Where Has the Time Gone?

Oh my! Where has the time gone. It's been nearly two months since I posted here. Well lets see, there was all that flurry of activity making 22 beaded ornaments for my grand children and great grand children, and since I was making new designs there was the time it took to make the patterns, then of course as the patterns were made I just had to upload them to BeadPatternsBoutique.com and The BeadCoop.com to share them with others (and make a few dollars in the process). Then the "beadin' bug" got hold of me and I made some earring patterns and uploaded them also. . . so I haven't been doing much writing except for pattern instructions.

Today I got an e mail saying I'd been nominated for Giant Squid on Squidoo. ???How'd that happen? I only have 12 lenses. The deadline for applying for Giant Squid is December 31 and you have to have 50 lenses to qualify. Not gonna happen. Still it's a great honor knowing the lenses I do have are worthy of the recognition. Maybe next year.

My mind is already shifting from bead mode to writing and I have general outlines in my head for a couple of beading related lenses and one health related one. Now to just get them to stop spinning around in my brain so I can focus on one. For right now though, I've got to clear a place and set up my Christmas tree or my grand daughter will be over here accusing me of being depressed. Can't have that. I'm just cold! The extra physical activity should relieve that!

Could I Possibly Make Any More Mistakes on. . .

such simple directions? I got my article, "Planning Your Container Herb Garden"for Scribd written today. I went back and watched the video just to make sure I remembered all the key steps to get it uploaded and published. OOOPS. First mistake. I'd typed my article in Word Perfect which doesn't save as a .doc file, so I had to copy and paste it into Google Docs. Then I linked my keywords to my site, saved it as a Word document and uploaded it. One of the links didn't work! It had a typo in it. I went back and corrected the Google Doc, and saved it as text which of course didn't upload. I think all in all I deleted that document 3 times before I got it into Scribd as a readable document with clickable links. I spent a lot of time doing something that shouldn't have taken but a few minutes because I was so nervous and wanted it done perfect. I don't know why new sites and programs put me in such a tizzy. I got it done anyway. I haven't gotten one written for Ezine Articles yet.

I watched today's video and a light bulb came on. Today's lesson is about making Squidoo lenses which I've been doing for quite a while now. I have an RSS feed module in most of my lenses, but I only had excerpts from my blogs showing. Google likes new content and updated sites, so by putting your RSS feed showing your latest blog entry in your Squidoo lens, you have fresh content every time you write a blog! Talk about automation! What an a haa! moment. Especially since my lenses all relate to one of my blogs or another.

Well I'm not quite so uptight today as I was yesterday. Maybe I'll go watch TV and pet my cat for a while before I go to bed tonight.