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Oh, this is just genius. I check my stats several times a day. It’s like other people watching tv, or farting. I just do it without thinking about it.

So, I check my keyword activity, and get this: Someone landed on this blog by searching for “how to find a prostitute in lancaster, pennsylvania” .

I’m not kidding. He (or she) landed on my “No Prostitute Whatsoever” post- a video on visually checking your spelling that I stole from Kathy at Screw You! (hm… maybe that had something to do with it?) a while back.

OMG. That so made my day.

In other news, I just loaded up my articles to my garb site. Go ahead and check it out if you’re interested. It’s not nice and polished yet, but it’s looking pretty good (I think). I have a few more that I want to do, but they have more to do with link lists and pictures of my garb than anything else.

I started having a little too much fun when writing the descriptions for the SiteMap though. For example, one page starts with the description “Shiver me ta-tahs!”. ‘Nuff said. If you want to see it, go ahead and click here, or go through the above link.

And to all the Lancastrians who just want to get laid. Know this, prostitution is illegal. If you still want to go through with it, and are too lazy to go pick people up in a bar like a normal person, most of the professionals hang out at or near Water Street. It’ll be cheaper if you sit on your porch and wait for the crack heads to come ask you for money though. An aquaintance just got 2 for $10. Deals abound for the patient. I don’t condone it, but I hate to see people waste their money.

Hey all! I’ve just listed my first batch of hand made jewelry on Ebay. You can see the complete listings here. That isn’t an affiliate link, but the auction links themselves are. You can also search for the username Talara, but the About Me page doesn’t show pictures.

I’ve also got a Tibetan singing bowl/meditation bowl up.

And if you’re wondering what I’ve been up to? I’ve been writing articles for the site that I linked up there. It takes forever, but I’ve only got… um… 5 more to go. And they’re how-to’s, so I should be done by the weekend. Then it’s editing, posting, and figuring out how to promote. I think this is my first fully built affiliate site ever. I keep getting bored after getting them organized and color coordinated and never get around to the parts that make them worth visiting. Though, for some reason, I do get sales through them. Weird. I even got a sale through a site that had NOTHING on it! Prepped it, but never built it…

Anyway, and I’m so proud of this, this is my first ever proper logo. As in, more than simply a cropped picture. Yay me! I keep loading the page and just staring it it. Ok, so it’s not overly professional looking or anything, but I did it. That’s good enough for me.

Here’s a sampling (not all) of what I have up now… not even close to what I haven’t photographed yet.

Mahogany obsidian. Isn’t it a gorgeous stone? I made matching earrings too, but the photo came out a bit blurry. Gold fill wire, not 14, 18, or 24 kt (sadly).

Cats eye cluster earrings. I probably won’t make them again, since the retail cost between the cats eye and actual gemstones is only about $0.50 per pair. Might as well go with the gems, huh? Pretty though. My niece talked me into giving her a similar pair along with a pair of rose quartz ones. So much for profit!

You know those flat marbles they sell near the fake flowers in craft shops? Yup. I bought a bag to practice on and got more compliments on them than I got on the real gemstones! So, I made more. Regular craft wire, which is a pain to use, but I like the pewter look.

I’m not sure what the blue stone is. I think it’s blue topaz, but it looks more like aquamarine (though I know that wouldn’t have been bundled with amethyst, citrine, and quartz), and sprinkled with black obsidian. Middle is mother of pearl and seed beads, and the right is amethyst and black obsidian. I actually sold three of those to a lady at work, along with matching earrings. She was stunningly quick to pay, so I have to wonder if I was under pricing myself?

Tuesday’s post talked about the 6 reviews that I wrote and sent in to AC. Now, my food product reviews never get high offers (generally around $3 each), and the cafe review was non-exclusive so I expected about the same from that. However, my food product reviews tend to garner the most hits outside of a few guides I wrote for Walt Disney World, and a How To on making tarot cards. Therefore, they totally count for me.

So, I wrote those 6 reviews and knew that I’d get offers on them, no matter how low. And I did (For a grand total of $19 for 6 reviews. Anyone surprised? Not me.). The thing is, when I work up Sunday morning, I had an offer in my email for $5 for a little link on my chatting blog. That post is archived so far back that it will only ever be discovered by search engine, and for that I don’t care. Easy money? Totally.

I also have a load of Squidoo lenses. Way more than I need, though I plan to build a few more. The thing is, there were quite a few that I just didn’t want to mess with any more. So I built another lens to sell the lenses that I know longer want. None of them made me any money other than their share of the revenue share. So I listed two of them at $5, one at $10, and three as free to good homes. Seriously, I just wanted them out of my listing so that I could concentrate on the others.

Tuesday I got an email from someone interested in purchasing one of the lenses. Sweet. I sent him the details, then gave him the link to the sale page in case he was interested in the others. He was. I sold the two at $5 each, and he wanted the free ones as well (Seriously, they were free!). The only lens he didn’t take was the $10 lens, and I had actually said on the page that I didn’t really want to sell it. So maybe he was just being polite?

Either way, that $15 was almost like out of no where. Yes, I did a lot of work. But it was all long in the past and without the intention of making money (post link) or selling (lenses). Once I decided to sell, it wasn’t with the intention of making a lot of money. Just of getting something out of it.

On top of this, my BANS sites have started pulling in a bit of cash. Nothing to write home about, but every day I seem to be getting closer to my goal of paying off the laptop with my writing/site building. Once that’s managed, I’ll be working towards making a viable income from it.