I know, I know, I still need to write about last Saturday's lesson, but it's been a WEEK. Why are the short weeks always worse than regular ones? Sigh. I think we're picking up hay after work tonight so no guarantees I'll get to it tomorrow either. I'm the worst.
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Also agrees I am the worst for always waking her up from naps to go to our lessons
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In the meantime.... Anyone out there in blogland have experience transferring their existing blog to a new domain (with blogger, not WordPress)? I picked Confessions of a Dressage Barbie as the title/domain on a whim 5 years ago but as my friends frequently point out, it's not necessarily the most fitting. I believe a direct quote was "And Barbie's make me think of vapid, narcissistic airheads. None of which applies to you." 🤣 stunning vote of confidence, I know! The name was always tongue in cheek, but I can see how it might be off-putting to someone who stumbles across it and equates the name with a stereotypical snotty dressage rider, which y'all know I am not. Frankly I'm a trainwreck 🤷♀️
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| Lesson outtakes - when Ruby decided to do a dolphin leap when she got excited about cantering... |
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| ...and I was like wtf horse and accidentally panicked and clutched her face 🙈 see? Trainwreck. |
So I guess now I'm casually exploring what it would take to move everything over - I already have a domain with a new name picked out. I may or may not have bought it THREE YEARS AGO with good intentions to move things then and then I... Didn't 🤣 I'm picking out some updated photos of the girls for a new header (since that photo of me on Cinna was like her 4th ride ever lol) and I already have the handle reserved on IG. Oh and a Gmail account for it. All three years old hahaha. Yeah. I am a procrastinator, what can I say? So maybe that will be this weekend's project! Assuming one of you pipes up in the comments and assures me t isn't nearly as complicated as I'm making it in my anxiety brain.....?
DO IT!!!!!
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DeleteLauren from She Moved To Texas I think has a lot of experience transferring domains
ReplyDeleteOh good to know! I reached out to Amanda since I know she just moved hers but it's WordPress so I didn't know how different it might be from blogger. Amanda's was super simple so hopefully mine will be similarly easy 🤣
DeleteYesssssssssss. So excited to see the new "rebranding" as it were!
ReplyDeleteI'm hoping to start making changes this weekend! 😁
DeleteOh fun changes happening! I have nothing to offer as I've changed nothing on my blog, like, ever. But excited to see the new name!
ReplyDeleteI don't think anyone will be surprised with the new name 🤣
DeleteI think thst the blog needs to feel true to you so go ahead and changes.
ReplyDeleteThe new name might swing too far in the opposite direction of barbie but eh, I don't care 🤣
DeleteSo I did it years ago from STB Excellence to Clover Ledge Farm and uhhh...I have no idea what I did LOL! I googled it and bought a domain name. So um, yeah, no help here! But if I find directions I will send them to you via FB messenger.
ReplyDeleteOK, wait, here is the help site. I knew it was pretty easy. You just have blogger redirect to a custom domain.
Deletehttps://support.google.com/blogger/answer/1233387?hl=en&visit_id=637669976714495182-3817235049&rd=1
I did some googling after I posted and I got a sneaking sense that it was far easier than I made it out to be in my brain 🤣🤣 and since this blog is already redirecting to a custom domain I think swapping domains should be... Easy? We'll see 🤞 I'm waiting on a new header image and then I should be able to go ahead and make the switch.
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