The Halloween issue of the APPP went out yesterday. I changed the format a bit and gave all the topics seasonal titles instead of the usual section titles.

I’ve noticed that with all the articles I am sent almost constantly I never received seasonal articles. I am constantly bombarded with marketing and business articles, rarely ever to I receive articles about women or women’s issues, parenting, or even fun human interest pieces.

I rarely write my own business articles unless I have something to talk about that I don’t see being covered anywhere else. Recently I wrote an article about how people are marketing ‘Type International’ and ‘MomsWin’ - mainly because it drives me nuts to see the SAME ads from different people constantly being submitted. You can see that article here, (opens in a new window) it’s targeted at those two groups of marketers, but it applies to anyone marketing a popular program/biz opp out there.

It bothers me to see the amount of people out there who want to make money online but don’t attempt to become creative about it. I think the majority of them don’t get creative because they are afraid of failing. Unfortunately, following the rest of the team and using those same ads isn’t doing them any service either. It’s a shame.

Updated the Freebies page. I’ve included a new section for PC security and virus protection with really great useful links.

Freebies you can ACTUALLY use… is the new motto for this page!

Yep… all grown up. Wife and mother of three. I take the kids to school, help with homework, do the laundry… all the usual grown up stuff.

My husband is in classes two nights a week. I’m a huge chicken.

I hate being home at night… the only “grown up” in the house. My husband blames it on the Stephen King collection in the bookcase. I’m pretty sure it’s the Anne Rice collection…

I’ve become best friends with my dog. Yep… he’s my little alarm system. Making noise when he hears anything odd, that’s about all he’s good for. My little chawiener. Half chihuahua and half dauchsund (not sure I spelled that right). So, I fed him a bunch of turkey tonight and this has kept him right on my heels all night long. I prefer it that way. There’s nothing worse than being in one end of the house and hearing him barking like mad from the other end.

I don’t like our den at night. We have large sliding glass doors. They look out into our backyard and beyond our fence is a breezeway that the utility company uses. It’s big enough for a truck to drive through and there aren’t any lights out there. Which isn’t so bad, except we have big shrubs lining the fence. Shrubs that aren’t incredibly dense, just dense enough to imagine all sorts of shapes in them. So… at night it feels like being in a fish bowl. So, I avoid doing laundry late at night because the laundry room is right off the den. I’ll fold laundry in the bedroom… but all the swapping from washer to dryer must be done before sun down.

I was listening to Bob and Tom on the radio as I took the kids to school this morning. Drew Hastings (a comedian) was on and he was talking about how he lived in a cabin in the middle of the woods.

“Did you know that a possum walking through the woods in the dark sounds exactly like three guys with an ax walking through the woods at night?”

Yes Drew. I do know that. Can understand that exactly.

I also know that innocent glow-in-the-dark Halloween glass clings can look like a guy in a ski mask leaping at you as you close the sliding glass door. And they weren’t scary glass clings either. We’re talking small, happy pumpkins, spiders, and cute little witches.

I’m a chicken. A chicken who has to wait another 40 minutes for her husband’s key in the lock. After I make him slide his ID under the door.

Ok… I am kidding about the ID thing. Honest.

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