Last day of the pay period here, so I’ve been keeping busy. Brent’s off with Ariel completing the application for the apartment we think we want, so I get some extra time to transcribe.

How I look forward to taking some time to do website work this weekend! If I can just do better this pay period at keeping up with my work during the week, I’ll be able to do a lot more website work and maybe have my work start paying off. Sure would be nice. Right now, while Google is spidering my site, it only has the home page and several pages I have since removed listed, arrgh! Teach me to let Google on before I’m certain of what I’m doing with a site. Not that Yahoo has done any better by me, and they’ve eaten a lot more bandwidth. I still have plenty of bandwidth, so it’s not a real concern, but I certainly would like to see it be put to better use!

It’s just not my day.

I went grocery shopping, came home and one of the bags broke, dropping a can on my big toe. Naturally the rim hit, so I have a lovely bruise. Shortly thereafter, I dropped a baby gate on the same foot. At least it wasn’t on my toe, but that left me with a nice scrape.

At least it all happened to my left foot, so I can still use my transcription foot pedal as I normally would with my right. It’s time to get to work.

I hope Ariel naps or at least relaxes today. I was making her bed after washing her sheets, when she did something and caused a part of the bed rail to pop loose. I can’t get it back in, so I took the whole rail off and Brent’s going to have to fix it later. I’m trusting her to not fall out if she does take a nap, but she’s still playing now after 20 minutes of being in her room, so I doubt a nap is happening.

Well, it’s quiet, transcribe as much as I can day again, so you know what that means…

I haven’t done as much as I should have already. I’ve just gotten started, after spending too much time on discussion boards, planning for tomorrow’s newsletter and so forth. I finally told myself to stop it and get moving. So of course, here I am. Bad, I know.

I’m finally getting better again about transcribing, though. Not enough better yet, but as my energy level increases with this little rascal, I’m getting things accomplished again. Still way behind, but not as behind as I’ve been. I’ll take what I can get and try to improve upon it.

I’m still working on submitting my site to directories.

Now, keep in mind, many of these will probably do me no good at all. I submitted to the major ones first, of course, and with these minor ones I can just hope the links do some good someday. It should be interesting to see what happens when the links do update for my sites.

I’m still deleting far more sites off the list than I am submitting to. Lots of directories that just don’t relate to most home businesses, overly specialized or I just don’t like the look of. Maybe I’m picky, but I do prefer to see something of a professional look to these things.

I’ve submitted to some 40+ directories since I began, with hundreds more to review and submit to. I’d like to at least end up with 200 or so links from all this and a nice solid resource to offer my visitors to my home business website.

Wow! Thank goodness for antivirus software.

I’m being good today again and submitting my sites to more directories while cleaning out that list. Just killed a real bad one, one that makes me wonder about the quality of the list if this kind of thing is on it.

Went to one of the links. OK, not a directory, but it had a links page, so I clicked to go to it.

Out pop bunches of porn ads, and my antivirus informs me it has stopped a trojan from getting into the system. Phew!

Now I’m running AdAware, to be followed immediately by Spybot.

Just can’t trust anyone these days, but this should be a good list by the time I’m done with it. If it doesn’t kill my computer first!