New SEO tools...

I was introduced to a whole new set of SEO tools last night! WOW!!! I'm gonna have a lot of fun with those.

Knoxville Entrepreneurial Women is da bomb! Thanks, Rachel!!!

I didn't have sound when I first watched this. It's really cool and makes a lot of sense. Enjoy!!!

Yikes!! More Job Searches...

It turns out that 20 hours a week doesn't cut it for the various levels of support I'm receiving. I need at least 30 hours a week with benefits. So, I have to keep looking. Even though the position I'm working is likely to move toward full-time, I can't really live on $180/wk. So, add that to the mix.

It turns out that the alarm I've been hearing in the wall since I moved into the house may actually be in the attic. My roommate is also hearing it, and there is a bathroom between our bedrooms. If so, that means that the watch or clock or whatever will be a lot easier to find and remove!!! YEA!!!!!

My sleep is so messed up at this point, that removing that alarm will only be a beginning to getting a full night's sleep. But by removing it, I should get back to normal in a month or so. I'm so exhausted at this point, I can barely function.

Dream I had...

Do you remember "The Thunderbirds" cartoon series? I'm not talking about the animated series, but the one made with marionettes... My dream had some of the same props... Mainly the air-ship. A square-backed thing that had foldable wings and could take off and land vertically in small areas.

My cat Beasley was also in it. It leaked over into the previous dream, helping a group find a "spiritually marked" set of triplets - two boys and a girl.

I didn't fly the craft, and there was some dysfunction (when is there not?) in the people I was helping and the pilot's attitude. I don't remember who the pilot was - I never saw his face, just had the impression of one. The pilot was involved in this quest, and was somehow acquainted with the group of leaders who were questing. He was disturbed by it, and not disinterested, but it somehow bothered him. We weren't going to get the children, just identifying them. He got upset that it took me so long to extricate myself from the group we were helping.

There was some broken china - like it had been dropped. The boxes were on the outside of the craft, and when it was fired up, they fell and broke some of the pieces. The breakage was unintentional, but caused by the pilot not thinking when he started the craft. He took off without me, vertically and loudly, then came back for me.

That, in turn, upset Beasley, and he didn't want to go aboard the craft to leave. I have to say, I even asked myself if I wanted to go aboard, and why the pilot was so upset... I turned to call Beasley. He came partway, then I had to run him down to grab him. He didn't run very fast or far, just enough to let me know he didn't want to get on the craft.

It's not like the next destination was life-or-death, but we were running late...

I wonder what this says about my psyche... I have issues with time, of course, and I wonder why I get upset sometimes. I listen to my cats about others, because they are good judges of character. And what about my identification of the triplets?

Oh well, I'm awake now. Still have sleep in my eyes. but I'm awake. I don't generally report my dreams. I have some whoppers! Maybe I should start posting them?

Health and Partnership...

My Roommate turns out to have high blood pressure. He was feeling poorly, described his symptoms, and I gave him my cuff to take his readings. They were very high. I passed on some HCTZ to see if that would help, and they did after about 3 days. I told him he needs to get seen and get a full workup and a steady source of meds, since I have my own and can't really share...

So, it looks like we are going on a reduction plan of some kind. I need to get active and lose a small person. He could probably stand to lose about the same. We are couch-potatoes... We love our TV shows! And not necessarily the same ones - so we read while the other is watching a favorite show... Not good for our health.

When we've got this set up as a team sport, I'll tell you the plan. For now, it's to watch the diet, and figure out our mis-steps. Upping activity is the other part. I think a 30-minute session before supper would be a good start.

We'll see. We have different schedules, so we have to sort it all out.

That's the news from the front...

Being a Receptionist....

So it ain't rocket science...

Just enough $$ and hours to give me a backup, and enough time to keep going on my SEO and cat stuff.

I'm in the middle of a presentation (powerpoint) right now, to explain and give some framework to the keyword research work I've been doing. This is only the first step, of course...

I'll have to go forward and do a "link program" presentation - there's a lot of work involved in that, and then I'll have to do a presentation on PPC (pay-per-click) advertising programs.

I had no idea that I knew so much! It's a struggle to explain it to other people.

That's my current task. It keeps me busy between the few phone calls and visitors at the office.

I'm grateful for the job, of course!

New Job and Back Pain...

Finally! I got a new job. I start on Tuesday. It's part time, but that's OK. I have so many irons in the fire, so many self-employment gigs going on, that a full-time job would just stress me out.

I had to walk a bit in the last couple of days and I had a "Hen Party" at my home, and had to vacuum. So, my back was about over it. Having had a double-spinal-fusion in 1999, I'm acutely aware of any pain in that part of my body. I was able to cope, and nothing bad happened, but last night, after it was all over, I could barely move. I took a Tylenol, not having any ibuprophen in the house, and that barely took care of it. I ended up taking a prescription pain pill, and going to bed. I slept about 10 hours. That's OK, but sleeping so long can just stiffen me up again.

I'll get some ibuprophen when I shop next time.

Car is in the Shop...

I put the car in the shop tonight. They will be replacing the wheel bearing tomorrow, and I'll pick it up tomorrow night. Not too expensive, but surely inconvenient!

I paid the car note today. That felt really good!

New Month, New Possibilities...

Well, it's now September. Another month that the world has not crashed around my ears, even though my nerves are shot, and the stress is near killer-level.

Faith, that's all it is. Faith. Not mine, I'll tell you...

I think it's God's faith in me that has kept things going...

I have another interview today. It's for a part-time job. Enough $$ to keep things going, and enough time off to attend to the entrepreneurial pots my fingers are in...

Someday, before I'm old and gray, I'd like to have enough coming in that I didn't have to worry about the bills. I will be able to pay them as they come in the mail. I won't have loans, or indebtedness beyond the month's income. I'll even have savings.

Well, the only way to make that happen is to make it happen now - with what I have. Live below my means, as they say.