Numbers

I must say that numbers have become to mean so much to me. In fact numbers mean more then most things do. I look at my statistics (for Blogger blogs, since they are not on my website right now) and I see that yesterday my numbers fell. This of course is primarily due to the fact that I didn't post. It happens a lot when I skip posting for a day or two. You can actually see the correlation between posting and viewing. But I must say, I am surprised that NO one visited yesterday. Of course, because all of this means more to me then it should, I am also saddened.

Today should be an interesting day. My husband has been working 14 hour days for six days in a row. So, I decided that because I wanted to see him this week, and because no one would mind, I am going to work with him today. The baby is going to his grandparents house, where he will play with the aunts and uncles who recently arrived (this past Tuesday) and we shall see how the day goes. He cried when we visited on Wednesday night. He was tired and a bunch of people he didn't know were in his face and trying to play with him (I guess I would have cried too). Thankfully none of them felt upset that their young nephew didn't remember them (it has been six months) and that he was a little afraid of them. I think I would have been really sad at eight if any baby was scared of me, but we didn't have to worry about it, since they just kept on trying to play with him. The older ones kept trying to get the younger ones to back up. I have no idea what Marcus was thinking, I never had young aunts and uncles (nor did I have seven who lived in one household).

Well, I need to jump in the shower and get ready!

Waiting

This week has been a week of waiting. I am waiting to make more money with PayPerPost. I really need to get a non-blogger blog up there, but need to wait three months (all my own domain blogs are brand new). I can't format my new websites, I just can't figure it out. My husband can, but he has been working loads of overtime this week for inventory. Of course while that leaves me stuck at home all the time and waiting for him to have time to help with the websites, we surely won't be able to complain about a check with forty hours or more of overtime.

I just don't know what all I am waiting for. I feel like I am on the edge of this huge break through to something big. I don't know what it is, but maybe, just maybe if I can be patient it will be something big. Something great.

Of course I have spent all summer working and believing that we are going to hit something big, it is just a matter of time. If not today then tomorrow or the next day. Well not quite like that. I believe in working hard and not just getting hands out or hoping for some giant reward for doing nothing. Hopefully we can get everything in place by 2011. We figured it out. We need an average of 2800 a month with it going no lower then 2400 a month. Right now, I am making about 80.

Well, I am off to spend some time with my wonderful son. He has been in a good mood for a couple of days now...it has been wonderful!

I have been thinking...

About houses of late. I want a medium three bedroom house with a great master suite and a nice office. Of course, my medium size house plans get thrown off by this giant media room that my husband wishes to have. He wants to be able to have several brothers and sisters over to watch movies. He has four brothers and four sisters and currently one sister-in-law, but considering that most of the kids are still under 18 that is bound to change and in a big way. All of them being movie buffs, he wants a great theater room. About fifteen by seventeen feet.

And then there is the work space. This is the part that we have absolutely huge dreams on. We want lots of huge windows for tons of natural light. We want a workshop, a small kitchen, loads of counters for a variety of work, and I would like a place to blow glass. Of course they can't all be in the same room for cleanliness issues. I want to make soap and body products and therefore can not have dirt flying around in the kitchen. But if we do make all our dreams come true, then our work space/shop/studio will be bigger then our house :-P.

Time will tell...till then, I will be happy with what I have!

Taking Off

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I am an Addict

I must say I am addicted. Addicted to the internet, to checking things (e-mail, stats, financial gain). I am Addicted to reading and posting in blogs.

I just love this stuff. Each morning I check how many visits I had on each of my websites (well on my blogs here at Blogger right now since they are the only ones that have stats hooked up to them). It excites me to see that I had a handful of visitors and a few were repeat visitors. It seems a tad pathetic to get excited about a handful when others have hundreds or thousands of visitors each day. But I keep figuring, you have to start somewhere. I have no idea how long it will take to build up a good amount of people coming to your blog. I have no idea that I can do that with this blog. After all, it is my personal blog and doesn't provide much for the reader. Or maybe it does. It shows a lot about who I am, it shows a lot about life.

I don't know why, but I like reading personal blogs (as long as they are written decent, capitalized, punctuated, and such). Maybe because there is a curiosity behind it. Maybe because I like knowing that I am not the only crazy person out there...I don't know (shrug).

Anyhow, I am definitely sick, BUT YAY! I don't have to go anywhere today!

I am Sick, but Thinking of Elephants

I am sick. Darned head cold, probably would be easy to sleep it off it I had the time, but I don't so such as life. Instead it is just making me feel miserable, isn't that life!

Anyway....Elephants. Gray Elephants.

So, my father-in-law is cheap. It is all that really truly can be said. He is very cheap. And he wanted to buy paint for his garage because it looked horribly dirty out there. He went to home depot and found a five gallon bucket of paint that had "oops" written on the top and cost $15. He assumed someone had bought it and brought it back (more likely someone had mixed it up and no one wanted it). I wasn't there, so this is at least what was told my by my sisters-in-law. He bought the paint. The girls put it on the wall and decided, elephant gray was a bad color for the garage to be (they will be using it as a play room, and it is awfully dark). A call to their parents got them the go ahead and paint it anyway. We arrived eight hours later and they still weren't done. So, we helped. But it is really elephant gray!

It is very dark under the one bare 60 watt light bulb! But the garage is painted and it will be hard to get it to look dirty!

I feel Grumpy!

Of course it isn't really all that surprising. I couldn't sleep last night, so I was up till about two thirty in the morning. Though it is a wonderful Saturday, the alarm rang at about four thirty. This wouldn't be so bad, but there is really no way to sleep through my husband getting ready for work. First there is the loud shower and bright light, there there is the shuffling around and the talking to me, and it isn't worth fighting. Most days I have to at least be up for the hour that he is getting ready.

Today really sucks though. Here's the plan, sleep 2:30-4:30, be awake while hubby gets ready 4:30-5:30, sleep 5:30-6:30, get up and make bottle, sleep 6:30-8:00 get up, wake baby up (damn I hate when I have to wake him up!) and go and get my sister-in-laws who need me to play taxi driver till Tuesday. They need a ride from their father's corporate apartment to their new house where they are cleaning and painting today (the rest of the family, mom, dad, and five additional brothers and sisters, will be arriving on Monday night).

Oh, I forgot to mention, my husband doesn't usually work on Saturdays. I found out about him working today at about six fifteen last night.

Frost the cake: I don't feel real good, I have a head ache and a sore throat. Why, oh why, do these things come at the worst of time for them to arrive? Why can't I feel sick when nothing is going on?

Well, now that I have complained to you I feel a little better (minus the tiredness, the headache, and the sore throat :-P).

I can go to bed in fifteen minutes...at least for a short while.

It Would Appear

It would appear that I continue to have a hard time getting up in the morning. It doesn't really matter what time I go to sleep at night, I enjoy sleeping in. I like the feeling of sleeping and sleeping till I can't do it anymore. Of course with Marcus that hasn't happened very often as of late. But I certainly don't like the alarm clock waking me up long before there is any sign of sun.

I have always been one of those people who saw four thirty in the morning because they were still awake, not because "morning had come". I must say, I think that having to get up this early should be a crime. Of course it doesn't change much when you have a boss. And for me I certainly get a lot more done without the baby playing with the mouse and trying to type on the keyboard.

I will certainly be happy and am certainly looking forward to the day when no man sets my schedule. Till then, I am up early, I am groggy, sleepy, with heavy eyelids, writing and hoping to get a lot done so that I don't have to worry about getting such things done after the little monster is awake :-P.

Tired and Trying To Press Onward

I have been very tired lately. This is due to a strange sleeping pattern I am sure. We have been straying up rather late and we get up at four thirty. Then I try and get at least a little work done and then I crawl back into bed and sleep till the baby gets up. For example the night before last I went to bed at 11:30pm, 4:30am, went back to sleep at 7:30am and then Marcus woke me up at 10. Total I got seven and a half hours of sleep, which really isn't bad. But at the same time, it was broke up and left me feeling tired all day. I have been taking naps with Marcus on days I have been really tired, but then I am even less productive (since my most productive time is when he is asleep). Additionally I think that makes things worse, because it is easier for me to stay up late. Yesterday I worked during nap time, was ready for bed by eight thirty when Marcus was put down, but still didn't make it till about 11.

Anyway, a weird thing is happening. About three weeks ago I hurt myself while pushing my mom in her wheelchair. The bruise didn't surface for a few days, and since that time has gotten worse. I now have hard bumps under the bruises. Additionally my ankle is killing me. The only thing I know that might help is staying off of it, but how to accomplish such a feat with a fourteen month old son, I am not sure. Plus there is plenty to do (isn't there always?). I am not sure what is wrong, although it doesn't really matter...

Yesterday I didn't get as much done as I would have liked. Part of that was getting all caught up in research. I get all excited when researching something fun (yesterday it was Champ the Lake Champlain Monster), and then I forget to write and I get behind. So, several blogs were neglected yesterday. Of course, I might neglect a few today since I am falling asleep here, while trying to write.

Till next time...

Neglected You.

I have neglected you. Those few of you who have come back to read what I had to say. It is sad, I haven't posted in awhile, it has been a long while since I posted regularly (and I was doing so well there for awhile). I am sorry faithful readers. Forgive me. I will try and mend my evil ways.

Of course while I wasn't writing things where happening. Lots of little things in life. Those things you don't care about...

Then there were a few larger things in life. I am still battling SPAM. I am not sure why everyone wants to spam me. Maybe it is because I am trying to work from home, so they think that I will let five hundred work from home messages go up on my blogs. But I won't. If I don't know it isn't a scam, I don't want to be advertising it.

I am reading a lot lately. I have finally picked up the Harry Potter bug. You see, when Harry Potter came out I went to a church that actively fought against this book. So, while my friends were reading Harry Potter, I was reading Harry Potter and the Bible, and Why Harry Potter is Truly Evil. I decided that I should take a look. If I advocate thinking for myself...then I should do it. I now know that Harry Potter isn't evil, but I doubt I can convince those who continue to claim so without having every picked the book up, let alone read it. Being a slow reader I am now about a hundred pages into book four.

I am also on a rampage to read self help and improvement books. I love improving myself. Not sure how many of these books really help...but it's worth a try and always good to take in what others are saying.

This weeks book log from the library also includes some books on paper arts and paper mache (for The Artisan Newstand), some monster books (for The Large and Small), a book on sleeping well (I haven't been sleeping well which is why I am up at eleven and getting up at four thirty in the morning, but needing a nap when the baby sleeps, of course I have a feeling two things are against me on this one. First it is that nap, then it is the desire to relax after the baby has gone to sleep. I just am not fast enough in relaxing and being ready for bed, so I take the nap to make up for lost sleep, then I have a hard time sleeping...it is a vicious cycle). The last book was called Clear Blogging, which was a good book though most of the information I had read online while studying blogging (before deciding to do it myself).

Well it is eleven and I should be sleeping...till next time (hopefully tomorrow).

Websites, and the Mundane

Well, I wanted to make sure that everyone was well updated about what is happening with our websites and such. We are keeping two of our blogger blogs (this one and 1001 Things I Hate About Living With My Mom) and we are moving some of the content to a variety of websites!

We are growing up. At least that is how I feel. Things are getting bigger and brighter and more grown up. We have three years three months to get everything earning a decent wage, hopefully it will work out for us!

So, A Little of Everything That Matters will include a variety of things including (but certainly not limited to) movie reviews, product and service reviews, a list of cool blogs, news commentary, zero 2 six (the story of us going from nothing to making it big as it happens), and a wide variety of other cool things!

Then we have The Mommy 'n' Baby Page, The Artisan Newstand (all things Crafty and Artsy), The Large and Small (creatures page that is, dedicated to fantasy, mythology, and folklore beasts and such), The Phat Diaries (dedicated to weight loss and getting healthy), and of course our fantasy fiction at Falon of the Tower !

Of course other things have happened this week. I have had a sick baby, Monday and Tuesday I was helping the in-laws by hauling them around, and this weekend we got some baby free time. We actually went to a jewelry store, a computer store, a little boutique, Michael's (the craft store), and a book store today without the baby. It was great. Those are the types of places where he squirms and makes it hard to thoroughly enjoy. But he spent some time with his Grandpa and his Aunts (well two of four (six if you count my brother's finances.))

Well, I am certainly tired. Talk to you later...have a great one!

It has been awhile

Well it is Thursday and so far this week I haven't written in very many of my Blogger blogs. This is mostly because some very exciting things are happening in our world. First of all The Mommy Page blog is getting replaced by The Mommy 'n' Baby Page. This is an exciting move for us, but means I have a lot of work to do. I need to get these pages formatted so that they do everything I want them to do and that they look how I want them to look and so forth.

Second big change is A Little of Everything That Matters such as movie reviews (currently on Falon of the Tower), product and service reviews, thought provokers (which used to have it's own Blogger blog), News commentary (which also used to have it's own blog This Side of That), as well as a lot more. Eventually the plan is that it will also include The Boring Recount of My Dull Life. But that is down the road a few months. For now, I will be posting here, and I will be doing it much more often then one time a week, contrary to what this post may say to you having been the only one this week.

Third...The Artisan Newstand has been born, which includes Beautiful Beads now, but will also include many other types of Artisan work and Art work. It should be a lot of fun.

All in all, that is as far as I have gotten though I have a lot more plans. We will see where it all takes us!

The end of the Week

The week is drawing to a close and what a week it has been. Monday was a holiday, Tuesday I was sick, Wednesday I helped friends move, yesterday Peter was really sick, today Marcus is sick and Peter only worked five hours (though he is much more functional today then yesterday). I am feeling pretty tired, but have to take my father-in-law to the airport in an hour and a half so I must get some work done before calling it a day. My writing has gone fairly well. Our numbers are looking good and I am certainly feeling good about everything and how it is going.

I finally applied for a blogger position at b5media, and got a reply back. While it will most likely be a few more weeks before I know whether or not I get to blog with them, I am feeling hopeful. The reply e-mail sounded good, and it just might happen. All and all life is moving forward and going well.

I can't wait to get a camera and start having an easier time writing blogs for Silent World and for Beautiful Beads. Of course those aren't the ones I had a hard time writing for this week. This week Thought Provokers has been my hardest blog to write for. I think to myself, oh man girl, it is really bad when you can't think enough to right about it! Then there is A Dim Domination, which I haven't figured out where I want to take it and that makes it incredibly hard. What do you write about when you don't have a topic? Writers block? (That would be interesting since I was thinking of making it into a writing blog).

Anyway....till next time...

Okay the Post that Has Been Ahwile in Coming

This post has been awhile in coming (hense the title), and I wasn't sure that I would actually post it. But here it is. I have been reading a lot of blogs, I mean a lot of them lately (as I should since I love blogging and would like to make it my occupation). Anyway I read a blog post, well more then one. But the one that I am thinking about here is a particular one, and I am sorry to whoever wrote it, since I have no idea where it is so I can't link to it. But it was a blog in the little interesting blogs that Blogger picks out and puts in the right hand corner of the Blogger "Dashboard". I followed the link and got to this blog, whose post that day was about poop, particularly pooping in public. Which of course is a terribly personal thing to blog about, but since that day every time I use a public restroom and every time I poop in general I think about this blog entry. In this entry she tells about a situation that happened when she was young that made her feel that pooping in public was taboo (which it is though rather unspoken in most circles).

So, everytime I enter a public restroom I am thinking about this blog post, which then makes me want to do a blog post of my own and I am thinking about what I would write. This is something I do a lot, I think it has something to do with the desire to make blogging my occupation. I can't wait to have someone ask me, "Oh and what is it you do?" and I can say, "Oh nothing much, I am a Pro Blogger." I can't wait to have them ask, "A what?" to which I can explain that I get paid to sit around at home in pajamas (I don't really wear them, but the image is a good one) and write about whatever I want. I can complain, talk about the boring things that happen in my life, write about things I am doing as of late, be passionate about whatever I want to be passionate about, and so on. I get paid to do what I love doing! I can't wait to say that. Of course I am getting paid to do what I love doing...it just isn't much, at least it isn't much yet.

Oh, sorry got off track there...back to the public restroom story...so, I think we all have our stories about public restrooms and it is just a strange thing that this is such an off limits topic. Why can't we poop in public?

Pickles

I am in quite a pickle. Well sorta two different pickles. The first I will probably solve sometime today. I have a few website pages and a few posts in a notebook, one that has disappeared. To where, I have no idea.

The second is a little harder to do. I need to have people link to me (so that I increase in ratings). I am told that means I need quality pages to link to. Of course I am not sure how to make my blogs a higher quality then they already are. Maybe the informational ones are to personal? More and more people are reading my blogs, maybe I am just being impatient and need to hold my horses? With my new goals set, I am hoping each blog is updated six or more times a week. Which means more to read, more pings, and in theory more readers. I guess we will just have to see.

Of course at the same time, I can try and make my posts of a higher quality. I guess no more shopping lists! :-P

Update: Midway through the day yesterday I found my lost and elusive notebook. It was quite by accident. I was working on a Beautiful Bead post and lifted the lid to the scanner to scan some pictures. Yep, right where I left it, in the scanner!

Calling this the...

Calling this the Boring Recount of My Dull Life, I decided to be crazy. Here it is, just how boring my life can be...

Blogging Addiction

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Of course I took this quiz with dollar signs in mind. I wanted to answer the question: "Do you hope to be able to tell someone you are a "pro-blogger" one day?" But that question wasn't on there...oh well, it was still fun.

Great Ideas

I keep thinking of great ideas, right before I fall asleep or at those times when I struggle to stay awake. I also have great ideas throughout the day, at the restaurant, at the store, but I never have paper. So, those ideas float around in my head for a few minutes and then they are gone. They vanish without a trace and no matter how hard I try to retrieve them it just doesn't work. The ideas have entered into the land of the fog and there they seem to abide forever more. Of course this doesn't help the blogging process.

It has been a great weekend. I love three day weekends. Of course last night was awful. Marcus didn't sleep well, which effects the rest of us. In turn it is just a spiral downhill. It is what I can blame my headache on and what I can blame my desire to go to bed early on.

But, that's just life. That's just the boring recount of my dull life.

Work

During the day I can't write at the computer. It just doesn't work. So, I am writing out blog posts on paper. Marcus just doesn't like the bedroom and fusses when it comes to me using the computer. Today I can't use the computer during nap time either since he doesn't want to go to sleep (he sleeps in our closet and can hear me typing). I figure my best bet is to write everything out and post it in the morning. Then I can make my mornings super productive and get enough posts up. I would love to get 16 posts, pages, and/or articles up a day. I don't know if that is too much or not. We will see as I get back into my functioning schedule (company can mess a schedule up good).