It’s All New, And Shiny, And Awesome, And I Love It.

Oh. My. God.

Do you see that? Or that? Or THAT?

Have you noticed any of the new, shiny, and incredibly amazing changes made on my blog?

No?

Then take a look around!

Last night I received an email from my oldest and dearest friend Leslie Poston. [And by oldest, I mean we have been best friends for 23 years now.] Anyway, just as I was about to go to sleep at a respectable hour, I received an email from Leslie, telling me to go ‘check my blog’.

Now, as some of you know, Leslie, has always been and will always be the technical brains behind my blog. She is a master of all things HTML, CSS, and PHP, and whatever other codey speak is required for smart people instinctively know how to build, manage and operate websites.

I knew ‘check your blog’ meant that Leslie went ahead and made some changes to this here site, but I NEVER expected all of THIS!

I have to admit, when I first looked at my blog, it was in the middle of being altered so I kind of freaked out. I couldn’t get over how WIDE my new page looked. And how it filled my whole computer screen. I didn’t know what else to expect. And, I wasn’t sure I was even going to like the changes. I mean my blog has essentially been the same for the past Four Years!

However, I have complete trust in Leslie and all of her mad website building skills. So, instead of continuing to freak out, I kept chanting ‘Change Is Good’ while I waited patiently to see the final outcome. [And by waited patiently, I mean I kept hitting the refresh button every five seconds to look for updates, chain smoking cigarettes, biting off my fingernails, and incessantly twirling my hair.]

After hitting refresh for the billionth time, I saw my Photos come to life in the Flickr Strip located in the left sidebar as opposed to the bottom of my blog. And I liked it.

When I noticed how much I liked the font? My face lit up. Of course, I quickly realized it probably wasn’t normal for any person become to that excited over a type of font. And that I should immediately cease and desist doing the Happy Dance.

But when I saw all of the social bookmarking buttons at the bottom of each blog post, and how shiny and pretty they look? I squealed for delight on the top of my lungs. I hovered my mouse over every single icon, and shouted with glee the names of each bookmark.

I was utterly satisfied right then and there with all of those changes, but Leslie wasn’t finished.

The next thing I knew, My Bloglog and My Blogcatalog window thingy’s appeared. All of my archives were neatly stored in a Drop Down Box Format. And My Left Side Bar never looked so glorious.

As I was basking in the glow of my shiny new blog I noticed something was askew.

And that’s when something terrible happened.

Something beyond tragic.

Something that would devastate every single blogger I know.

I noticed something VERY important was missing.

0 comments

WHAT?

See that?

0 comments

There are NO COMMENTS?
That’s Impossible!
I have Four Years worth of comments!
WHERE ARE ALL OF MY COMMENTS?

Yeah, um….

As I raced back to Facebook fully prepared to loose my sh*t, Leslie, in all of her infinite wisdom had already written an email explaining why, where, and WHAT was happening with the comments.

Leslie: “It will SAY you have no comments for a little while. Don’t panic, you just have a lot and the application is all WHAT THE FUCK, WOMAN NOW I HAVE A MIGRAINE, right now 😉 Hopefully you wont get NEW ones for a few minutes, lol.

WHEW!

And then something else mind-blowing happened.

Something that was [and IS] Totally Super AMAZING!

Not only did all four years worth of comments re-appear, complete with the avatars of all my lovely readers faces…but something even better happened!

Something I wouldn’t have imagined in my wildest dreams…

There is a Mother Fucking ‘LIKE’ Button!

Yeah, that’s right.

Just like Facebook.

HELLO!

I have my very own ‘Like’ button – next to every single comment that is made on this blog! And I can click on as many as I want, WITHOUT getting banned from Facebook!

[There is also a reply button in the comments, and tons of cool functions I have yet to learn, but I cat even focus on that when I HAVE MY VERY OWN LIKE BUTTON! I mean forget that every time someone refreshes my page the header and my flickr strip change, LIKE MAGIC.  I’ll  pay more attention to those later! Right now? I’m way too consumed with my Like button! ]

Seriously, the first time I clicked on the ‘Like’ button next to a comment?
I practically passed out.

I would like to publicly thank my 23-year ‘BESTIE’ for being so FABULOUS. Because aside from the time she gave me ‘My Very Own Leg Lamp’, this ‘Blog Overhaul’ –  is The Best Hanukah/Christmas Gift anyone ever gave me.

[Leslie, I love you. And even though you are my Monkee, you will always be my ‘Album’.]

Now come on people. Let’s leave comments and LIKE them!