Well, I had to submit and create an entirely new feed for the Gooseberried.  I apologize for the inconvenience of you having to update your feed in your reader but if you do read this site from a reader, please please update it to this:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/goose4

I made it nice and big for you all so it’s not confusing.  I haven’t been able to get a hold of Chad from ifreewebdesign about this new update.  He is the one that helped to create my new design and I need him to change the feed address on my little star feed icon up there in my navigation bar.  So obviously, don’t use the feed address that the little orange star leads you to.  That feed is no longer working.  I’ve tried to figure out how to change it myself, but I can’t find the area in all the coding that has the links associated with those icons.  Hmph.

Onward with the blog…

*Update: I found the coding to fix the link to the star myself!  Yay me!  The link for the star is the correct link now!*

I guess this is a part 2 to my previous post although I don’t want it to be.  As I mentioned before, I don’t have a feed for my blog right now because Typepad created my old one for me and therefore, I can’t get into it to transfer it to my new blog in WordPress.  Typepad has been awful about getting back to me or even helping me at all.  I emailed them twice with no answer and so finally, I decided to tweet them.  Their response was that they hadn’t received any emails from me.  Fine, whatever.  So, I told them over a direct message in Twitter the situation.  In reply, they sent me a link to click on to change my password in Typepad.  Um, that is not at all what I wanted!  I know my Typepad password.  I don’t know my feedburner password which is what I was asking them for.  When I explained that, no one ever got back to me.  And I have tried emailing them and messaging them via Twitter again.

So, I’ve finally decided to submit a help ticket through Typepad’s own site and hope to receive a response that way.  I’m giving it another few days and if they don’t come through, then I’ll just have to submit and get an entirely new feed and start from scratch.  I’m hoping at all costs to avoid this, but who knows.  I’m open minded.  It won’t be the end of the world, right?

Something else I’m not addressing is the fear I have of this whole new design.  I love the look of it but in my five years of blogging, I’ve never used WordPress before.  I feel like I’ve just relocated to foreign country and honestly, I’m feeling a little timid.  I know how to create a post alright, I mean obviously.  I’m just really hoping I don’t stumble upon something I’m totally unfamiliar with and confused by in the future.  I’m probably just worrying over nothing.  And even if I do come across something that takes me off-guard, I should just be grateful for the learning experience.

Anyway, I’m trying to get back into a blogging routine and I have plans for a lot in the future.  I just hope you’ll all bear with me in the meantime.

So, the design is done but I’m having some problems with my feed.  The problem being it’s not working.  Unfortunately for me, Typepad created my feed for me thus, I don’t have the username or password to have access to it.  Really smart on my part.  Anyhow, if you want to keep up-to-date on what’s going on over here at Gooseberried, you’ll have to either follow me on Twitter or Facebook or just stop by every day.  I apologize for that inconvenience.

You know, I have never been able to spell inconvenience correctly without using a spell check.

I’ve emailed Typepad to see if they could possibly dig into their archives and see if they have my username and password.  If not, I might have to just start over with a new feed.  One day, I’ll be back to my normal blog.