I know, I suck at updating. And I apologize for the influx of Check It Out posts (BTW, for those who have forgotten, those are posts that are put up solely for the links that are in them, and can be skipped over without missing anything interesting out of my life- usually). I’m actually running an experiment to see just how much “advertisers” are willing to pay for one of those posts on a general, non-related, PR2 blog. Every time I get an offer, I up the price by several dollars. Eventually I should find the maximum price that someone is willing to pay, which will satisfy my curiosity and my wallet. I do try to follow them up with a legit post though, so that you all aren’t too mad at me.

What’s Going On:

1. I just bought 3 more domains. 2 for niches which are related to regular websites that my friends own, 1 is AffableBooks.com, which will be a site with recommendations for only good books. A bit of description, a bit of review, maybe some sort of rating system- but only good books. It’s not up yet, so I wouldn’t bother typing in the domain. The other two are more likely to be profitable, but if they’re not, at least I can boost up my friends’ sites.

2. One of those niches is related to a personal trainer friend of mine. If you’re interested in exercise video downloads, I recommend checking out TotallyFitWithCarol.com. Carol is made of awesome, and is the mother of two of my best friends- both professional writers (CJ is the author of Bound by Guilt, and her sister Tracy is a freelance magazine writer who also has a column in the new Suzy magazine). I’m trying to get her to set up an affiliate program for her videos. BTW- what I love about her videos is that she shows you multiple ways to do the same exercise, so that people at various levels of fitness and flexibility can participate.

3. I’ve been working my butt off on my Disney site. One of the new posts is about 13k words at this point, and it’s still growing as new search terms show up for it (anything that looks like a question I put up as a Q&A). And you wonder why I never post here anymore?

4. I’ve learned to crochet, and re-learned how to knit. Dad taught me the crochet (family tradition), and YouTube re-taught me how to knit. I’m currently crocheting a bed scarf and knitting a baby blanket.

5. Epic Mickey makes me cuss. The game is fun, but really, really aggravating.

6. I just finished 1 month gluten free. I’m about 1 1/2 weeks back into gluten, and I’ve decided that gluten and I don’t mix very well. Nothing too bad, but a lot of little things, and an overall attitude problem since re-introducing it. Luckily, I don’t seem to have any problems with having it one or two days- it’s the ongoing eating it that’s an issue, so I don’t think that I’ll have to be strict about it- just keep it out of my regular meals.

What’s Not Going On:

Hubs and I have decided to not go to Disney World this year. We’re trying to save up enough to jump over the final hurdle in our debt. Once it’s all paid off, we intend to celebrate by going back into debt. No, seriously. We’re probably going down to WDW and having an awesome trip to celebrate- and we are saving up some cash for the trip, but it’s not likely to be enough to pay for the whole thing. Still, it’s the thought that counts, right? And after that, we’re going to look at buying a house. We were kind of looking now because, well, face it, the market isn’t going to get much lower unless total disaster strikes, and decent homes are now approaching our budget level. But we’re just not thrilled enough with the homes in our current price range, so we’ll have to wait until we’re totally out of debt and hope that the market hasn’t spiked or that the interest rates haven’t gone up.

Still, my sites are doing well (tax season is always good for my main niche), and life is pretty much good. I could use more sleep, but I’m hardly alone in that.