Blogging Problems - How My Blog Disappeared for a Week!

{This photo is supposed to represent me tearing my hair out - is it effective?}

OK - I'm not going to lie. This last week has been really frustrating. {Cue the Psycho music here.} One day when I went to check on my blog it was GONE. Well, not really
 . . .  but it seemed to be GONE! {If you tried to visit me during that time, I apologize for any inconvenience.}

After lots of weeping, wailing, & gnashing of teeth - I discovered the reason. If you have a  nameofyourbloghere.blogspot.com, this probably won't happen to you. But I changed to my own url {michellelunt.com} a year ago. Everything has been peachy until it was time for my domain name registration to renew. Apparently Google is going through some changes & honestly - I think I got caught in the middle of the vortex of it all. I'm writing this post to help others with similar issues.

Here's what I learned: