Getting On My Own Nerves

1. I am finding my web site stats totally interesting lately. Things that were just a moment in time are out there, and searchable, forever. Well, unless I delete them from my blog. Speaking of, I am totally irked again with GOOGLE and that the images that I upload to my blog are put out there publicly on Google Images. No where does it say this or has asked me permission to do so. There is one photo that I have now deleted off my blog because people were coming to it by searching for something, in which I am unaware of the exact search terms, but it led me to believe that there are some people that are a little bit off out there. Not good people. Possibly very sick people. I am considering taking my blog elsewhere. Don’t get me wrong, I know that because there are photos on my blog, that they are already public, but it gives me a sick feeling in my stomach knowing that people are actually searching for things they shouldn’t be searching for, and finding them in a place where I didn’t agree to put them. Before those guys from Blogger sold themselves out to Google, I never had an issue. Enough of that. When people search “chinesse calendar” and “kidney stone”, my blog will pop up in the search results every time. And, no, I haven’t made a typo as they are spelling Chinese like this: chinesse.

2. In just this last week, I have realized how far I have come in my career. I never thought I would be advising people on strategy and saying things to others that I have heard so often myself like “too many cooks in the kitchen”. I’ve said it now. I hope that doesn’t make me one of “those” people. I’ve also realized there are portions of my job that I never want to do again, but I’ll do them in this position because they are only section of what I’m doing.

3. I feel like there is a newborn in my house, even though everyone is over the age of two. In the last two nights, each kid has been up in the middle of the night with major crankiness and not wanting to go back to sleep. Eight hours of sleep for two nights? No problem. You’d think I would be more tired, but I guess I’m just used to this even though, gawd, I wish it weren’t happening.

4. Will I always have mommy brain? I am beginning to feel like there is a hole in my brain. I forget so much. I don’t know how I manage to keep it together most of the time. As an example, I think to myself that I need to do a search on xyz. I immediately go to a search engine. And then I immediately forget what I was going to search. Yes, it is that bad. And I need to check my hair straightener about five times before I leave the house to make sure it is unplugged. Then, when I am driving down the street I STILL CAN’T remember. Sheesh. Does Ginkoba really work? I think I might try it.

5. Book update? Query has been started. Yeah, me!

6. Don’t get me started on the housing market meltdown. I wish that the government would give those of us who bought at the height of it all (US!US!US!) some kind of break. For example, let’s say that you made all of your mortgage payments on time for the last three years (US!US!US!), that you could, um, let’s say upgrade to a larger home while keeping your same percentage rate. A girl can dream, can’t she (about double sinks, a fireplace, granite counters, a master bedroom…)?