Another day to work hard, so here I am. Just seems like a contradiction, but it isn’t really. I’m about to get back to work transcribing, after all. There’s plenty of work to be done, but I found it a bit depressing to start off my transcribing day with four or five cancer cases in a row. Happens that way sometimes, though.

I pretty much have the new website ready to go. Just have to drop in the AdSense ads on it, and it will be ready to promote. Its promotion will be competing for my time with my website design client, whose site I will be working on this weekend on Sunday, same day as I have planned for the serious launch of my new site. Customer comes first, though.

I have done some promotion of it, however. I used http://selfpromotion.com/ to submit to a bunch of search engines and directories. With any luck I’ll get some free traffic soon. It is already working a little; I got some results from someone who found it in Yahoo! I’m only doing free listing for now, saving my money for my AdWords promotion of the website. I think that is far more effective. I’ll talk a lot about my AdWords promotion of the site here if it gets interesting.

Well, it’s another one of my hard working days, that is, Ariel’s grandparents have her today. And there’s plenty of transcription to go around, so I really shouldn’t be messing around here, but I wanted to update how my new website is going.

In terms of getting affiliate programs - GREAT at last. I found a site where I could sign up for a bunch of relevant affiliate programs, so I’m taking advantage and signing up for a bunch of programs. I’ve been approved for a good number already, which means I am very close to a full launch. However, as I am way, way behind on transcription (my own fault), I probably won’t get to launch until next week, as the new pay period starts then. It is so much easier to steal time at the start of a pay period than the end. Maybe it’s poor planning on my part, but if I do everything right, I won’t have to plan my weeks around medical transcription. I can just deal with affiliate programs to my heart’s content. Might just be a pipe dream, but there it is.

I guess it’s just the difference between men and women.

My husband went out in the morning on Mother’s Day to get flowers for his mom, mine and my grandmother, as we were going to be meeting them at a big family Mother’s Day picnic. I figured he’d just run to the grocery store (no flower shops nearby) and get them, maybe a 20 minute errand at worst.

It took him an hour and a half.

When he came back, he told me he’d had to go to two HOME DEPOTs to find the flowers.

I asked him why he didn’t just go to the grocery store for them. His response was “They have flowers at the grocery store?”

Needless to say, it made a great story at the picnic.

It’s been quite a busy day. Did more transcription today than I’ve done all week, almost combined (very poor week, I’ve been bad about it), which is why I’m up so late. Took Ariel in for her 2 year Well Child visit. She flat out panicked when the doctor (not a nurse or assistant!) called her name in the waiting room. It took more than 10 minutes to calm her to where I could hear the doctor clearly. We finally got her to notice her favorite decorations in the examination room, and that helped tremendously. Really a pretty easy visit, all in all. Quick exam, one vaccination. The doctor surprised me and did not try to prescribe fluoride drops for her. He’s been telling me for her last several visits he would on this visit, but he said she’s getting enough from the tap water. That is not what he told me before. He also told me that in the next few years they will probably be offering vaccines for SARS and West Nile virus. I really don’t know if I would take those or not. Current vaccines have a fair history behind, them, and I don’t like to trust any medical procedure without a fair background. On the othe hand, SARS is pretty dangerous in some groups. On that one, though, I really wonder if it’s that bad when proper care is available. Be something to research when the time comes.

I decided to go ahead and sign up for GMail, Google’s new email service. I am just sick of all the popups on my Lycos account, which has for years been my free email account. I got the chance because of this blog, just in case you are wondering. I love the lack of popups and no ad tacked onto the bottom of my emails. I won’t be using it for business, of course, but for other things it sounds about ideal. I’ll let you know what I think of it as I start getting email in that account.

Well, even though I haven’t announced the URL anywhere, Googlebot found my website. It’s not listed or anything yet, so you can’t look it up. I’ve been approved for some of the affiliate programs I wanted, though not all, and I am still waiting on a few others before I go ahead and launch. It’s almost ready, though. I really do hope that I get my minimum number of affiliate programs soon. Yes, this site NEEDS a certain number of affiliate programs before I will be willing to announce it. Just the nature of the beast. It’s close, very close, but a few vital sections are still lacking.