I finally have things running more or less smoothly here. It took some work, and the bookstore will have to be completely reindexed, but it was worth it!

It seems like time has just been flying by lately. Ariel starts preschool this week and Gage needs to get started on solids. Some days it seems like I turn around and my husband is coming home from work.

I’m trying to get better about planning my days. Sure, it’s fun reading on discussion boards, and I often learn something, but how much more time would I have for site development if I spent less time on discussion boards? I try to regularly look at which ones are merely a waste of time and find times to read on them when I can’t effectively do other work, such as when I’m nursing Gage, although he’s starting to insist on more eye contact during feedings right now, so even then isn’t the best of times.

Given my tendency to always want to add more sites or more features to existing sites, it’s hard to get everything done in a day that I would like. Now that I have things running well enough here, I’m shifting my focus back to my jewelry site to finish getting it ready for Christmas. It’s mostly there, but I’m refining the pages I made for it so they are more focused. Hopefully that site will do well for me this year. Then there’s the temptation to work on more strictly sales sites, and see how many I can get indexed before the Christmas rush. Then there’s the new work at home scam section I’m working on for this site.

As I said, I need to plan my time better. Some of it is prioritizing, some of it is just getting things done more efficiently.