Don't Put All of Your Eggs in One Basket

You'll notice a few minor changes to my blog. I won't name names because there is no reason to, but I woke up to find that I was removed from an advertiser without a given reason. So I asked them about it and got the same results. Then I did a little research and learned that if you blog about something they don't like, you're dropped. Or if you have a sudden leap in visitors as I did when I wrote about actress Megan Fox (yes, she's that hot!), you're dropped.

The funny thing is I remembered John Chow's knowledge about not putting all of your eggs into one basket, so I didn't. The money that the advertiser held was ghost money to me, but when I reached the payout limit I was removed from their system and told I would not receive any money. Funny that it took me over two years to get to that very small amount. So in reality they received free advertising from my blog. I was so very generous!!! LOL

The morale to this story is, if you're putting your eggs into one basket and you are relying on that money, please don't! I learned many years ago not to rely on extra money because in the end it's never there. Now if I have it in hand, then that's great! But if it's on hold somewhere I just base my income on what I do already have and go from there.

DON'T PUT ALL OF YOUR EGGS INTO ONE BASKET!

Gone Are the Days of No Sleep

Today we went back to our 630am to 5pm shift at work. While I liked being able to get off at 430pm, the getting up at 430am to be at work by 6am was draining my energy level....and it definitely showed in my work performance.

Today I noticed a big improvement in my performance at work and I wasn't tired one bit. Soooo it's great to be able to get back to a somewhat decent work schedule. Plus, we're working 4 days instead of 5, so I'll be able to get some errands taken care of on my days off.

On a nice note: Got a package in the mail today from my boss at www.carefair.com. She sent me a nice gift basket full of gourmet snack goodies, so we'll be enjoying that in the days to come.