Umm, about today’s plan?? Not happening. There is work to do, so like most freelancers, that’s what I’m doing. Amazingly enough, I’m living life, and that takes money. In fact, it takes incredibly large quantities of it to live in the manner to which I wish to become accustomed

Perhaps it’s time to look into the silver market. Silver holds it’s value, you know, because it’s a non-renewable resource. The government can’t just decide to make more. When inflation rises, so does the value of precious metal. And then the same amount of silver would buy the same amount of stuff. Which makes it a really good investment. But not so good for buying things, because, really, it’s heavy, yk? And also, what are you gonna do, shave a bit of it off at the check-out in Wal-mart??

Let’s KISS again, because yesterday it just worked.

Get the books I need out of those boxes I brought in, and put the boxes away
Work on lesson plans
Sew. And also sew some more.

And also, I have a question. Why do they write the instructions on under eye cream in a size of print that no one my age can possible read? And here is another question: why when I look at these holiday gift baskets do I not find one for the elimination of prune face? Seriously, they have every other kind of basket, from get well baskets to new baby baskets to sympathy baskets. Hmm, do you think the sympathy baskets would be appropriate? Bwahahahaha, I am on it this morning, aren’t I?

My face is even redder now than it was a few minutes ago. Those of you who read my knitting blog may have noticed a glaring error there the other day. I mentioned a pulse oximeter and mentioned how it was so small it had to be quieter than the nebulizer we had used on my daughter. Umm, d’uh, and don’t I look dumb? Yeah, cause I visited the page, and read the description of a small nebulizer, which I am still sure is much quieter than the one we have BUT it has nothing at all to do with oximeters. Sigh.

Now here’s the thing. No one mentioned it. Roughly 600 people read it, and not one commented on that crazy post.

Heh. One of my friends from church just called. She wants me to hook up her internet for her. I’ll go over tonight and help her with it. I figure I can at least call tech support and get them to walk me through it. It’s not like she’s asking me to do a power supply repair, and it’s a fine excuse to get out of the house, slip into a store and buy myself some eyeshadow. Muhahahahaha

This is my fifth post today, and I am thinking it will be my last one here, though I am promising nothing, because………….well, that’s just how I am. So far, I have wished for new outdoor furniture, and gone outside to sit on the old. I have wished for a fast new car and flashed back to my late teens. I’ve wished for freedom from some demons I didn’t even ralize I had in a post that took me totally by surprise and I have wished to travel. This post is about what I don’t wish to have– a truck toolbox. Ya know why? ‘Cause I don’t have a truck. HA!

I’m about ready to do some more shopping, and I mean in a large way. I may have mentioned that we have a small tv set, about 20 inches. It’s the old fashioned kind, the thick ones, I forget what they are called. It’s maybe 5 years old??? That set has been fine by me until now, because I am just not enamored of the tv most nights. Lately though, I’ve been curious about who makes the best lcd tvs, because *cough* I can’t see the tv so well *cough*.

I’ve been having some visual issues lately. I can still see, mind you, I just need a bit more light to do it. It’s led to some funny moments, such as this one: I asked dh to put a second light in the bathroom the other night, and he reminded me that when we moved in, I told him two lights there was too much, and to take one out. I just looked at him. And finally I told him my 40 year old eyes were not to be held responsible for anything my 35 year old mouth had said. And then I remembered how I thought my FIL was crazy for fussing at me about 10 years ago for reading in front of a window in mid-afternoon without turning the lamp on. It was too dark for him to read, therefore, it must be too dark for me. Umm, then: no; now: yes. And, I’m pretty sure they don’t make glasses for this, ya’ll, though I suppose I could start wearing a miner’s light. What a great fashion look that would be, eh?

I just visited a site that told me how much this domain is worth, and I am a little disappointed. You will remember from other posts that I watch these sorts of things because….well, because I have an ego. At LeapFish, they weigh a variety of factors and give you a quote. According to them, Midlife Musings has a value of $21. Umm, compared to the hours and hours I have poured into this site, I am worth negative pennies per hour. My longest running site, CassKnits! is worth a mere $912. Good thing I’m not interested in selling, right?

Anyway, you can get other info at LeapFish, too. They’ve looked at and compared the various domain registrars and hosting services, and listed their top picks. They have tutorials and articles on choosing domain names, as well. It’s too late for me, but if you are thinking of starting a website, you should give them a quick read.

EDIT 7/4 I totally entered my sites incorrectly. When I only out in the domain name, the values were $989 and $10,908. I’m still not selling, LOL!

I was checking Google for myself a couple of weeks ago, to show my air conditioner man what it was possible to do as far as search engine optimization just using keywords in the meta of a site. He has a site now, and when I checked the header on it, there were keywords there, but they were not the ones people would naturally type into search engines. Since most new traffic comes from search engine results, his traffic was abysmal, and I was offering to help him with it. Here’s what shocked me: I was totally expecting to see this site in the results for midlife crisis, probably on the 3rd or 4th page. Nope, I was number 4 on page one. I giggled about that for several hours.

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