Thursday, July 10, 2008

My Hubris....

Or is it my constant Instant Karma?

Just when I feel I'm sitting on top the world and I got the tiger by the tail.....

Bam Bam Bam.....

Last week I was feeling really cocky.....my herbal pet business was booming, constant calls, Internet orders streaming in, reorders from happy customers.....and then...

Holly's Instant Karma....and I do mean instant.

I should of known it was going to happen again, because I always get whacked with it when I'm feeling smug and my ego begins to get a little out of line.

What happened?

My website has been up and down for 14 days, and down hard for the past 3 days as they switch servers because of malicious hacking....I have had a sign up in lieu of my site that tells people that the site is down due to server upgrades. We had to go down to fix the data base, and change servers because the company that hosted my site could not keep the hacker at bay.

So....its been like a ghost town around here....virtually no business for the past two days and last week was sketchy because of the server breach.

Cut off at the knees...

But what is this instant karma that follows me around, and WHY me?

I have a brother ( we have not spoken in 7 years) that no matter what he does in his own life, no matter how nasty, or how wrong, his life continues to be filled with reward.

Me.....not so fortunate. Why I ask....

I think in a past life I must have not learned some sort of a lesson and I have run out of chances, and in this life, I have to get it right....

Because my Instant Karma, cuts me, Holly Mead....no slack what so ever.

And I continue to ask Why?

3 comments:

Lone Chatelaine said...

Don't be so hard on yourself. I know what that's like, because I do it to myself. You were not being smug or egotistical. You were just proud of your work, and that's a completely right way to be.

It's some bad luck, but not because of anything you did. And the good news is that you'll be able to make it all right. You'll recover just fine.

But go ahead and scream and curse a while. Go outside and run around in the back yard and curse the heavens. It feels pretty good :)

BetteJo said...

Oh that's the worst! I was wondering how you managed to find time to read some blogs. I hope it all gets stable soon.

And I dunno, stuff happens. Just sorry it's happening to you!

Riley is being a creep - he hides in the evenings which is when I give him the liquid stool softener, eats around the meds from the vet I put in his food in the morning, and I have barely tried to get the herbs into him because he's being such a shit!

Bested by a cat. That's my karma I guess.

Unknown said...

LC...if you only knew what is going on...life is dealing some bruttle blows right now..

Seems like a step forward and two back.

O well, it could be worse...I guess.

LB and BJ...yes this is AWFUL. Its till not up, feels like its taking forever....damn