Archive for May, 2008
Being a webmaster, it is important that I am aware of the current search engines news. Things can change on a daily basis that can affect my search engine rankings and it is important to know what I can do to ensure that I get the most traffic out of my search engine listings.
What I like to do to supercharge my website traffic is take advantage of the many RSS submission sites that are available online to keep as many sites updated as to what I am writing about on my blog. That way, my site can be found easily as well as indexed quickly by the search engines.
I also make sure that I take the time to learn any of the new social media marketing strategies as they come out. My site has already benefited from the many social bookmarking services online and I see that this will be a future marketing avenue for me and my sites in the future.
Now, I don’t think that a death in the family is something to celebrate, but I found myself in that situation. You see, my great aunt passed away one week ago, and it turns out that she left me a bit of money in the will. We had always been very close, so I will miss her, but I also think that it is even more important to do something productive with the money that she left me.
On one hand, if I were to reduce debt for myself, it would be a blessing. Not only would it ease my financial burden, but it should leave me with some extra money each month to either spend or reduce my debts further.
But the other option available to me would be to use the money to start property investing. In fact, there would be enough money that I could own multiple properties at the beginning and benefit from the extra monthly income.
I guess I will just have to weigh the pros and cons, and make my decision from there.
My daughter and I are frequent visitors to various thrift stores throughout the city. We love looking through the racks to see the different varieties and we often get some great deals on some very expensive clothing.
One day, while browsing through the racks, my daughter found some mma clothing. As she is an avid fan of martial arts, you would have thought that Christmas came early this year. I have never seen her quite this excited about clothes before and I knew that we were not leaving the store without every single article that she had found, whether it fit or not.
When we got home, she could not wait to show her dad what she had found. Some of the clothes ended up fitting and she used the ones that did not fit to decorate her mixed martial arts room with. It looks incredible and I told her that I was proud of her creativity. She definitely has the most unique room of any girl that I know.
There are many pain treatment Orange County websites. I know this because I was doing a search on it yesterday, as it is something that I am looking into for a friend of mine. She has been diagnosed with cancer and has severe back pain. I wanted to find a place where she could go to relax and that would help her to cope with her pain.
She was so grateful that I took the time to do this for her and I told her that I would be there for her through every single step of her treatment. I do not want her to ever feel lonely or afraid and I always want to make sure that she has someone to listen to her or help her cry or do the small things for her when she can’t do the herself.
After all, if she cannot rely on her friends, who can she count on? I will be there for her every day.
Here is a question for you. If you had enough money to do whatever you wanted, would you be driven in a limo or would you drive yourself? It doesn’t matter what kind of car you would pick or what your limo might be, the question is, would you or wouldn’t you drive?
Myself? I’d do both. I love to drive a good car that handles well and is fun to drive. Old muscle cars are awesome and high end cars like Mercedes are very relaxing and comfortable to take on the road too.
However, there are days that I could certainly make more of my day by working in the car rather than driving to and from work or on trips. I also have days where I don’t feel so great thanks to some bodily injuries and those days would be great to have a driver and limousine at my service to take me where ever I needed to go.
When I was in college, I knew that I wanted to go into the commerce field, but I was not exactly sure what I wanted to do. I decided to take the mandatory first year commerce classes and thought that I would decide throughout the year exactly what I wanted to be when I grew up.
During that year, I spent time with a lot of people who had professions in the commerce field. I figured if I could shadow some of them, it would give me a better idea about what I wanted to do for the rest of my working life.
By far, the person that I found most interesting was a commodities broker. It seemed like he had it all together and out of all the people that I shadowed, he seemed to be the one that loved his job the most. My decision was made by the end of the year. I knew exactly what I wanted to be and I just hoped that one day, I would love my job as much as he does.
Being a business owner has its’ perks, but it also has its’ responsibilities. As an employee, you don’t have to worry about something being broken, or the call at four in the morning when there is a fire. Instead, you get to sit at home and enjoy your time off - something that I don’t get to do.
A good example would be the phone call that I had just an hour ago. The marketing department was having problems with the Asterisk hardware that we have installed for our VOIP enabled phone lines. So, I was called in to check it out.
After a number of phone calls, we have a technician on the way, though I wonder if it would just be simpler to just order a new one. Anyway, it looks like we will have to sent the marketing department home early - no phones, no possibility of telemarketing.
I am not the most organized person in the world. Well, okay, so I’m the least organized person on planet Earth. I’m missing the base pair genetic sequences for tidy and orderly.
This nullifies the “parent tapes” playing in my head that say, “Everything in its place, and a place for everything.” It sounds so easy, but making that happen all by myself gives me nightmares.
Since I spend more time in front of my computer than anyplace else in my home — yes, more time than the kitchen, even — I would love to tidy up my desk.
Unfortunately, at this point in time, I live in a single room on a multi-function futon. That means it doubles as my bed and my office. Sometimes finding a place to stretch out at bedtime is a challenge. Which is why I need place to charge all my electronic gizmos to minimize cords around my bed. Then at least my cords would be organized. That’s a start…
When my brother was younger he would watch the horse races on TV just for something to do. We did not have a lot of channels on our television back then, and so you would just watch whatever happened to be on. He used to think that he was a great horse racing tipster just because he watched it on TV and we used to make a lot of fun of him behind his back.
To this day, he still tries to hand out horse racing tips, even though to this day he has never set foot at a real race track. He thinks that he knows everything just from what he watched on TV way back in the day when he was just a kid and I think it would be so funny to actually take them to a track and watch him make bets.
I am sure it wouldn’t take long before he would be asking other people for racing tips, as he would soon realize that he doesn’t know everything that he thinks he knows. Hmm…maybe that is what we should do for his birthday, just to watch him make a fool of himself. Maybe Mr. Know it all doesn’t know as much as he thinks he knows.
You open your Internet browser and type in lingerie - wholesale. You choose a dealer with the styles you know he will like. How many negligees does one need for a 3-day tryst? You shiver with anticipation.
Finally the weekend arrives. You get to the hotel first to make your final preparations. You don the first negligee, barely able to contain your excitement.
There is a knock at the door. You call out, “Who is it?” You hear your husband respond, “I have the papers you requested.”
You unlock the door and take a pose as you say, “Come in.”
He freezes, his throat working but no sound comes out.
You say, “Lock the door. We don’t want my…husband walking in on us.”
His eyes widen as he finally understands the game. He locks the door and says, “We wouldn’t want that.”
He admires your negligee. “Very nice.”
You sidle up to him, unbuttoning his shirt. “I’m glad you like it.”
The negligee doesn’t last 30 seconds.
