This Little Debbie has certainly went through a lot of life’s changes since the last time I made a post on this blog!

I changed & updated the link list on the right side to show you some of the things I’ve been doing online.

It took me quite awhile to figure out how to get back in at wordpress.com, I finally found my record of log in details from 2008. WoW – 5 years ago.

It didn’t seem very ‘funny’ for me to read my past posts of trials and tribulations with the Squidoo platform…….especially since it really hasn’t changed. I started there June of 2007. The only reason I’m still logging into it anymore is because despite HQ’s attempts to ruin the platform in search engine’s eyes, some of my pages still have a portion of success.

I wish I would have followed through with my plans in 2008, and had the domains I owned fully functional…..but I got caught up in the desire to make those squidoo pages successful – and they were, which  took up alot of my time each day.

Not anymore for this Little Debbie – Flowergardener. It’s still hard for me physically and mentally to design a website and it’s contents exactly the way I want them to be – but this Baby Boomer Woman is toiling away at it each day.

My latest time gobbler is putting a daily list of 10 books that I believe every woman over 50 would like to read at Little Debbies World.com

I’m trying also to add more Dog Costumes for Halloween and then other Holiday’s and Events at a free Blogger Blog named Pet Costumes For Dogs.

Next on the agenda is to add more Decorative Dry Erase Boards to another free Blogger Blog. So far, I’ve got Sunsets and Full Moons, but there are ALOT more that I’ve designed at Zazzle. Until I get that blog completed, if you desire, you can see all of my Dogs, Flowers, Eagles, Butterflies, Owls, and Hummingbirds at Zazzle DBC Decorative Dry Erase Whiteboards.

Well, I really thought I was getting better at this blogging stuff, but at the moment I’m stumped. This blog was my first attempt. I thought I’d do better hosting my own .com on the wordpress platform, so I got littledebbiesworld.com, and started another blog. It’s currently at PR2, and this blog is at PR3. What the hell??????

As you can see, I haven’t posted here since May, and it’s a PR3?

Well, I suppose I’m going to have to put this blog on my list of one’s to keep track of……….I just can’t delete a PR3 site!

I updated my technorati account today, and the clue of this blogs identity showed up, the thumbnail of my other blog when it was confirmed by Technorati, was the wordpress default blue header, not the pretty purple header, which made me think of this blog.

I must be going crazy………or crazier…..

I’m starting to become disenchanted with the Squidoo platform, that I have 93 one page websites on, and 7 group websites. Organization used to be one of my strong abilities…….not anymore, since experiencing a nervous breakdown, clinical depression, and menopause.

I’ve been busy trying to organize a type of move…..of my original articles (and income producing products) from squidoo to my own .coms. I realize I’ve got to start at the beginning if I want to have them popular, so I’m hosting them, with the wordpress platform (ha-ha, since I thought I was getting good at it!). Anyway, I’ve been doing a lot of reading, and now know that I’ve set up my active blogs wrong (this one, and the one with the same name, but .com). I’ve got the categories all messed up mainly, besides other less important mistakes.

Duh…….nothing like dropping my ass in there with a sink or swim option. I’ve got the start of 4 other domains with 9 subdomains, and 15 other subdomains to create. I’d better get this wordpress platform conquered before I get too deep, or I’ll just get frustrated and drop it all.

I have just transferred this free wordpress blog to my own domain, while still using the wordpress blog platform!

The new url is http://www.littledebbiesworld.com

Come and visit me 🙂

Hey all!

Very soon this blog will be hosted by my own .com! I’m trying to get all the stuff behind the scenes set up on this blog and my natural medicine blog; which is at times a bit difficult, as I don’t know that much about scripting languages, transferring, blog languages, domains, etc.

I really don’t want to go ‘hog wild’ as yet with any of my blogs, because it will just mean more work for me at a later date….if they’re not set up right.

Earlier this week I did some cleaning of my Squidoo dashboard. To date, I’ve given away 14 lenses and a group, and sold 7 lenses. I’ve deleted about 20. Now I’m at a total number of 69 lenses and 5 groups. Making my work at home efforts much more manageable! I’m kind of anxious to see what a fellow lensmaster will do with the Vitamins lenses, and another lensmaster with the Herb Garden Group. Now my total number of lenses (69) and their lens rankings average out between 5,000 LR and 6,500 LR. Pretty damned good, I think!

I haven’t checked the total today, but one of my lenses has been picked up by Colleges. The stats claim students all over the world are viewing my Dog Worms website/lens! I have no idea how it became a reference for Colleges, but am very proud that I created something of worth that others can use for information!!!! Kind of ironic, I think………Me-making something of use for teaching College Students-when my whole college experience totals up to 3 months!

The Colleges have also found my Dog Allergy website/lens, and it’s numbers of visitors has doubled! The number of visitors to the Dog Worm site was 1,079 last night, a number that counts the visitors from the last 7 days, although the Colleges found it 5 days ago. I expect the number of visitors will decline, as it is Saturday; but I’m hopin’ it will pick up again on Monday!

My world at home has so many things that needs to be taken care of that I get frustrated, resulting in me spinning round and round, with nothing getting completed. I have a family room that is nearly ‘gutted’, waiting on $$ for 2 sliding glass doors, roofing, and alot of carpenter work. The plan is to make it into my indoor greenhouse. I already have the windows that will be inserted on much of the roof. I have an extra bedroom that is next to the family room that I also want to incorporate into the ‘green room’ (indoor greenhouse). My other extra bedroom needs a makeover, as does the living room, dining room, and kitchen. My garage is filled nearly to the roof with furniture and stuff that is junk now, from the basement flooding. Gotta get it out of there, I contacted the garbage hauler, but their ‘farm truck’ is badly in need of repair, so they can’t haul it away for me. My truck has a lead-spring broken and all wheel ball-joints need replaced, so I can’t take smaller trips to the dump, or do much of anything with my truck, until my son gets the time to repair it. He’s already purchased the parts……..now it’s getting him to DO it. He’s the one that tore it up anyway, using it all winter to haul firewood.

Been waiting as patient as possible for my stimulus check. I need new fencing, among many other things. If you’ve taken the time to view My Flower Garden Squidoo lens, you’ll see a diagram and photos of my back yard. I’ve got a big dog, a medium sized dog, and a little dog. Their place in the backyard is fenced with what is called ‘field fence’. It has big squares, and can be manipulated if pushed on. One dog jumps it, and one dog goes thru the squares. Over the years, I’ve tried putting an electric wire all the way around the top, and chicken wire at the bottom. I’m tired of that. I want/need 200ft. of 5′ welded wire fence. All winter to the current date I’ve had to go outside with the dogs every time they needed to go outside. What a pain in the ass. If that check doesn’t come soon, I WILL scrape the funds from my work at home efforts, as I can’t handle it much longer.

Ok, that’s enough from me today……..I’m going outside. That damned dog pen that is not in use needs it’s first mowing of the season. Some of the grass is as tall as my knees already. After that, if I have any energy left, and have taken some of my pain pills, I need to start cleaning last years growth out of the flowerbeds.

Gods Love and mine,

Debbie

I’ve been put in a frame of mind I cannot describe or get out of since reading Seth Godin’s Squidoo blog post. It hinted at a few things that I had suspicions of, as to the focus and agenda of Squidoo.

When I get in this type of mode, I search and search, reading articles, news, everything I can get my eyeballs on; until the subject has either been put to rest in my mind, or it spurs me onto creating a lens on the topic.

I’m afraid that our economy is going to get much worse. Some of us have already commented on the decline of commissions thru our Squidoo lenses. I think that if more would offer their stats, we may find that there is no one topic that is feeling the economic crunch. People are starting to think a bit before purchasing needless or frivolous items. They’re cutting back their purchases, saving that money for the rising costs of food, mortgage, and gas.

I have a lens that touches the subject, The Quality of Life; maybe that is why I’m spinning round and round, looking, and researching, because I know that the lens really doesn’t address the many times urgent needs of those that are being uprooted from our economy.

The lens itself is ok, I guess, but I want to reach people on a deeper level. I really want to be able to point a visitor to something that is more tangible than offering books that they could purchase. I’ve always heard the saying ‘you’ve got to spend money to make money’; but where’s the saying for people that need money and have none? I just don’t think it’s right of me to be trying to hawk books to people that really shouldn’t be spending their money.

I am so fortunate to have found Squidoo, as I have been able to earn a few hundred bucks a month, but before that time, I did not have an extra $20 dollar bill at the end of the month, so I know exactly how hard it is to live that way, and I don’t want to become one of those types of people that make internet ‘come-ons’, like ‘just spend _$_ amount of money, and this __ will take care of all your problems. That was always an insult to my intelligence, so I certainly don’t want to turn around and become like that.

I have another lens on the backburner of my Squidoo dashboard, and I suppose that’s another reason I’m in this mood. I’ve got to put about 7 days of work into it before I release the url to everyone. I realize that no matter how bad the economy gets, there will still be certain levels of society that will not be touched. Being on the low income end of society anyway, I’m used to being frugal, but many of us will be destroyed financially.

The new lens will be for those that haven’t had to drastically change their lifestyle because of the economy; and speaking purely with an ‘on-line’ view of life, those that are continously hunting for more income. I feel like I’m being sacreligious or something with this lens, but I guess I just have to remember that not everyone will be as deeply affected with our dropping economy as I will be.

Must be my time to take a serious look at my motivations and my morals; and how I want them to be portrayed online. I like to think of it as being pro-active and not hiding my head in the sand, oblivious to the world around me. I’m afraid the world may come to cutting out many of the products all of us push online, simply because ‘living’ expenses have to take priority, and I certainly don’t want to be spending my time promoting, pushing, what-ever you want to call it – products that seem utterly out of reach and ridiculous to most of society.

I am very proud of the natural medicine products that I’ve made websites on, and will continue to feature them. No matter how bad our economy gets, I will always believe that we can attain better health without ‘big pharma’s’ strong arm tactics with synthetic drugs’ harmful and dangerous side effects.

Gods Love and mine,

Debbie