What is a monkeybox?

When I was a little girl, we had a pet monkey named Amanda. My Dad worked in the produce business, so each night he brought home that days culls in a big box - spotty cucumbers, pithy apples, limp celery, moldy oranges and the like. We called it a monkeybox. It was really just trash, but my Mom would take each piece of fruit and trim it, pare it and cut it up to make a beautiful fruit platter for Amanda. Even though it was deemed trash by one, it still had life left in it and was good for the purpose we needed it. That's how I live my life - thrifting, yard saling, looking for another's trash to be my treasure.

Saturday, June 08, 2013

*Knock* KnocK? Is anyone there?

Oh my goodness!  My beloved blog has been missing for the past 24 hours and I have been absolutely SICK with worry!  I finally found it, but you will need to bookmark this new address- www.mydealoftheday.blogspot.com  This is where I had the blog originally, but had bought a domain just so the blog would always be safe. HA.  That worked great, now didn't it?  

When Google tried to recharge me for another year, the credit card I had on file had expired. in the time it took for me to update the information, a company in Nevis had bought the monkeyboxblog domain out from under me.  Now, isn't that special?  NOT.

What a mess and I am sick.  But, I at least have my blog back.  I knew it was important to me, but now I really know HOW important it is to me.  I have cried buckets.  Boo hoo.  I am thrilled to see my posts again and all my junk and everything.  Now, I just hope all my readers can find me again.  Leave a comment or shoot me an email if you read this, okay?  monkeybox@juno.com

Also, if you have a link to my blog on your blog, would you mind please updating the link to http://mydealoftheday.blogspot.com/ ?  I've always said I blog just for me and I'm amazed anyone even reads it.  Now I realize that I am SO VERY thankful for my readers.

Gosh, what a day!

I'm baaaack, baby!

16 comments:

  1. I'm here. glad you are too.

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  2. It came up fine here glad you are back.
    Cathy

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  3. Glad you're back, they should hold the blog names for a while to give the owner time to update and re-pay. But at least it's back. I missed your blog.

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  4. That is a crazy blog story. Glad you had a back-up!

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  5. Got ya re-bookmarked to favorites. What a scary ordeal, to think all your hard work and words of storytelling, could be lost in cyber space.

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  6. Wow. That's scary. Glad to see you back though. I'll re-bookmark you!

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  7. WOW!!! when I did my usual to get to you it said
    something that "it could not be found" & had GO DADDY
    as a link-what the #$%%&*?????

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  8. WOW!!! when I did my usual to get to you it said
    something that "it could not be found" & had GO DADDY
    as a link-what the #$%%&*?????

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  9. We can still see you! 8-)

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  10. I got you in my reader just fine!! So I guess the link is working OK. I would be devastated if I lost my blog also. So glad it came back!

    hugs,
    Linda

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  11. I am doing a major sort and purge and have a medium sized box of various Easter stuff, some vintage and probably some not. Lots of little ornament type thingies for an Easter Tree. Would you want them?

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    1. HI - There's no way to contact you through your posts. I tried to find you the last time you left me a message too. I'm sorry! Can you shoot me an email? monkeybox@juno.com

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  12. I think I've always just used your old URL anyway and it worked fine over the years.

    I hate dealing with domain renewals and so on and have had a few close calls myself.

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  13. I'm glad you got it back! I was so sick to my stomach for you when I read your post on Facebook! I must have had you under the old name because you are still on my sidebar-just like always! :)

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  14. Hey Shara!
    Glad to be able to find you again! Have you contacted those (unmentionable name here) people to see if your blog name is available for sale (reasonably, of course)?

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  15. Thankfully I liked you on Facebook because I couldn't remember how to find your blog, but find you I did.

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