In case you haven’t noticed, comments and posts from Veronica went rogue the past couple of days.
Hmm, why am I using third person?
Anyway… I wish there was an interesting story to why I haven’t written anything but the truth is fairly simple – I took a break.
And it was GREAT!
In the spirit of Christmas (and eggnog) I took the liberty of giving myself a break. We always talk about how blogging can be very time consuming and not very financially rewarding, but never do anything about it. So… I took the time to work on some ideas I’ve been eagerly discussing here earlier. Well, there may have been some other activities going on, such as watching the entire “Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” series (original version) and a lot of sitting around on my butt.
Based on the lack of emails I typically receive about new posts, it seems many of you took a break today as well. Did we all have the same idea at the same time?
I did have a chance to read some blogs this week, many of which were fantastic! As always, it gives me great pleasure to highlight some of your masterpieces every week.
Your Awesome Posts this Week
- 2012 in Review | NZ Muse
- Apple Peak or Plateau? What do you think? | Thad Thoughts
- How We Paid Off $30,000 in Credit Card Debt | Eyes on the Dollar
- Has Christmas Become Too Commercial? | Monster Piggy Bank
- 50 Side Business Ideas You Can Start Today | Frugal Habits
- Club Thrifty: Turning Our Dreams into Reality | Club Thrifty
- Student Loan Forgiveness Programs – Yay or Nay? | Untemplater
- Fact of Life and Business – You Get What You Pay For | DollarVersity
- How I helped my Handyman Get into Debt | Reach Financial Independence
- A Frugal Person’s View on Holiday Tipping | Frugal Rules
- Are Your Finances an Amazing Race? | MoneyMasterMom
- Save For Retirement or Pay Off Debt? | Debt Roundup
- Never Ask About a Foreclosed Home | Blue Collar Workman
Alright now. You have got to STOP WRITING AWESOME STUFF, because this is way too much linking going on here. But I can’t help it! Seriously, can you maybe take more breaks? Draining Blue Pelican website page rank, ugh. Hehe, pshhh who cares…!
Carnivals
I entered a bunch of carnivals this week. Most of them I can’t find now because they didn’t say who’s hosting, and others didn’t include my post. This is happening fairly often now and I’m not quite sure why? Maybe it’s the payday loan home page that spooks everyone. *sigh*
If I’m in your carnival and haven’t linked back to you, please let me know! I apologize for not making sure to know exactly which carnival I’m entering 
Thanks for making this week an interesting one and not complaining about having to leave a comment here the last couple of days.
“Find this image” stuff is now too easy thanks to Google’s mystical powers of awesomeness. When I submit the image to Google Image search it seems to believe it originates from oblog.designobserver.com. Do I get a Cookie?
As for a good movie, try “The Prestige”: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0482571/
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I was looking for another answer, but that’s not the url I pulled it from
Nice try. You won’t find many of the images I use here because I apply a photoshop filter to them.
The Prestige – good movie, I saw that a while ago
Sad, he couldn’t figure out he had a twin. Psssssh.
Well if you’ve already seen The Prestige there’s another good magic style movie called The Illusionist you can try.
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Sometimes a break is needed. I took a break from commenting for a few days a month or so ago and it was a great decision! I have not seen any good movies lately…I don’t see that many of them : / I do want to see the new Hobbit movie.
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Hahah, Hobbit – I’m excited for it as well. I played LOTRO for a while then got bored. Someone wouldn’t stop pk’ing me! He was way higher level… bastard.
A break is needed every so often…welcome back…i had that happen the first few times i was in a carnival….come to think of it I should get back into the submission of those…i havent hosted or submitted in a while.
Have a great weekend…
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Thanks Christopher. I’ve been debating between how much time I should spend blogging and working on things that actually earn me money. Blogging = doesn’t earn me much.
Yes, a break is definitely needed from time to time! Glad you were able to take one. My wife and I were talking about that exact subject last week and will be doing the same thing the week after Christmas. We’ve been so slammed lately that I am REALLY looking forward to it! We don’t see movies very often either, that said I am being forced to go see the Hobbit tomorrow. My wife is pretty excited to see it, so it’ll be nice to get out.
Oh, on the Carnivals…I tried emailing the Blog Carnival HQ site yesterday asking them to include host links in the email receipt and there Contact us page seems to be broken.
There’s only one or two I submit to from there, but I would recommend doing all the others through the other two sites as it makes the user experience so much easier in general. It’s been frustrating to me as well, but if they don’t care about us linking back then oh well I guess. Have a great weekend Veronica!
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Thanks John. What’s the matter, you don’t like Tolkien movies? I admit, they are very long! You have to be into that sort of thing to sit through them without falling asleep. Lucky for me I’ve been playing roleplaying games for as long as I can remember – viva la Ultima Online!
Congrats on taking the break. Those are always needed, especially when working online. Let me know when you have those questions ready about an online store. Thank you for the mention. I appreciate it!
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Thanks Grayson. I’m going to try to send them today or tomorrow. I’ve just been sidetracked by working on another project in development. (Well, it’s actually a redesign of the home page on WordPress because the current page I put up from scratch and it’s a pain in the butt to add pages or fix it to work great on mobile devices.)
I could see how some would prefer not to link up to a payday loan site…I was fairly skeptical when I first saw you lurking around WSL. lol.
Anyhow, blogging can be a total burnout but it can also be a lot of fun. It’s definitely good to take some time to refresh the batteries from time-to-time.
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*Lurks on over to your website* Hehe. I can’t help it – it pays well!
We ALL need a break now and then, sometimes a short one (a day or weekend) and sometimes a BIG break, just to stay fresh. Enjoy ‘em.
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Indeed Rod! Say, have you had luck selling your ebook? I was going to mention ClickBank as a place to maybe list it to get others to promote it for you for commission.
Thanks for including my post this week Veronica
I’ll be sure to write something boring next week so you don’t have to link to me :p
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Thank You! Geeez, it’s so hard to convince people to write boring stuff! Hehe. Have e great weekend Glen!
It’s important to take breaks, but so hard to step away…I get that! Enjoy your weekend!
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Thanks! I’m taking the time to work on my home page (affiliate page).
I was not on a break, I was pestering against my internet provider
I hope you enjoyed yours. Carnivals are usually up to the host but it would definitely help to know who is hosting next. Sometimes I submit to one that is five days later, and end up showing in the next one 12 days after. Go figure. Have a great weekend, thanks for the mention!
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Ah, okay, I’ll keep an eye out for incoming links in the near future. What’s going on with your internet provider?
Enjoy the time at the lake! (I assume you’ll be hanging out there to avoid all the noise.)
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Thanks so much for the mention!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I hope you are having a great weekend!
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My pleasure Holly! I’m having a good time catching up watching Dexter!
Thanks for the mention. I’m glad you got to take a break. I haven’t been able to do as much reading and commenting the last couple of weeks and it probably won’t get any better until the first of the year. I think most people are in the same boat, so hopefully we won’t drop off the ranks!
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Eh, your blog is great, it won’t drop any rankings
Thanks for including me, much appreciated! Hey, it’s cool you took a little break, we all do it. We’re human, after all.
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