tried to stay awake as long as I could, for moral support for hubby. Around 9am I was zonked and did not sleep the night before, Nyquil in hand. I slept & slept & slept. Before I knew it I had been sleeping for like 10 hours or something close to it.

It is now Sunday morning, 12:30am and I can see my poor, sweet hubby getting road weary and I watch his eyes and I wonder how much longer he can handle driving. I offer to drive. He was not so sure about it since he usually always drives while I sleep and being sick he was afraid I would fall asleep. I was more worried he would fall asleep driving.

At 2am I took over driving. We had about 6.5 hours left to drive. I drive for just about 5 hours before I started feeling a little tired. Hubby had gotten some good sleep and he took over for the last hour & a half. I am glad I was able to actually help drive this time.

We made it home around 8am, ate breakfast and took a nap. It is nice to be home but I really miss my family.

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Posted By The Social Frog on January 2, 2010

It’s hard to believe that it is time to go back home. It feels like we just got to Maine but it always feels that way, never enough time.

I have had an amazing time here with all of my family. So many of you I did not get to see but really wanted to. I have found it is very hard to visit everyone plus have enough time with immediate family.

A reason for not getting to see everyone as well was because I was sick almost the entire trip and so I missed out on getting to meet a cousins baby and being able to spend more time with my Grandparents.

I did get to go sledding with a lot of my family and it was fun watching Daniel try to snowboard! I don’t think being out in the snow helped my cold any but it was so much fun. Daniel & I sled down Forside Hill together, that was a blast.

Christmas was different but brought back so many memories from growing up, all of my siblings around and my Dad handing out gifts one by one while we all watched the other open. It was fun and I am glad I got to be there with everyone.

I got to meet my sister’s baby Madison who was born in May, she was so cute, a very smiley baby!

I am sad to leave but I know it is time to return home. Lot’s of great memories were made, tons of pictures taken and I look forward to sharing them!

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Posted By The Social Frog on January 1, 2010

Happy New Year to you & yours! I do hope that this coming year is the best!!

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Posted By The Social Frog on December 31, 2009

I have been out of the blogging loop for a little while here. So much has been going on since October.

I am currently on Christmas vacation in Maine, visiting family. The internet has not been my friend since we got here as well.

My blog is a little bit of a mess right now and I can’t do anything about it because I need reliable internet and a few other things.

I am still blogging and have much to share with all of you but it will have to wait till we return back home in a few days.

I am sorry to all of my readers, if I still have any at this point. I will be back and blogging once I return home.

All is well with me aside from being terribly sick and tired, the cold Maine weather will do that to those who are not used to the harsh winters.

As I write this post the snow is gently falling and I am sad that my time with my family is coming to a close. It has been nice and it has been good.

Happy New Years Eve To All!

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Posted By The Social Frog on December 13, 2009

I was lucky to get tickets to go see Holiday Pops at the Jacksonville Symphony.

Over the weekend Daniel & I both got sick, him more so than me, so I was pretty sure we would not end up going.

My hubby being a wonderful guy, even while feeling sick, still took me & I am really glad we went.

I was not sure what to expect as I had never been to a Symphony event around Christmas, always wanted to though.

It was very relaxing, entertaining and a little comical as well. The audience was included in some things during the show which added some fun to it.

The Jacksonville Children’s  Choir sang along with the Symphony as well as an adult choir.

Old Christmas songs as well as new songs filled the evening. There is nothing like going to the Symphony to hear music in a different way. I love how I feel like I am actually immersed in the music.

The night ended with a Christmas son Sing Along which was nice to hear everyone singing and smiling.

A nice ending to a wonderful weekend.

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Posted By The Social Frog on December 11, 2009

We have our Christmas Tree up, it is the smallest tree I’ve had in my life but it fits our Christmas this year.

This Christmas Tree can be planted and can grow up to 15 feet tall! We were food shopping last week at the Whole Foods Market when we saw the tree, it came as a kit, with lights and ornaments!

I would have posted about it sooner but as most of you know when I went to visit my husband overseas in October, I had my camera stolen out of my luggage on my way out of the country he was in.

Happily, today my new digital camera came So now I can take pictures again. The weather has been chilly this past week and I imagine the same for this coming week but we will not get snow, one of the major downsides to living in a state such as Florida.

It has been wonderful having hubby home, we have been doing some fun things since he came home last week. We have attended a Christmas play, saw the Nutcracker ballet last night and this weekend and coming week we have more fun things going on!

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Posted By The Social Frog on December 10, 2009

I honestly have never been to or seen any form of the Nutcracker in my 30 years of life until tonight. My husband had seen it in the past as a child, school functions gave him the opportunity.

When I was young the only kinds of field trips we took were to Apple Orchards and the Plymouth Plantation, the arts were not a big thing for our school I suppose.

As an adult I take great pleasure in all kinds of arts. Tonight we were given the opportunity to go see the Nutcracker Ballet and I was so happy & it was nice that hubby was able to go with me.

It was at the Historical Florida Theatre, downtown Jacksonville. It was actually a lovely old place, our first time there.

We had nice seats, the place was pretty packed as well. There were many families there and kids. At the opening scene I decided to look around and what I saw were happy little kids, smiles as wide as they could be. Magic and wonder filled them.

It was a wonderful performance although we got some what annoyed by some other guests whom thought it was okay to clap for every little thing done on stage which interrupted the performance and made me enjoy it a little less.

I can not say anything bad about the ballet itself, it was done well and I was entertained and I look forward to seeing the Nutcracker again next year, wherever we are.

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Posted By The Social Frog on December 7, 2009

Today my brother Danny is 23! Boy do I feel really, really old!

Happy Birthday!!!!

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