The Sky’s Falling and So Is My Sanity

A Love Letter to Utah Weather and Broken Websites

If you caught yesterday’s Sock Saga, you’ll be glad to know my whites are still in the dryer—so technically, I haven’t lost anything yet. We’ll call that personal growth.

Utah’s been dramatic this week. Rain hammering down like it’s auditioning for a disaster movie, and I’m out there narrating it like a lunatic.

I took a video because, of course, I did. The hail starts tapping and I go, “Oh, look at that little hail.” Then—boom. Thunder. I’m standing there yelling at the sky: “Come on, Utah, you can do better than that!” And apparently the sky took that personally, because it rumbled back like, “Challenge accepted.”

Meanwhile, inside, my website’s throwing a tantrum. Every time I fix something, three other things break. Buttons refuse to obey. Text boxes move like they’re on strike. It’s like the storm followed me indoors, except instead of thunder, it’s just Wix whispering, “unexpected error.”

And if that wasn’t enough chaos, I finished staining the 2x2 wooden sticks for my screened-in porch. Not for decoration—no, these are safety rails. Their entire job is to keep me inside the porch this time instead of falling out of it again. Because apparently, I can build a website (sort of) and an art studio, but gravity still wins.

Then there’s the Amazon pile by my front door—boxes stacked like I’m building a shipping fortress. They’re full of supplies I actually need so I can start making things for the website. But instead of opening them, I’m over here arguing with Wix, breaking my own momentum. I’m shooting myself in the foot—too busy fixing the thing that’s supposed to support the thing I’m not doing.

Every time I swear I’ll open them, Wix freezes again and screams, “You’re using too much memory!”

And I’m sitting here yelling back, “It’s not that fat yet!”

And here it is, 12:24 a.m., and I’m sitting on my phone, half-awake, chatting with no one about rain, porch sticks, and missing sanity—wondering if the whispers I hear are just Wix Studio being snarky from the cloud.

So yeah, between the sky, the software, and my porch, I think Utah’s weather might not be the only thing that’s unstable this week.

“Version 37: Still Uploading”

The sky is falling and so is my site,

rain taps errors through the night.

Boxes pile, my sanity’s gone—

publish fails, I press retry till dawn.

– From the desk of Disorderly Studio, where the thunder gets attitude.