An Interesting (albeit annoying) fact about Blogger...

Hey everyone!

{{{I would SO appreciate you scrolling down to see my FFF project for today, but I have something I found interesting enough to share with you all today about Blogger, so I'm posting this on top...thanks SO much and be sure to check out my post below! :)}}}

Last night I had the opportunity to chat w/ my two besties, Mercy and Pam-it was late...we haven't really had a chance to catch up since our Fall Break, trips away, etc...and we were all missing each other PRETTY bad.  So we chatted, and alas it was close to midnight and I had to get my FFF post up on the TGF Blog!

I saved all the pics from our AMAZING DT to a temp folder on my desktop like I always do, (where they are emptied out after my post goes live) and began typing the post.  About 1/2 way through the uploads, I started getting an error message on the TGF Blog saying "Whoops! (which, the whoops made me laugh) You are at 100% capacity of your allowed 1GB storage and have to upgrade for more storage."   Well, Marie would probably take care of this in the morning, I figured...so I began deleting some of the DT's pics (they had multiple pics of one project, so I whittled it down and didn't even include my own project as to conserve room), and ALMOST made it w/ everyone's on there.

Anyway, I sent Marie an email this a/m telling her she needed to upgrade her storage.  She's been blogging a long time and showcases a TON of pics from the Gallery, so that made sense.

Now here I am, at my kitchen table, thinking I'm so efficient and I'm gonna get my post up for tomorrow early, the over- acheiver that I am (haha, NOT!)...and I log into my blog.  I begin typing my post, go to upload my one measly pic, and "WHOOPS!  I am at my 100% storage space, blah blah blah."   Certainly this must be an error-as this could not be a coincidence that Marie and I are out of room at the same time on our blogs.

Well, NOPE.  MARIE's blog, as it turns out, is not out of room.  I AM?   This may not seem like a big deal-but it dawned on me.  Every time I blog from my own blog, but ALSO when I blog to other Co's blogs, the pics that I upload (including the dozens of DT pics, customer gallery pics, etc.) are ALL stored on MY personal Picasa account that is associated w/ my Google account.   It occurred to me that not only do I blog for other teams, but that I also, up until the 2nd half of the 1st Team Anya's term, blogged to Club Anya every day by myself.    So yep, that's a lot of storage.

The Good news?  It's $5 (but to me, $5 is STILL $5 and it's not so much the $ but the fact that it kind of surprised me ;) to upgrade to 20GB of storage for a year.  Now obviously if it took me 2 years+ on multiple blogs to use 1GB, I'll be in pretty good shape...The Bad News?  STILL annoys me that I have to pay for it at all, and that I for one, did not know this or think about it until now.

So, maybe this is no big deal to you, and I definitely don't feel like the Nancy Drew of the Blogosphere or anything (my DH MAY have called me that as I was trying to explain that to him this a/m...dork, LOL!) but I thought I'd pass along what I've learned to my sweet bloggin' pals just in case you were like me and were unaware of this tricky lil' fact ;)

Hope you're all having a HAPPY FRIDAY!  xoxo