Website Changing!

I did something I would NEVER recommend anyone else doing. I deleted all my blog files without making sure the backup I had was the most recent. So, I’ve lost most of my photos and ALL of the design work I’d spent the last year tweaking. It took a long time to get it just the way I wanted it and it’s gone.

But, I’m taking that as a sign from the universe that, as the rest of my life has changed, so should the blog. I’m playing with the design and I have to admit I think it’s kind of crappy right now, but I’m playing with the idea of the symbol of the Phoenix.

Like the Phoenix, I’m rising from the ashes of what has been an incredibly shitty past 5 years, excuse my french. But it has been. I’ve been mistreated horribly by someone who had vowed to care and protect me. I’ve had death in the family like nobody’s business and I’ve faced homelessness and poverty dead in the eye. But I made it. And I’m stronger and better for it. And I truly believe life is getting better. Maybe it’s the friends and family that rally around me. Maybe it’s realizing I made it and am ok. Maybe it’s because I made a choice – a CHOICE – to focus on what was going right in my life instead of what was going wrong. But tonight, I’m in a place of peace and contentment and looking forward to what the rest of the year will bring me.