Author: JenLivingLife

Just living life and having fun whenever possible.
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Social Media Setup

frustratedSo I’ve had the alter ego JenLivingLife for years on twitter but I never expanded it beyond that until now. I set up the website and when I started adding widgets I realized I only had one little social icon to put on there. I use YouTube, Facebook, etc. just not as JenLivingLife necessarily. Well this prompted me to set up the others since it seems logical that they’d all work together well with the website. OMG… four hours later!!!! Ya, that was a pain. I had to link this to that, unlink that from there, yadda yadda yadda. The worst was trying to set the personalized url on YouTube. You can do this by having 500 folllowers/fans/or whatever-the-heck they are called there – subscribers maybe?? OR by jumping through a few super-hoops. I tried the hoops route and failed miserably but not until after a valiant try. I think you might have to be a lot more website developer savvy, aka know ANTHING about writing html which I am not/do not.

I’d like to think the lesson here is PATIENCE since I know I definitely don’t have any of that and would like to develop some. I can tell you it would take a buttload of patience to wait for 500 to follow my vids and really, by then do I even care about a custom url anymore by then. I think not.

My advise – if you landed here reading this hoping for helpful insight on YouTube custom urls – just don’t bother. Tag your vids with the name you want and when someone searches they’ll find you that way.

Oh but if you do figure it out and it’s not rocket-science-esk please let me know. And by let me know I don’t mean brag about your awesomeness and leave me hanging. Share your knowledge!

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Internet Down!

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It drives me crazy when the internet is down. Makes me wonder how on earth we survived before the internet. I mean I lived in a world before the internet and I remember it. Heck, there was no internet the last time I went to school yet the concept seems so bizarre now. Actually my internet is not down, like totally down. It’s down in that even more infuriating way. The up and down, up and down way where you just keep hoping your content will refresh but nope, but wait there it goes… yeah, then nope again. It’s surprising to realize just how much you can’t do without an internet connection. I was working on the website when refreshing became a nightmare of a wait so hmmm, I’ll go catch up on Facebook while I wait, um no dumbass. If the site won’t refresh Facebook won’t either. I tried this with Twitter, Amazon and Netflix before pulling the plug on the stupid. Fortunately I can write a post offline. Of course I’ll have to have internet to freaking post it though.

I’m not a gamer and if I was I can’t imagine I would play one that wouldn’t require an internet connection either. I do have a few offline game options on my cell phone, you know for when you’re in flight or something. Seriously, they are sad excuses for games though. It’s like match the president or match the reindeer. I told y’all I wasn’t a gamer.

Holy cow… my phone. I could have just been checking Facebook from my freaking phone. GEEZE I still had cell data. Wowza. I think I need to take a nap or a margarita. Yes, definitely a margarita.

*If you’re seeing this post, the internet came back before I had the good sense to delete the whole darn thing!

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Website Setup

So I had this brilliant idea to start blogging again after a long hiatus but first I had to create a site. Seemed logical to use the twitter handle I already use as the page url and away I went (about 7 hours ago). GEEZE did that take longer than I expected. I’ll be making a lot of changes in the near future but for now, it’s up! I have, however, used up all my free time and can’t really get into a good post at the moment. This site is intended to help me keep my sanity through the ups and downs of, well, life duh. Hope if you were tortured by this random post that you visit again and enjoy other posts. It’s my goal to find the humor in every situation.

~JenLivingLife