Eight days ago the unthinkable happened. I woke up with no emails from my gmail account on my phone. When I went to sign on to gmail, I was informed that my google account had been disabled. The webpage that appeared let me know that I had violated the terms and conditions set by google. If I felt that my account had been wrongly disabled I could write an email to the address provided.
I immediately emailed the given address and acted like a model citizen that would never do anything to warrant disabling of my account. Yet, deep down inside I wondered what I did wrong. I even read the entire terms and conditions contract thingie from start to finish. Please note that this happened on a Monday morning. I would have done anything to avoid beginning my work day and a part of me was excited to have this challenge. This was NOT a short read. The jist of what I read was that you have to be a suspected serial killer to have your google account disabled. I knew this was a mistake....
Then it occurred to me that my entire google account being gone also meant my precious blog. I am still about 5 years behind in technology and the "world wide web" so this took a few minutes. I knew that I had to have somehow said something in my blog to have it shut down. Is there an underground world of schizophrenics that go to the circus that were offended I outed them? Is two-buck-chuck not to be smuggled over state lines? Is Ms. Frugalista mad that I dogged her for selling a 120 page book for $14.95?
Turns out, Google, a leader in the world of technology, nuked 150,000 gmail accounts for no reason. There are some 193 million gmail accounts and, according to an article, that is .08% of gmail users. Pretty much I won the Google lottery and I have nothing to show for it. Thanks Google.
So I am officially back up and running as of two days ago. To sum up February....it was hard. $100/week is no joke. I saved some money and I paid off my credit card. Mission: accomplished.
Now on to March. I will be writing my March opening blog right after I post this one. I didn't want to blend them together. Stay tuned.....
