I blogged recently on Lisa Reviews about how much I can’t stand the Chicago Tribune.  Yes, my favorite paper since I moved down here has made me cancel my subscription.  I know, hard to believe.  I have been through many, many, many changes to the look of the paper.  However, this last one I cannot stand.  It drives me nuts to the point that I swear its giving me acne. I can’t find the sections that I like.  I swear there is less content.  Some of pages look like a blog page which would be fine if I was looking at a blog.  However, I read the newspaper for more content not less.  My husband has always wanted me to subscribe to the Chicago Sun Times, so I finally did.  Today, our first paper came, and I loved it!  Their articles had real content and weren’t just all pictures.  I could easily find what I was looking for.  I only have two complaints.  I am not sure how I am going to share the paper with Bill.  We tend to read it at the same time.  The other problem I see is that I get less coupons.  However, the Chicago Sun Times is a third of the cost of the Tribune, so at least I am saving money there.  If I remember, I’ll just ask my mom to keep her coupons, and I’ll go through them when we go up to Green Bay.

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I have many comments wondering what happened.  Well, I haven’t posted what happened since I lost all access to the back end of my blogs.  You may have noticed that I haven’t update — That’s why!!!!  I found this as frustrating as when I was pregnant and I couldn’t figure out how to get rid of acne!  Anybody who follows me on twitter knows I was in tears Thursday night.  That’s how bad it got.  I had to leave for a wedding up in Green Bay on Friday (see previous post), so I spent my morning on the phone with them, and I still did not have access before I left.  I spent this afternoon on the phone with Bluehost again, and I am still having SQL errors!  I had a friend’s husband offer to help, and I think we have solved most of the issues with this blog.  However, I am now getting errors on some of my other blogs now.  Soooo, I still haven’t decided what exactly I should do.  I’m ready to pull my hair out.  I’ll take any advice anyone has at this point!  Should I stay with Bluehost or should I begin looking elsewhere?  (oh and the ticket I submitted Wednesday still hasn’t been answered!)

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I can’t believe I forgot to post the pictures of the basement.  Well, yes I can.  Between getting ready for Will’s birthday party and my aunt’s death, I was a rough week or so there. The difference between what the basement looked like before and what it looks like now is like the difference before and after acne treatments to your face  Its the different.  Here are the before pictures:

Here are the after:

Can you believe that this is the same basement?  I live here and I can’t!

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Have you heard of Entrecard before? If you are a blogger, its one of those sites that makes you excited like when you were in high school and found the best acne treatment ever. Seriously, Entrecard drives a fair amount of traffic to your site. However, they recently have gone through some changes that all the users don’t agree with. I won’t get into that since everything can change again in a day or two.

Instead, this post is about Owen and how awesome he is. Owen has written a plugin called EntreDroppers for us WP users. You can see it working in my sidebar (Its called Latest EntreDroppers). All you have to do is input your RSS feed from your Entrecard inbox, and that’s it!  You can tweak it to look like you want — descriptions after blogs, number of blogs showing, etc.  I have mine to show the last ten blogs to drop on me.

Give a shout out to Owen and let him know he rocks and download his plugin!

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