So am I talking to you kids about my mood swings now?
I guess I am... but I think that's okay... I mean, I practically know all 139 of you like family... that's roughly how many "unique readers" I have on Nucleus of my Noggin now, according to the analytics and stats and whatnot.
I think we established a long time ago that I'm not necessarily shy about the discussion of personal things... now, ask me out on a second date and I'll clam up like there's a mafia hit against me should I make a peep, but personal questions I can handle all day long...
I'm definitely seeing improvement in my moods... I've been seeing a fabulously intelligent doctor by the name of Dr. Call in Brookport, IL. She's a chiropractor who specializes in Nutritional Response Testing. I'm cutting back on sugars as much as I can. I tried Truvia and some of the others, but they're not doing it for me... terrible aftertaste! It'll be easier for me to stick with real sugar and just cut back on it. She's added some supplements to my schedule and that seems to have helped...
I guess the reason I started chattering about that is that it pisses me off that "depression" is something to be "whispered" about. For years I've called it "a funk", "the gloomy gusses", "the blues".... but for the love of Peter, Paul and Mary... let's just call a spade a spade - it boils down to depression.
In general I'm a quantumliciously happy person ... and for years during the time that my marriage was running off in a ditch I learned to put on an Academy Award winning performance of delight and cheer... so I guess now sometimes I don't even realize I'm depressed. In fact, in the weeks following my first visit to Dr. Call, I can truly say that I've realized I was far more depressed than I ever realized... It's been an amazing journey so far and I'm going to keep you folks posted on it because (A.) I'm not shy and (B.) it's good for blog traffic... :)
NOW, about that blog traffic... I first started blogging sometime around 2006 or 2007 and if I remember correctly, my first blogs were on MySpace. I occasionally wrote silliness and a time or two I actually did a serious piece.
One of those pieces centered around the insanity of current cannabis laws in this country and went in depth regarding the astronomical amounts of money spent annually by the U.S. Government to continue the prohibition of cannabis as opposed to the astronomical amounts of revenue the U.S. Government could be profiting annually if they were to regulate and tax it.
It was that week that I made it into the top of the "MySpace" blogs. I reached #1 in News and Politics and stayed there for about 36 hours. If I recall, the MySpace blogs didn't let one embed an analytics tracker - but I do remember that I received well over 400 comments on that blog, which totally addicted me to sharing my thoughts...
This is a link to the blog, although it was written in 2009; therefore many of the graphics and such are no longer active...
So now, three or so years later I still love to write and I've learned that money can be made off of it...
No worries, it's not like Amway and whatnot...
I have several things in place, one of which pays me for views on the ads of their's that are placed on my page. So by going to my page and reading the blog, you're counted as a "view" and after so many "views" I get a few cents. That doesn't sound like much, but it CAN equate to a good little chunk. I've had several postings that have had enough traffic that I made 80 or so cents off of them the first day they were posted.
Now as I've continued to study this and help my mom implement it on her blog I see that the idea of making money really is a very reachable goal. She's aces about posting nearly every day of the world and that of course helps her readership to grow at a very consistent rate and it's starting to show on her analytics and monetizing counters.
I have been lacking the consistency in writing daily to grow my monetizing, but I'm really working on that among a million other things. Some of you may have caught the "superbowl day outhouse video" I uploaded recently and released in a blog. That's another thing I'm working on, "vlogging".
I feel I'd come across much better in a vlog ... and by "better", I mean funnier and easier to understand; not necessarily "more attractive" because I have to admit when I'm on my "entertainment switch" is on full tilt, I make some absolutely outlandish faces.
Exhibit A
Marking that as "public" was one of the most difficult things I've done in some time...
I truly hope you enjoyed it...
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