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Working on new blogs

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Did I tell you that I’ve been slowly working on creating three new blogs? Yes that’s right folks, soon I will officially have 8 blogs … oh actually 9 but the 9th one is for a separate post.

One of the new sites is going to be my husbands. At this point it’s called Guitar Licks. He’s going to write about music, musicians and I suppose the various types of guitars. He’s also trying to think of a way to teach guitar online, so the site will probably have guitar tabs and possibly video of him teaching parts of songs. Maybe he’ll take requests if there’s a song that you want to learn?

Another blog that I’ve decided to create is a celebrity blog. At the moment it’s tentatively named Celebrity Scoop but I might change the name. If anyone has suggestions please let me know. I’ve found that I like reading about all the crazy thing celebrities end up doing and I thought, why not write about it? So I’m creating a site that will hopefully have fairly up to date news on celebrity sitings and happenings. I’m sure I’ll have lots of stories about which celebs are feuding or causing scenes at the latest hot spots. I’ll probably have updates on celeb cosmetic surgeries too as in “who just had nose surgery” or breast augmentation? Will any of my readers be interested in visiting a celebrity blog written by me?

The final blog is going to be a combination of internet tips, “how to” articles, nifty techno gadgets and will be a front for my web design and site repair business that I suppose I can say that I’ve just started this month. I hope that some of you might end up wanting my services. I haven’t set any prices just yet but they will be reasonable.

I’m currently working on 4 blogs for a good friend and he’s officially my first client. So I’m working on his sites, and working on my own – mostly his right now. Busy busy!





It’s a rainy day

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I’d love to say rain rain go away, come again another day … but it hasn’t really rained here much for a while so I guess it’s ok that it’s raining. It’s kind of depressing though. It was dark and gloomy all day, and by 4:30 in the afternoon I was turning the lights on in the room that I was in.

I haven’t uploaded the photo to my computer yet, but I took a really nice photo of the rain drops against the glass of our bedroom window earlier. I’m certain that it’s going to turn out really nice.

I would have taken the photo from our enclosed front porch but when I went out there at about 2 pm this afternoon the inside glass was all fogged up. Could it have still been fogged up from when Chris was out there at 9:30 this morning putting on his shoes and leaving for work? I don’t think so. I think maybe someone ducked onto our enclosed porch to get out of the rain and fogged up the room with their moist breath. Strange.

Have you purchased items online for your pets?

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A few years ago I tried a service that let me purchase my groceries online. It came in very handy when I was busy – working long hours and with other commitments that I had to make. Who had time to go to the grocery store? I didn’t use the service for long though because I found that I preferred to pick out my own produce. The canned, dried and packaged goods were fine, but the produce wasn’t always items that would have been my first choice.

The reason I’m bringing this up is because I just found a site that offers online pet supplies. If I had a dog or cat I might use a service like this- particularly because most of the items for dogs,cats and other pets are already prepackaged so it’s not like one item is better or riper than the other as was my experience with online grocery shopping.

I know that a lot of my visitors have dogs and cats so I thought you might be interested in hearing about Vetsnab. Their pet supply items are competitively priced, and you can get many of the same items that you would normally purchase from your veterinarians office or a store. You can purchase, pet vitamins, pet supplements, pet medications, pet accessories, pet nutritional products, and pet toys. All of the products are made by well known companies such as Pfizer, Nutramax, Merial and others.

Do any of you use companies such as Vetsnab to get pet supplies online? I just remembered that I have used an online pet supply company in the past. I purchased special UVB bulbs for my reptiles.

A community for families in Japan

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I’ve come across a site for English speaking families in Japan. The site is located at http://www.piqniq.jp. The site design is simple in it’s layout and seems to be very user friendly.

Families living in Tokyo or any other area of Japan can get online and talk with other English speaking people. They might start a conversation about raising children, or talk about great places to go while in Japan, even the ultimate family getaway.

The goal of the site is to create a community that English speaking families in Japan can use to help them in their day to day life within the country. It’s not always easy to make your way in a country if you don’t speak the national language so it makes sense to get online and talk with other people that are making their way just as you are. You can discuss ways to find babysitters or daycare centers, doctors or dentists, and even talk about schools and activities to do with the kids.

I can see this site being a life saver for couples who have moved to Japan to work but don’t know anyone and perhaps feel lonely and out of place is a society that is very different from the one they left behind.

Give me some ideas?

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Speaking of money- as in my last post. I’m still trying to find ways to increase my income. Wait – what income am I talking about increasing? I don’t have an income! LOL

Are you making some money on the internet through your blog or websites? If you are – how are you doing it? I know a lot of people us a combination of Google adsense or yahoo ads and other text or banner ads.

Which ones work best for you?

Have you made enough extra money that you could actually pay a bill or treat yourself or your family to something nice regularly because of what you’ve done on your website? Tell me about it please.

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