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I Confess

I just migrated over to self-hosted wordpress! I know I have been a proud “Blogger” blogger for a while, but I kept hitting too many walls and I’d had enough so, I pulled the trigger with my holiday bonus from work and here I am. So please let me know if you see anything that looks funny.

I did the whole migration myself and minus one little hiccup it went alright. I’m feeling pretty proud of myself.

This week is going by in a flash. I’m currently at a convention that will last until Saturday and I’ve barely had any time to get any other work done. #stressing

However, I love staying in nice hotels. People pick up after me, the bed is always comfy, and the bathrooms aren’t 500 degrees like mine at home.

The only downfall is that there won’t be an obnoxious adorable dog to wake me up every morning at 5 a.m.

Speaking of the dog, she had a nice fun escape on Monday. I have a leash from Petco so they have a different clasp that if you push on the side, it opens, instead of the typical, pull down latch. With her new no-pull harness, I think it pushed against the plastic latch on her harness, which opened the clasp. I panicked and shouted, “Come here!” at which point she realized she was off her leash and thought it was a great fun game of chase. So she dashed across the street, narrowly avoided an SUV, and ran all the way up to my building.

Meanwhile, I’m on the phone with my best friend (on the headphones luckily or else that phone would have been chucked) and screaming, “STARLA STOP COME HERE!” and chasing her across the street. My downfall was actually chasing her because she thought it was a fun game. I should have just stopped, used my stern voice and she probably would have stopped before reaching the street. Thank god nothing bad happened. #Liveandlearn #Emphasisonthelive.

to continue my bitching, all of this was after the metro had a technical malfunction and I got stuck inside a crowded train for 45 minutes. Instead of waiting over an hour on a train I decided to get off at the first station I could and walk home. Oh and that walk home is a 45 minute walk too. So to say the least, I got my workout in on Monday without even going to the gym! #Fitbitwashappy

I’m more than a little bit ready for the long weekend.

Now onto the link-up with Plucky in Love and I!

Here are the ground rules for the link-up:
  • Each Wednesday create a post about what’s going on in your life and confess!
  • Grab the button and include it in your post or include a text link back to the link-up.
  • Link up with either me or Sarah, so we can see what you’re confessing this week.
  • Comment on at least one other blogger’s post from the link up.
  • Feel free to share on social media with the hashtag #HumpdayConfessions and I’ll retweet.
  • Enjoy!
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  Hi! I'm Alanna. I'm obsessed with food, wine, travel, and dogs. I adore street food and dive bars just as much as Kate Spade and champagne. Originally hailing from Washington, D.C., I moved to Chicago in

  • Huge congrats with your merge to WordPress. Things look great, you’re amazing!

  • When I brought the dogs to work with me last week, Meri got off her lead and I almost had a heart attack. Luckily, there were enough birds in the nearby vicinity that she needed to chase off and she got tired so she came back to me… and there was also a fence along the road that I hadn’t seen.

  • Oh geez… some of my biggest fears revolve around my dogs getting loose. I’m glad you caught Starla before anything terrible happened! The site looks great! Congrats on the switch!

    • Thanks, Audrey! It all happened so fast but I’ve been super careful since then…also switched leashes.

  • Glad your puppy was safe. It’s always interesting how we realize after the fact what the perfect thing should have been to do. Congrats on your move to wordpress! I love wordpress, plugins are a wonderful thing!

  • Oh man, I’ve been there when the dogs get loose..I totally loose my cool and start screaming at and chasing them. They think it’s great fun!

  • Congrats on migrating over by yourself! Everything looks great! My dogs have had one of those moments like Starla with my boyfriend one time. I about had a heart attack when he told me what happened. Needless to say the all got scolded by me. I could never stay on a crowded train for 45 minutes. Props to you for getting off and walking home though. Hope your week gets better!

  • Monica L

    My dog used to take off any chance he got and loved having me run after him! Fitbit steps for the win!!

  • Wow, so impressed that you did the switch all on your own! If I ever take the plunge I’ll know who to use as a resource. It looks awesome! Everyone has been there with the dog off leash thing and it’s terrifying. Glad nothing bad happened. I would have been losing it after a day like that with the metro issues!

  • A doggie story for you. A friend of mine in Texas got to work this morning to find 10 puppies dumped on their doorstep overnight 🙁 She’s already found homes for 7 of them – yay! One looks kinda like a baby Starla 🙂

    • Oh my gosh! Starla was actually a stray and pregnant in Texas before I adopted her. But I adopted her a couple years ago. I wish I knew what her puppies would have looked like.

  • So scary Starla got loose! So glad she’s OK! 🙂

  • I have definitely experienced that with my dog! When I was younger, I used to go home everyday for lunch to walk him and he got off the leash and bolted straight across a very busy street and into LAKE ONTARIO. In February. Yeah. I feel you, friend.

  • Congrats on your migration to WordPress, especially doing it all yourself – that’s AWESOME! Your site looks wonderful.

  • OMG girl! You deserve a drink after the week you’ve had! At least it’s more than halfway over 🙂 Loving the new blog!

    • Thanks, Amanda! Of course this is the month that I’ve resolved to no drinking on weeknights. I almost caved on that night.

      • More power to you! I tried doing that too, but always broke the rule. So now I allow myself one work night a week for a drink (ex: tonight). Because I know there will be at least one night during the week I need a glass of wine to recover from my day haha

  • Yay for the migration to WP – it looks great! I’m so glad Starla’s ok! The first 6 months I had Sheba she had a few escapes and thought it was a fun game too. Def not! I like to think that she wouldn’t dart off now (unless of course there was another dog nearby) but it’s def not a risk I want to take. They’re such scary sitautions!!

  • Oh my goodness I’m so glad the escapee is ok! Hawkeye escaped once but she just went to the nearest person willing to pet her. Thank god

  • Props to migrating yourself! I’ve heard so many horror stories that I probably would never even attempt to. And why do dogs always run for the woods whenever they realize they’re free?? It’s like they like to see us panicking behind them

  • Yay for WordPress! You will never look back 🙂

  • Loving your gif selection today! I really don’t miss the daily commute on the metro and dread using it.

  • Congratulations on the big move! Switching to self-hosted WordPress was the best decision I could have made for my blog (though I started on wordpress . com, so it was really dismal before).

    • WordPress.com is awful. Still figuring out what I need to learn and what plugins to get but so far, so good!

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