Unconditional Love
Welcome to the temporary home of Marriage Confessions.
Why, Katie! Where did your regular website go? Well, I’ll tell you.
Last night around 11:00 PM, Chris took my heart out, threw it on the ground and stomped on it. And by heart, I mean my blog. He was making some changes to my website and he accidentally deleted EVERYTHING. E-V-E-R-Y-T-H-I-N-G. So, we have temporarily relocated to the Man Cave which will be our home this week until we get the main site up and running again in 5-7 days. You all shouldn’t notice a change in anything (except for the fact that none of my prior posts are here and none of the links work…). Keep checking in at www.marriageconfessions.com and you’ll be directed to the Man Cave automatically.
This brings me to our topic of discussion today. Unconditional love.
You hear this term a lot. In wedding vows. In church services. In prison letters. And we all say we have experienced it. “I love you unconditionally, baby.”
Yeah. Sure you do.
The fact is, you don’t know hooey of unconditional love until your unconditional lover crashes your beloved website. A website you have spent two years perfecting. A website containing journal entries of the day your first born child was born. A website where your deepest thoughts are displayed to thousands of people every day. Until that happens to you, you don’t know unconditional love.
But, I do. I know of this mythical love. I know of it because last night as I cried and cried and drank and drank and screamed countless death threat after countless death threat to Chris, I still loved him. Somewhere deep down. In the depths of my soul. In that corner of the depths of my soul where cobwebs have grown and dead spiders have collected. In that small corner of my soul, I still loved him.
But I’m still upset and he will still suffer my wrath. And today, my wrath will take the form of midnight Beanie feedings. And tomorrow my wrath will have something to do with a Diaper Genie. And Chris will suffer these wraths silently and gratefully. Because he loves me unconditionally, too.
So, I’ll see you back here. In the Man Cave. And while we are here we will fill this Cave with all things pink and woman-y. So that every time Chris ventures into the Man Cave from henceforth, he shall remember his terrible mistake.
And my unconditional love.
12 Comments
tina
Wow that really sucks! I hope you can get everything up and going again, I love your site. Im really mising some pics of the bean though!
Diana
So sorry, Katie! This must be devastating for you! I hope the site gets magically restored back to its previous self quickly and painlessly for you!
Maureen
Not that you’re looking for advice while grieving the loss of your blog, but when you’re up to it, check out the Way Back Machine. Things just don’t disappear when posted online.
Enjoy girling up the Man Cave. 🙂
Mindee@ourfrontdoor
I am so, so sorry. My husband lost mine too after the first year. It was devastating but it didn’t have a pregnancy/birth chronicle on it. Seriously. That is horrible.
Glad your marriage is solid. But can we light some flowery smelling candles?
Annie
Katie, I don’t know if this helps, but all of your posts still come up on my Google Reader. It may be a way you could still get all of your verbage. I’m sure you have thought of all that…Hope it all magically appears again…For Chris’ sake I mean. Ha 🙂
Chloe
I’m so sorry!! I love your site!! I need your funny posts!!!!!
Well, at least, you can use the Man Cave… I hope all your past posts appear again!!
Lori
Ouch–sorry to hear about the website crash! It is a least nice of Chris to let you move into The Man Cave while he puts your site/heart back together with Gorilla Glue and gaff tape.
Christina
I’m so sorry! I can’t imagine Blogging for two years and having it all lost! Yikes!
Maureen
Well, look on the bright side. At least you have someone else to blame instead of having to admit you messed it up yourself. That’s always nice!
In the meantime, yay for pink man caves!
My wife reads your blog
Hi Katie,
My wife reads your blog, loves it and told me about this happening. I just thought I’d give some advice as your site is probably not lost.
a) Move quick, as every page of your blog has been cached by google. Type into google “cache:marriageconfessions.com/?p=2288” — or whatever post you want — and you should see everything cached by google.
b) Speak to your hosting company. They should have daily backups and full backups going back a couple weeks. You could beg them to give you a copy of your old database.
c) Google Reader as someone mentioned above. I don’t know if you use something like Feedburner but if you do it should be there too.
Not sure if any of that helps, but hopefully it does and your able to get some of it back!
Daniel
Camille
Oh, Katie, I feel so sad for you. I know a little bit how you feel, after spending hours on posts that wordpress has inadvertently eaten (never to be seen again). Of course, that’s only a FRACTION, a teeny TINY fraction of the angst you must be going through. I can’t even imagine. Way to fight through it!