You should have heard the cursing coming out of my mouth yesterday. The CURSING. I don’t know what possessed me to try to move my weblog when I was not having the best day ever anyway. I’ve wanted to move it to this main directory for quite some time, since it’s now the main focus of my site and I don’t think I really need a splash index any longer. I’ve read and re-read the instructions from WordPress on how to do it and I’m sure they make sense but I’m still having trouble concentrating on words that aren’t accompanied by pictures like all of Hayley’s books because of minor sleep deprivation so I kept putting it off.

Then yesterday was kind of a crappy day from hell. I had gotten less than three hours of broken sleep because Hayley was freaking out most of the night and when she wasn’t, then Breanna was up (George got about as much sleep as I did). Hayley woke up angry and proceeded to have the Epitome Of Age Three temper tantrums throughout most of the day, getting supremely pissed off whenever I said no (NO, you can’t have chocolate for breakfast and if you keep this up the fucking Easter bunny is bringing BANANAS next year). Breanna woke up earlier than normal and had trouble sleeping for any of her naps so she was cranky and wailing from being overtired. Our stove had stopped working on Monday and we weren’t sure if it was a fuse problem since all the fuses looked good (luckily it was indeed a bad fuse, so we don’t need a new stove, yay) so I was worried about that and also trying to think of something interesting to make for supper in the electric skillet or microwave if we couldn’t fix it.

And so whatever got into me to try the move yesterday is beyond me. All I know is Breanna finally fell asleep for a nap and Hayley was having some quiet time with a movie, and I decided that a sleep deprived and frustrated person who was wondering if noon was too early to start drinking was in the right frame of mind to do some site changes. Yay me.

Once I calmed down, I opened a support ticket because Verve rocks and I was hoping they could help me out by using a backup. They tried but it didn’t work so last night I figured I had nothing to lose by trying a few things. Despite the fact that my knowledge of MySQL could fit on a flea’s head, I exported everything but the options table from my original weblog. I then installed WordPress from scratch in my main directory, went into the database and dropped everything except the options table and imported everything else from my weblog. All that remained was to tweak the layout again. And here we are!

Whew. I was thinking about maybe getting a new domain when this one expires in July but I think I’ll renewe it after all. Trying to transfer everything to a new domain might trigger a nervous breakdown.