Holy moly the girls are 11 months old today!!! I’m going to be so sad next month on their 1st birthday. But you know, a happy kind of sad. Their party is going to be so much fun! I cannot wait! It’s going to be at Preston’s parents house and everyone is going to be there. My parents, brother, sister, and her two boys will be living down here by then too so it’s really just going to be a lot of fun. Hopefully Ashton will be allowed to go… but we’ll see. We’re going down there that Friday and not coming back until Sunday, so it’ll be a whole weekend type thing. Basically, I’m really looking forward to it!

So yesterday my Dad and brother flew back to WA to help my Mom get the house ready to sell. My Dad and brother will be back in two weeks, and then my Mom and sister will be here shortly after that. My parents decided to move down here and my sister and her boys are coming along too. It’s going to be really nice to have them closer!

Preston started tearing his office apart yesterday because he wanted to rearrange it. So, while he was doing that it gave me the urge to do some serious spring cleaning. I did the kitchen, breakfast area, and downstairs living room yesterday and it is sparkling. Seriously, if you saw it your eyes would hurt from how shiny it is. Today I’ll probably tackle the dinning room, 1st floor bathroom, and the entry way. Although I really don’t like to clean, it’s very satisfying to see the extremely clean kitchen every time I go down stairs. I keep a clean house, but this is like a whole new level of clean. Seriously. Spring cleaning. Try it.

Okay I need to get off here and work on some orders but I may need a Pepsi for energy in order to get through them. I have a headache today and working with small objects while you have a headache is not something I would advise. I think it’s a “lack of caffeine headache”. I probably need drug rehab for caffeine addiction.

I think I need some sort of addiction treatment for bow makers. I seriously love love love to make bows. Who knew it could be so fun!? There is something very rewarding about spending time and effort making something and then having people actually end up buying the things you make. Honestly, I wasn’t sure how things would go with the boutique. It’s been open almost a month and I’m really just so pleased with it. I know I’ve said that before but I really am. I’m slightly worried about what if I start to get too busy, but that would be a good thing, right?

Anyway I’m going to put the ribbon down and go snuggle up to the hubby!

P.S. Did anyone watch House tonight? I have missed a couple episodes that I still have to watch online, and I guess I missed where Wilson started to date Cut Throat Bitch. I’m so not feelin’ that.

It’s been so nice out lately. I’m really loving that summer is coming up. We don’t have a back yard to speak of here, which is a bummer. I would really like to have a place to BBQ and something like this teak patio furniture to relax in the back yard. We have the balconies but it’s nothing compared to a yard. I took the girls out on Saturday to play in the grass over by the town center. They loved it! I need to find a park with baby swings. The ones I have seen so far just have the regular swings. I can’t wait until we get a place where we can buy a swing set. It’ll be awhile though… I’m just wishful thinking!
My parents are going to start to look for houses down here soon. I’ll admit, it’s really making me wish I could get out of this 3 story condo and get into something with a yard. I really hate having 3 floors. Don’t get me wrong, I love this place but the girls will need a lot more room to play out doors when they are bigger. Our lease is up next winter so who knows. Maybe we can get in a buying position before then. Wishful thinking again!

As you all know, I have done post for Pay Per Post in the past. I haven’t done any for about a month now. I really liked doing posts for them occasionally because it gave me a little extra spending money, which was nice.
Google doesn’t like companies like Pay Per Post. I’m not exactly sure why. So for whatever reason, if Google finds that your site is doing posts for PPP, they knock your Google Page Rank down to a big fat 0. This is bad because places like PPP use Google PR to determine what your blog is “worth”. Advertisers that put out opportunities want to know that they are paying for a high traffic blog to talk about their product/website. 99% of them use Google PR as a guideline to determine who can take their opportunity that they have posted. I had a Google PR of 3, which is pretty darn good for just a regular ‘ol blog. I used to be qualified for tons of opportunities on PPP, some which paid up to $90 for one post. Since I recently got my PR knocked down to a 0, I am qualified for 5 opportunities, all of which are completely random crappy opps and pay the minimum of $5. I’m sorry but I’m not going to blog about european pay day loans for $5. I don’t need spending money that bad.
Tons of bloggers have had their PR knocked down to 0. PPP knows this, yet they still allow advertisers to use Google PR as a guideline when using their website to find bloggers. Sure, PPP put out their own ranking system called “Real Rank” but advertisers are not familiar with it and still are allowed to base their opportunities on Google’s PR.
It’s my opinion, and the opinion of many, many other bloggers that PPP should remove Google PR from their site completely. It’s not fair to their bloggers, the people who actually make their website what it is. I was one of the lucky ones for a while who didn’t get “caught” by Google. Now I can see why everyone was so mad the first time this happened.
I won’t be working for PPP again until this changes. They would be smart to get rid of Google PR as a guideline and use only Real Rank and Alexa. Pretty soon they will be forced to do something because all their bloggers will eventually get axed by Google and by then they might have left a sour taste in the mouths of all their highly qualified bloggers and not have anyone left when they finally decide to do something to fix this extremely irritating problem.
In the mean time, I will continue to do link insertions for PayU2Blog and I highly recommend them to any other bloggers.

When I was getting my business cards printed, I looked at several places to find the best price. While researching I came across a logo design website where you can create your own logo and business card right there on the site. They have this incredibly easy web based application where you basically just drag and drop the things you want on your business card. They have lots of symbols you can choose from to create your own logo image. This makes it really easy for people who don’t have a graphic design program on their computer, or who just aren’t confident enough to create their own logo and business card from scratch.
I did a quick logo and business card to show you an example. This is probably doesn’t give an accurate picture of just how much you can do on this site, but I just wanted to make something to show you. You can do sooo much more with this site than what I did on the example.
Read the rest of this entry »