The Big Migration

Over the last couple of months I've been emailing & chatting with my dear friend Trixie about moving my sites over to her burgeoning porn empire. Moving all the files & filling out the forms & getting everything up & running smoothly is taking longer than I anticipated, especially since I can't devote my full time attention to it, but there will be a big announcement coming soon!

I'm still taking classes & painting up a storm and, as one might expect, I'm flat broke! hehe In this economy, most folks are feeling the pinch & you can imagine that starting out a new business as an artist plus going to school is a little daunting. My sites have never made much money, but at this point every little bit helps. Plus I really miss my web friends! I've met so many awesome people over the years from doing cam shows to fantastic members to the other web girls that have been my colleagues & it's really tough to just walk away.

Unfortunately this does mean I'm going back on my word & will be seriously pissing off my family. I'm still conflicted about that because I love my family & they've always been so supportive of me, but we simply have different value systems. Naked bodies are not bad. Sex is not wrong. The desire to watch other people naked bodies (or feet!)? Also not wrong! Sure, the porn industry has taken these totally natural impulses & produced some pretty warped shit as a result, but that doesn't make ALL porn inherently evil. That's like banning all music because you don't like Marilyn Manson. It just doesn't make sense.

The older I get (oh & I'm holding at 29, in case anyone is wondering), the more I realize I just need to do what's going to make me happy in the long run. In the long run, I want to be a painter. In the short run, I need money to buy supplies, to submit to galleries & shows, to keep a roof over my head. And in the long AND short run, it doesn't make sense for me to sit in a cubicle for 40 hours a week & then muster the energy to take night classes & squeeze in some painting time.

So it is after much consideration that I'm going to be bringing my sites to an awesome network where they'll get the attention they deserve from hosting that works to tech support that will help me fix things when they get broken and/or hacked. Plus you'll get access to the other girls on the network who have 24/7 spycams. Yay!

I'm not sure how much I'll be able to update since I'm still super busy & have very little privacy or space to shoot in, but I'm thinking I may focus more on the video side. It's so much easier to pull the video camera into bed with me & record some...ummm...intimate moments than it is to set up the tripod & remote & lights to snap pictures.

Stay tuned for more! I'm going to be offering a great deal for my old members too. I've missed you guys! :)

Update

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Gahhhh!

So apparently things were NOT ready to be switched over to the new server. I'm ready to pull my hair out here, but hopefully we can get it all worked out tonight. I moved the DNS back over to the old server for now. *sigh*

Moving Day!

After weeks of emails and frantic phone calls back and forth to support, I think I've finally got all the files moved over to the new server. I submitted the new DNS information today, so if you can't log in or you notice something wonky, PLEASE email me & let me know. And then I can fix it!

barefootkristy@gmail.com

Can't wait to get back to normal!!!

Update

A huge thank you is in order for all of the kind comments and emails I got after my last post. Sometimes I don't know what to say when I hear that a friend/blogger is having a hard time, but just seeing notes saying that me and Kiero were in someone's thoughts helped put a smile on my face. I'll have to remember that even if I don't know *what* to say, just saying *something* is often enough.

Kiero is still limping and definitely not 100% back to her normal self, but she's doing MUCH better. I haven't heard one of those gut-wrenching yelps for a few days now and she's been coming out to join me on the couch in the evenings. She's starting to put a bit of weight on her bad leg too. Hopefully this means it was just a muscle tear or sprain.

Server update: all of the content is supposed to be transferred over now, but I haven't been able to check it yet because I don't think the password stuff is set up. I'm not sure if the host company does this or if CCBill needs to do it, but hopefully we'll have all the bugs worked out this weekend and I can get back to normal. And update with some new stuff!

Weathering the Storm

Hello my little foot sweet peas! I've been having the craziest week that feels like the only thing left to happen is for my house to burn down. Knock on wood!

My site was hacked and a couple of member passwords were posted on a bunch of forums. Basically over the next few days, hundreds of people were downloading my entire site which means that my bandwidth charges went through the roof. My hosting company is charging me $963 more this month ON TOP of what I already pay for hosting. *cry*

I did cry actually. I stomped and cried and then threw myself into action trying to find somewhere to move my site. There is no way I can pay $963, so I'm scrambling to move my site to a new host before the old host pulls the plug on me. That's been taking up the bulk of my time this week, trying to get all of my movies and photo sets moved over to a new server, fighting with tech support, just generally fighting.

Phew. I'm exhausted. And go figure...2 days ago I got walloped with a horrible cold. I've been sleeping lots, drinking my OJ & trying not to overdose on Tylenol Sinus. My throat is all closed up and everything in my body aches.

Just as I was waiting for the locusts to come - Kiero, my lovey dovey super sweet love of my life, got hurt. I'm not sure exactly what happened, but we were going to the leash free dog park & she hopped out of the car, onto the grass & started limping. I looked at her paw to see if she had a thorn or stepped on glass or something...right away she started shrieking, the most horrible doggy yelp that stabs right through my heart.



She's been limping since Friday and as soon as I try to pick her up, she SCREAMS in pain. She can't get comfortable in her bed (or my bed). She keeps trying to lay down, but then is in pain so sits up again. I took her to the vet first thing in the morning on Saturday and the vet did a thorough check of her whole leg, her back, her shoulder and armpit, even her neck. Apparently neck pain can often show up as leg pain since it sort of shoots right down their paws.

Since the vet couldn't figure out what was wrong with her, we're hoping it's just a muscle pull. She's on pain meds for the next few days, but if she's not showing improvement by Monday, I'm supposed to take her back & that's where it gets really scary. If it's not a simple muscle problem, then it could be a tumour that's pushing on a nerve & causing the pain. *cry cry cry*

I don't know what I'm going to do. I keep praying to see some improvement because I'm sooooo not ready to let go of my baby girl yet. Seeing her in pain like this and not being able to do anything to help her is pure torture. And now I'm crying again!



OK...back to you guys! The positive upswing of all this is once my site is fully moved over to the new server it should be BETTER. It should be faster, have tons of space for adding lots more movies and I should have good tech support that can handle all of these kind of silly problems so I can just focus on making movies and chatting and YOU!

So. Hopefully I've weathered the storm and it'll be blue skies for the rest of...for the rest of my life! It can't get any worse, can it? Yikes. :)

Back to School!

Hey guys! I've been busy getting a new photo gallery ready for my good friend Wu. Can't wait to see it posted! I'm also getting ready to go back to school - art school! I took a painting class this summer that I really loved, so I'm signed up to do two more classes this fall. I'm a little nervous though.

I've got a new video that should be up either Monday or Tuesday, depending on how long the editing part takes. I'm wearing my saucy school girl outfit and teasing you with black nails. Any dark polish fans out there? You'll love it!

Screenshots soon!

*mwah!*
Kristy