Bartering Rocks

Welcome back!

Bartering rocks people.  I am totally crazy about it, have done it many times in the past and over the past several weeks have accomplished quite a few of my goals for my businesses as a result of a good barter with some other very capable, awesome WAHMs.  Thank the Lord for them!

So far, I have gotten my header redone over at Beauty by Design Ministries, as well as gotten my podcast site and my ministry site converted into one Wordpress site, then I got some awesome new graphics for my ebooks there as well.

Finally, this week I have gotten a whole new look for A Writer for Hire. It is looking fresh and unique which I am pumped about, as I have a new slogan, “Delivering Fresh Content to You”, and a new approach for that business to totally get me going in 2009.  So, if you need help with your blog or website content or articles written to help market your business or to put in your newsletter, I”m your gal. But, mostly my specialty for 09′ is going to be blog content management.  My goal is to have 5 blog content managements.  So, if you want in on that you should go here, read up on what I can do for you and then contact me before I fill those 5 spots.

So, what have you bartered for lately? Was it worth it?  Would you do it again? Do tell!

Another Weekend Recap

Wow, It’s time to do this again?? I completely forgot until someone linked here saying they got the idea of a “weekend” recap from me.  EEKKK!!

Anyway, this week honestly has been quite the “blur”.  I started out the week in hopes of having baby #3 quickly. However, as I sit here with him still “baking” as some say, you can tell that didn’t happen.  Hopefully tomorrow is the ever fateful day.  I am going to the doctor at 10 am on Monday, pray he puts me in for induction.

So, recapping this week. Monday was the doctor’s appointment. I had dilated but since then nothing.  Tuesday and Wednesday my mom and grandmother came over to help out with the kids and house. Praise God that was a blessing.  Thursday I had to go it alone, and Friday Greg ended up off because his state car went capoot.  We went out to lunch and out for supper, yay no cooking and had a good time spending time together.

I made mammoth to do lists this week in an effort to “stay busy”, which I pretty much did working online on my websites and installing two Wordpress blogs and doing customizations for two clients.  This is sort of one of those “hobbies” I get paid to do.  I know it’s not something I really have “time” for, but it’s relaxing and fun to me, I know I’m wierd, a nerd, go read yesterday’s post you’ll understand why I say that.  But seriously, I learned Wordpress over time and I have come to love tweaking and playing with it.  Fortunately for me there are people out there who hate doing this sort of thing but want a website or blog set up so they pay me.  Win-win!

So, between all that and doing ministry related stuff, I booked a speaking engagement this week and worked out the details on that, I’ll be in Senatobia, MS speaking to Moms and daughters at First United Methodist Church on Saturday, August 23.  Excited! I have stayed busy this week, ever so impatiently waiting for baby Brady to make his arrival.  I am beyond ready and hope upon hope tomorrow is the BIG day!

In True Nerd Style

I’m a nerd, I’ll admit it.  I like planners, and love to figure out a good problem. It’s called “trouble-shooting” in nerd language.   I like computers, and software, programs and techy stuff.  I come from a total nerd dad, and a art teacher mom so I’m a pretty strange mix when it comes to likes/disklikes.

But, yesterday I was all nerd.  I had a new client request a Wordpress blog install, customization, and a bunch of techy stuff. She also wanted to learn how to do several of the bloggy things we take for granted, so I offered to help.  She asked to be led through on the phone or for me to take screenshots.  I knew you could do the screenshots just wasn’t sure if I needed a nifty new program or it was something my computer could automatically do.  I soon learned with a few tweets that I was good to go.

I explained to her I’d rather do the screen shots, after all talking on the phone around my house consists of a lot of interuptions with a 16 month old and 4 year old in the background.  It is never a pleasant thing.  So, screenshots  were the way to go.

Next I begin running into issues, apparently my computer has a virus, well let’s say it HAD a virus, because in true nerd style I fixed that darn thing.  But, it still ran completely slow, I mean tortoise slow. I get so frustrated with it at one point yesterday I just want to chunk it out the window.

But, I persist and finally though I am working half the night the client’s install is complete and screenshots are made.  I had a blast though.  So, I figure, I’m a nerd because I love this stuff.  I even stayed up a couple more hours tweaking one of my own websites, just for the heck of it.

By the way, if you haven’t heard…..here’s some news about me, one of the many reasons I love the internet.