There is nothing worse then working so hard on something and then in one fell swoop… it is all gone.  That’s what happened last night.  I was updating this very blog to Word Press 2.7 and once it was installed, a horror I have always feared happened…askROCCO Blog was no more.  Gone. Finito.

I wanted to puke.  So many thoughts went through my mind and none of them were positive.  I was absolutely horrified at the thought of having to piece this blog back together and all the work that went into it. I sometimes don’t realize how much work goes into this because I love it so much that I take it for granted…then…like a 2 year old would say, “all gone.” So after staying up most of the night into what I think was 5am I crashed and resolved to start a new askROCCO Blog.  I was hoping that my hosting company could restore it but I wasn’t holding my breath.

I learned a very valuable lesson from this little crisis…and it goes along with the same theme of some of the posts from this week…”Don’t worry about things you have no control over”.  I stayed up all night to try and fix something that I couldn’t.  It was beyond my scope reasoning and intellect at 3, 4 and 5 in the  morning.  No place for me to be.

When I woke up the first person I called was my hosting company and the second was someone I consider to be the Word Press “God”, Jameson Bennett.  He works for a company called Willow in Cincinnati, OH and knows just about everything and anything that is Word Press related.  Just being on the phone with him put me at ease and within 7 minutes he breathed life back into askROCCO Blog.  I was as happy as a naked baby running through the house (I don’t know where that came from…but now it’s your issue).

All that worrying, all the grief and yes, grief…it was like a child of mine died, all that lost sleep did absolutely nothing for me except make me irritable, cranky and drained.  Not a good stat to be in.

So I have decided that from now on I will not let that stuff get the best of me, get my rest and leave it up to the people that know better.  If by chance they don’t know better, realize that it is just a new beginning and move forward.

It’s a funny thing…I didn’t die, actually no one died, no one was hurt, I didn’t lose my life savings and I learned a little about myself.  All in all not a bad way to start the weekend.

I do want to thank everyone for appreciating what I do everyday because you allow me to do what I love to do…getting people to lose weight fast!

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