This has nothing to do with running or eating healthy. Just a post to vent…..So my little sister came over and spent the night. She always does, what 15 year old doesn’t want to leave her parents house every chance she gets? This is not the problem. When I was out running errands, my 6 year old cousin came over. When I saw her wet hands and asked where the water came from, she replied “I don’t know.” Later, I saw Nyah’s food in her water bowl….ok no big deal…kids are kids. Then I saw marker drawings on folders in my office. ummm a little irritated…..then I saw very important information erased from my dry erase board…hmmmm okay she’s six, I won’t be mean, I just took the marker away. Then I sat down at my laptop to check my email. Is this sugar that I feel on my fingertips as I type? No that’s impossible I rationalized, until I looked over and saw the kool-aid straw candy….inhale exhale. I think I was very nice about it, I said Little sister, little cousin put on your shoes, its time to go home. I dropped them off and Me and Nyah are about to relax and watch a movie :-)
Hey Everybody! I’m BACK!!! Yesterday I wrote my sad little post about how upset I was that my blog got hacked, but I maintained that there would be life after death, and that I wouldn’t give up. And guess what??? The same night I got an email from an awesome guy named Donald in Texas. *virtual hug* God bless him, he told me how to de-hack my blog. Since I’m really not as technically savvy as I would like to think, I kept reading his email over and over and it took me about an hour to really figure out and find what he was talking about. Then finally I discovered the “java script” that was attacking my blog. I’ve been trying to figure this out for weeks. And in about 5 seconds, I was able to click and delete, and everything was back to normal. I”m so super excited. I really missed blogging and I was so sad every time I got a “what’s wrong with your website?” email. There were friends and family who asked “what’s wrong?” that I didn’t even know read my blog. Having my blog back has really given me a burst of inspiration and I really needed it. I was feeling so stuck. I won’t even give you the gory details on how I’ve only worked out once a week for the past few weeks, missed weight watcher meetings, and how my pants are tight from eating too much “devil food.” Fortunately, I gave away all of my fat girl clothes, so I have no choice but to get it together! I’m back, get ready for the great return! P.S. On a funny completely unrealted note, I went to the allergy doctor and they ran some tests. My biggest allergic reaction was to “dog.” The lady asked in her nicest voice “is there any chance of the dog finding a new home?” I really almost laughed in face for asking me to get rid of my baby! Nyah has lived with me for 6 years since she was 2 months old. I just smiled and said “No, that’s not negoatiable.” I’ll wash my sheets everyday and keep all the windows closed before I do that!
What am I talking about? Everything… I suppose there is life after the death of everything. There have been so many things going on in my life, and I haven’t written a blog post in forever, so I guess I’ll start there. A few weeks ago, someone hacked my blog, or put “mal-ware” on it if you want to be technical, because the tech support guy said if it had been hacked, you wouldn’t be able to see anything. Then he tried to tell me it was just my computer….I explained to him that people all over the country and the world for that matter e-mailed and told me they were having the same problem. Whatever the case, when you go to my website, after a few seconds you’re automatically redirected to some random websites like toys in China, airline flights, and unfortunately sometimes even porn (yikes)! I was so upset when I started getting e-mails from my readers and my runners letting me know what happened. I felt so defeated. All of my hard work that I put in over the past year, destroyed so quickly without warning. I felt like my blog died…. I’m only a quasi-nerd, I don’t really know how all this stuff happened or even how to fix it. In my spare time (yeah right) I’ve been trying to back up everything so that I can start over and re-build it. On top of all of this, we had a death in the family. My cousin who I called Uncle passed away and he was only 49. I have been very fortunate and at age 28…this was the first time I lost someone that I had an actual relationship with. He lived in my parents’ house for about 80% of my life and still did until he passed away. We weren’t best friends, but he has a Mii on my Wii, he spent the night at my house, we talked on the phone and he was helping me recruit back up dancers for my upcoming Fat to Fit to Fierce DVD. This has been harder than I imagined, but I’m also handling it better than I imagined. I do take comfort in knowing that he loved God and that he is out of pain. He was always a jokester, and even on his death bed, he told me “this is like the horror movie Misery
.” I laughed and told him, it’s not that bad…. You guys know that Stephen King movie where the obssessed lady holds the man hostage in the bed and breaks his feet and all these other crazy things to make sure he doesn’t escape. You all know my family is very close, so pray for all of us. The lesson I’m learning is that there is life after death. After some sicko killed my blog and life ran its course with my Uncle, there is still life after death. It may not be easy and it may be challenging and different, but rest assured there is still life and I’m going to live it to the fullest!
Oh NO! My blog has been hacked. I know nothing about this kind of stuff. Apparently my home page, and some of the links are redirecting people to all kinds of different places. I’m sorry for any inconvenience. If you are a computer tech, or now how to fix this problem, please email me. HELP! carli@runningintoshape.com
Happy Birthday to me, happy birthday to me, happy birthday Dear Running Into Shape, Happy Birthday to me! Okay, so I spent all week coming up with this fancy title and song, just to realize that technically, I think it’s my 1 Year blog Anniversary, not birthday. LOL! Nonetheless, One year ago today, I wrote my very 1st post. Way back then, I was just a fat girl who wanted to run, and send emails to my family and friends to keep my self accountable. I guess I’m still overweight, and still wanna run, but my website has grown so much more. I created my own Couch to 5K podcast, and created a Wall of Fame for my successful 5K runners. In January, I had nearly 800 visitors in one day, and have had almost 47,000 visitors total. I’m even a certified group fitness instructor, in the process of making a fitness DVD. This time last year I would’ve laughed it someone would have told me that this is where I would be today. There are a lot of other cool things that happened in the past year, most of which I talked about in my New Year’s Review Post. But just wanted to say, “Happy Birthday Running Into Shape!”
