So, I bought my domain name because I suffer from the delusion that one day I might be a professional, published author and I don’t know if I did something wrong or not but my blog seems to have disappeared.
God, I wish I had taken more tech courses! Anyway, it is possible that the strange and unpleasant page that springs up when you type in lakebelle.blogspot.com will GO AWAY in a couple of days once the link or connection (or whatever the hell it is) is made, but I wasn’t told. If my blog is just plain gone, I will cry. I will crawl under my covers and CRY. Or, in a short time, my new name will kick in and if some poor soul or truly loyal friend wants to see the blog they’ll get to type www.mylakebelle.com, which won’t actually take anybody here, but to the blogspot site. Does this make any sense? Not to me, it doesn’t.
And the name here may have to change…I’m so confused!
Maybe I should just go to bed.
Marta Bacon 
Well, it seems to be working just fine now, whichever of the two links you go to.
After two calls to tech support I figured out what I’d done wrong. Although I had followed instructions–the blogger instructions were just wrong. At least the tech guys didn’t make me feel like a twit. And now I have my very own domain name–as if that might mean something. The things folks do to try to look “professional.”