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Feel free to read this guys, but it’s not likely to do you any good. Or interest you in any way shape or form. Except Travis, who may want to include information from the comment trail in one of his stories.

Every year just prior to leaving on our trip to Disney World, I get my hair cut. And then dye my hair.

Our first trip to WDW, my hot pink hair with black stripes had faded enough that it needed to be redyed, and I picked out a luscious burgandy that earned oodles of compliments, but also stained everything it touched. For 2 months.

The succeeding trips were varying shades of bright red and more muted burgandies.

So here’s the thing. Hubs and I agreed that I should maintain a semblance of normality for this trip to Walt Disney World since we’re planning on getting some good pictures of us. And while I love the thought of my future children looking through a photo album (or these days- digital frame) and getting freaked out by mom’s blue hair, the inlaws are pretty old fashioned when it comes to things like that. And they sit through our hundreds of photos after every visit.

But. I love funky hair. And I’m too lazy to do the bleach thing anyway. So I’m on the lookout for the best BRIGHT, funky box dye- no bleach necessary. Preferably something in the reds since black fades too quick and is too hard to cover (and hubs doesn’t like it anyway). Something that goes with warm skin tones if possible. And believe me, I know it’s not easy. Usually the more interesting colors lean towards cool tones and purples.

Now- I found a color that I fell in love with from Herbal Essences. Problem is, it faded to boring within a week. An attractive boring, but NOT a fun color. And I have a fear of Feria since my hair practically grows out damaged.

So ladies (and gents if you’re so inclined), please throw me your best suggestions for awesome box dyes. Preferably the number code as well as color name and brand just in case I have to order it.

Thanks very much!

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I’m thinking of canceling a few half-baked websites. I started them with the great idea of just using WordPress to build regular websites. You know, stick a few good articles on them, update as I feel led, but more or less let them sit like a normal site.

Thing is, after the first few articles/posts, I lost interest. One site has only 4 articles, 2 of which are basically affiliate pitches. Another site has about 1/2 dozen detailed, step-by-step articles, a few of which are relatively popular with the search engines. Another is just junk, and that’s going away no matter what.

The one site, I figure I can submit the articles to Associated Content as non-exclusive just for a little dosh. A very little, but it’s better than what I’m getting now. AC seems to rank well on Google, so I’d probably get some decent page views (I can’t believe the articles that grab the page views on AC!), which only translate to cash on my site if someone clicks an ad. I think it happened once.

The other site is the one I’m unsure about. Like I said, it’s getting decent search engine traffic, and I’ve had compliments on how clearly the instructions were written. And no, this is not my craft site. Anyway, I was thinking of submitting them to AC as non-exclusive for the same reason as the site above, and yet…. I hate just handing them all of my good material.

I signed up with eHow a while ago, but never submitted. I’ve been hearing that they’re non-exlusive, but I don’t know if they’d accept previously published articles. I have links to some of them on this blog (way down in the archives), and I could simply take the posts where they’re written and turn them into links directing the searchers to eHow until it stops getting search traffic (at which point, I’d remove the blog entirely).

I’ve heard good things about eHow, and I think these directions would perform well there. But I just don’t know if they’d take pre-pubbed articles like that. Their faq is a little unclear, and I suppose I could try contacting them, but I was hoping that someone here would know? Please? If you know, tell me, and I’ll think really positive things about you until I forget. Pretty please?

Also, I’m up for any other suggestions. I considered combining them all into one big mesh since they’re all search traffic, but that just seems like too much effort for too little pay out. I’d rather be a small cog in a huge, well oiled machine, than a small cog in the middle of a swamp.

My ears are open, and my mouth is closed. For once.

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A few days ago, I asked whether it was better to buy from a brick and mortar store, or order online. Well, I stumbled across the post where Miss Snark explains it all (I knew she talked about it!).

Miss Snark said:

First, authors aren’t paid based on where their books are sold, they are paid on the basis of cover price OR net proceeds. Net proceeds is used when big volume retailers (think BN, Borders, WalMart, Costco) buy the book at a steep steep discount (often 60% off cover prices). Author royalty rates for those buys are less than they are for other buys made by people who get a smaller discount (ie indie stores, libraries).

So, if you buy a book online from BookSense, you’re contributing more to the author’s bottom line than if you buy it online from BN. Same place, different vendor, different discount, different result.

Same for online preorders – from whom you order is the key.

Ahah! So, my favorite authors will benefit more from orders placed elsewhere than they will if I buy from the convenient source. But, I don’t have to feel guilty about not buying in a brick and mortar store (as we don’t have any indie book stores around here). Yay!

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