I do not even know where to begin to explain the nightmare this last week has been…
THE STORY
…First of all, allow me to apologize. I left you all with that somewhat cryptic post last Sunday, and then poof…I vanished. Ah, but it was not by choice. You see, occasionally when it rains, it does indeed pour. First, let me give just a brief rundown of what led to Sunday’s post and then I’ll get into what happened Tuesday. You might wanna grab a cup of coffee…just sayin’.
On Tuesday, April 24th my dad passed away. And this was no normal passing away situation if such a thing even exists. I have mentioned in previous posts that I came from a particularly bad group of people. That was the day I discovered exactly how bad they truly are. My entire life, my dad and I always had the father/daughter version of an on again off again relationship. One day in the future, when I’m feeling ready, I’ll write about that in more detail, but today is not that day. Anyhow, his woman (whom he’d been with since I was in high school, but never married), my uncles and cousin took it upon themselves to not only neglect to tell me the hospital had notified them that the end was coming, they also did not tell me that he had passed away. You read that right. That heinous group of individuals did not tell me my dad was gone. I found out accidentally. What in the literal hell?
As per my dad’s wishes there was no service of any kind. So there was really no resolution. To make matters worse, since he and the woman weren’t married I ended up with power of attorney over various matters. Fun times when not only are these people not speaking to me, but in my mind they all vanished from my world the day dad passed away and they neglected to mention it. You can only imagine the major mind f*ck I’ve been going through when you couple that situation with my apparently unresolved daddy issues. Alas, that’s all for a deep introspective post at some point in the future.
So, onto Tuesday. I sit down to write a post and boom…my blog imploded in edit mode. I can’t cover all of the issues because quite honestly I still don’t know what in the hell is wrong with it. The images were blowing up ginormous, my text (when I could add text…most of the time the cursor was stuck at the top) was showing up all over in random places. If I’d look at a post in preview mode, there were huge areas of white space between things. It was one hot mess.
My website designer, a freelance WordPress “specialist” and four, yes four, Bluehost techs later and I’m the one that through hours of research and experimentation figured out an at least manageable workaround. It’s still not fixed…you’ll notice that my images are no longer uniformly sized. I have to go in and hand code the size on every single one and for whatever reason, some of them won’t even adjust when I manually enter the image size code. According to all professionals involved, they aren’t seeing a problem on their end. I’m not sure how they access the site, but the issues were showing up on devices that weren’t even mine; I had numerous people look at the preview posts, and they all saw the issues that I saw. The web designer said it’s a WordPress issue, Bluehost said it’s a web designer issue…ya, whatever tech people.
To sum it all up, it’s been a damn rough few weeks. I know the blog doesn’t really matter per se, but it matters to me. When that fell apart in addition to everything else I seriously feared that my head would explode. So for the foreseeable future, please bear with me and my sporadic and not quite right looking posts. And please, if you notice any other issues with the blog from your end, let me know either via a comment or email.
THE OUTFIT
How deliciously bright and happy is this red floral tank top? Believe it or not, I found it at Walmart for under $6. As of late, they have started to kick up their fashion game. Methinks they’re looking to be more competitive with our good friends over at Target.
To really allow the top to pop, I felt like white jeans were the perfect choice for the bottom half. These are the white girlfriend jeans I got at Chico’s last year and I am still loving them. The chambray shirt on top was because, well, work. I figure a spaghetti strap tank top on it’s own isn’t necessarily appropriate middle school teacher attire. Besides, I think the chambray plays nice with the white denim, don’t you?
I was super pumped to bust out my most favoritist (ya, I’m making that a word) sandals ever (not counting my Birks). I got these super comfortable block heeled cuties at JCPenney last year, and you’ll be happy to know that they brought them back for round two this year. I have them in red, black and nude and I’m considering picking up the cute floral/stripe mixed print pair they added this year.
THE TIP
Don’t dismiss Walmart out of hand…you can actually find some pretty sweet pieces there at some equally sweet prices.
THE LINK UPS
Check out the weekly link ups I participate in for even more fashion and style ideas…
Cami: Walmart; Jeans: Chico’s; Sandals: JCPenney; Chambray Shirt: Target (Similar)
