Happy Holidays!!
I hope everyone has having a happy holiday season!! I just wanted to give you a quick update on life in the Beantown Baker Household.
First things first, I got my blog redesigned!! It has been in the works for some time now, and everything got delayed a bit due to our move to Cincinnati, but the new site is up and running. Stop by and check it out. I hope you love it as much as I do!
Second, an update on the move. A couple weeks ago, Hubby and I made the drive from Boston to Cincinnati. We had a sunny day, very little traffic, and made really good time. We lived out of a hotel for another week before finally moving into a two bedroom apartment. We are starting to get settled – I’ve even baked in my new kitchen already. We bought a tree and got it decorated last night. Just in time for Christmas!
Christmas Tree 2012
Our plan for the rest of the year is to relax, enjoy some delicious food, hang out with some friends, and then head to Illinois for my sister Brooke’s wedding on New Years Eve! I’ll see you guys in 2013! Happy Holidays!!
I am Jen the Beantown Baker. Engineer by day and baking maven by night. Hubby serves as my #1 fan and official taste tester. We got hitched back in 2006. Barefoot. In the sand. With the waves crashing behind us. It was one of the best decisions we’ve ever made. 
Thank you, thank you, thank you for posting this! I have also been using Google Reader for some time and am very sad that it is shutting down. Thanks to your very helpful instructions I set-up my Feedly and was able to get all of my tags moved over. Thanks again!!
beantownbaker — June 17th, 2013 @ 7:29 am
So glad this was useful for you! I had such a hard time with the tags in Feedly. I was about ready to give up when I found the comment to fix it.
Oh my god- I am SO upset about this!!! I’ve been putting off moving to another reader and using GR til the BITTER END. Thankfully, I don’t really use the tags (I pin recipes instead), but I’ve got a bunch of posts starred that I should probably do something with.
beantownbaker — June 17th, 2013 @ 9:34 am
Like adrienne said below, Feedly will import your starred posts, so that’s good.
Ugh I KNOW! I went to Feedly early and I’ve started to feel pretty settled in it but it’s certainly no google reader.
beantownbaker — June 17th, 2013 @ 9:35 am
The one major thing it’s missing is multiple tags! It drives me crazy. Like I had this cake tagged in GR as “cake”, “chocolate”, “myBirthday” and in Feedly I’d only be able to tag it with one of those things. Grr…
oh and amanda – feedly imports your starred items!!
I have a lengthy post grousing about the disappearance of Google Reader as well.
I have gone over to Feedly as well, and though I don’t love it yet, I am satisfied with it.
I didn’t have a lot of tags, though I had many starred posts that I “was going to do something with one of these days.” Since the announcement, I’ve bookmarked all my starred posts instead, and plan to implement some system there in the future. (Oh, being a librarian – I have to organize things…)
I tried importing the recipes to Pepperplate, but that only works quickly for those sites that have agreements with Pepperplate.
In Chrome I have added the Google reader “theme” expansion to feedly, so it looks more like the old Google Reader.
I know that I am not going to use Google’s services Google+ or GoogleNow for anything like this though, because who knows when they will disappear.
Have been shopping some of the other options, there’s a feeder called The Old Reader (http://theoldreader.com) that allows you to import your Google RSS. Operates in a similar manner but a bit on the slow side.
beantownbaker — June 21st, 2013 @ 11:51 am
Oh I’ll have to check that one out – thanks!