Celebrating recovery!
As of this week, it’s been two years since I landed in the hospital for a month, right after Thanksgiving 2021. I spent Christmas and the New Year in the hospital and therapy center. This week is also my anniversary of being one year cancer free!
During the first year of chemo/radiation/surgeries, and the second in recovery, time seemed to drag by. I spent most of it sleeping or praying–especially praying for God to help me get to the other side of all the difficult stuff.
So here I am, and all of it is in over-my-shoulder view.
The Lord is faithful!
He’s blessed me with the support of amazing friends and family. Also, the understanding that as difficult as things sometimes got, all of it could have been much, much worse, and I’m still thankful that it wasn’t.
About the moving...
Spring of 2023, I began moving content from my Weebly-based website, back to Blogger. Blogger was the very first blogging platform I ever used, but after many years with Weebly, I was dissatisfied with the lack of customization options and the ease of producing good looking posts, like I had with Weebly, so, I bailed and went back to Weebly.
Weebly has always been buggy. If a blogger’s work is monetized, such as with AdSense or Amazon affiliation, Weebly sometimes (far too often for my liking) fails to publish, or posts disappear entirely, especially with third-party coding, such as the inclusion of AdSense and Amazon affiliation. This happens even though the platform is set up to easily integrate with AdSense.
I was all good giving Weebly another go until about a month ago, when Weebly’s platform began having hiccups again, and this time, there was no acceptable solution to getting it sorted.
Ten hours with Weebly’s tech-support team before they decided the problem was with the customization of my site (which is supported in the selections, but change one thing, like a background image or fonts (even tho they’re offered.
So, if my Weebly site has to look ugly and can’t support AdSense, there wasn’t much point in maintaining with it, so, I’m officially back at Blogger and very, VERY happy about it.
Blogger isn’t as visually fancy, but it’s still customizable and doesn’t wig out over using my own graphics, changing fonts, including AdSense or Amazon affiliate coding. It also comes with LOADS of widgets that provide guests with quality resources for my website visitors to enjoy.
Another thing, YouTube is a sister-platform of Blogger, both being owned by Google.
Both can generate money for content makers. Their monetization comes from the same source, but each is independent in its stats, so you know how many guests your website and channel are each getting and same thing for the coin they generate. Very blonde-friendly!
If you’ve not yet visited my channel, I hope you will. You can get there via the side-bar link here on the the site, or just click here.
All that and Blogger is totally free, always has been. Google also provides customized domain names for under $15 annually, and there's no extra fee to have them on Blogger.
Currently, Weebly charges $10 per month to accommodate a personalized domain name.
More perks: Getting back in touch via Blogger
One of the many perks of blogging on Blogger is its community of bloggers!
Blogger makes it easy to find other writers using the Blogger platform, and I’d forgotten how easy it is to follow several writing colleagues, who became friends over the years, also using Blogger.
I’m gonna enjoy catching up on their site content and will share a few links to their sites below, for your perusal.
Sometimes serious but often a hoot! This guy is knowledgeable on a wide array of interesting subjects and presents mot of them through YouTube vlogs, thatare also available on his website. Scholastics, scuba, music (especially strings) and travel are just some of the topics he addresses in his work, and not a one of them is boring!
Like Mike, Laura produces some fascinating and beneficial content on her site. She’s an excellent writer and often addresses many life-challenges that most people encounter sooner or later. She’s an optimist, which shines bright in her posts.
WW may be last but it’s certainly not least! Vicki Warner and I have been close friends and colleagues for more than a decade now, and like Mike, she has an amazing array of content, oozing with helpful content on topics such as organic master gardening, cooking, travel, money management and more!
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38 “Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will be given to you.§ For with the same measure you measure it will be measured back to you.”
Luke 6:38
(World Messianic Bible Translation)
The wrap!
Thank you for visiting today and I hope you’ll continue on with me, here on Blogger. It may not be qute as fetching as Weebly, but it doesbn’t look back and the perks it provides in a good user and guest experience have been well worth the move, so I hope you’ll continue on with me in this blogging/vlogging journey and enjoy the new surroundings.
I pray your holiday season is full of blessings, pressed down, shaken together and running over. I pray for God’s protection to cover Israel and until next time,
Shalom
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