So in some rather sudden & unfortunate news, it turns out that we will NOT be renewing our lease at the current apartment (our lease is about to end, like, a week from now). Why? Because a few days ago, I woke up and went downstairs and smelled this strange, plastic-y/burning odor. After some searching, we found the source - one of the electrical outlets was having some kind of crazy fuckup and the socket had MELTED. So yeah, that’s extremely worrisome and so we have to get out of here ASAP so we don’t die in an electrical fire. Obviously we’ve stopped using that outlet (well, duh) but it’s still pretty scary. So I’ve been spending the past few days looking at apartments all over the city. I don’t even really care where I live right now, it’s more about finding enough space, somewhere dog-friendly (ie, not on a busy road in case my dumbass Boxer decides to shoot out the door), and somewhere cheap enough that we can really begin saving money for the South Korea thing. But yeah, how inconvenient and last-minute could this possibly get? SO stressing out right now.
It doesn’t help that I’m still totally in mourning over my beloved eye-candy Dale getting booted off of Top Chef last week - especially now that head judge Tom Colicchio made it rather clear in his blog that if he hadn’t taken that week off and let Anthony Bourdain take his spot as head judge, Dale would still be there. I love me some No Reservations, but right now, Mr. Bourdain is totally on my shitlist.
Thank God for the No Booty Calls video finally appearing to help take my mind off the bullshit. Decks.
For the past week or so, the boyfriend has started looking into teaching English in South Korea. We have a few friends who do that currently, but both of them were given an apartment/dorm by the school/program/whatever they went over with. If my boyfriend decides to do this, not only will I be accompanying him (I’ve always kind of felt like I wanted to live abroad someday, why not Asia?) as well as our animals. Has anyone ever been/moved to/lived in Korea before? I know it’s supposed to be relatively affordable from what my friends say, but I’m interested in how hard it is to find an apartment that allows dogs, what kind of culture shock should we expect, and so on and so forth. Any advice would be welcomed with open arms!
In other news, if AIM prompts you to upgrade? DON’T. I did and now I can’t even fucking USE the stupid program - the first time anyone IMs me, AIM freezes and I have to CTRL+ALT+DELETE and shut it down. So if any of y’all have been wondering where I’ve been… well, let’s just say IRC is just about all I’ve got right now. Blech.
Has anyone ever promoted/dealt with Neon Dollars before? I signed up because they’re currently offering a $150 bonus to new webmasters, and managed to snag a sale in my first day having their links up… but it seems that they don’t actually have the biggest base of cam models. I think that Neon Cams is new, though, but I might be mistaken? Oh well, we’ll see… cross your fingers that they do well, though, since their 30% commission is LIFETIME, unlike AWE, which is only a 14-day cookie. So yeah.
Uh… hi? Hello. Long time no see, I know. Yeah, anyhow. First things first, while I will always & forever love Anya, I’m actually pretty happy with Whitney’s win of this cycle of America’s Next Top Model. Conspiracy theories and whatnot aside, she’s gorgeous, a damn good model, and she’ll make a great Cover Girl. Congratulations, Whitney!
I finally ended my reign of terror as the #1 do-nothing slacker of the internet last week. Refilling my Adderall prescription is a good idea, you know? It’s nice to once again be able to think, like, COHERENTLY. As much as I really do hate it (I’ve always been one who prefers being in complete control of my own mind - thus why I’ve never even really been tempted to try drugs - and why I was so reluctant to try Adderall in the first place… also, it costs so fucking much - $100 a month for GENERICS), I can’t deny how it tends to bring all my scattered-ass thoughts back together. But still, the idea that I’m somewhat reliant on these pills to make my brain work properly kind of bugs me. Then again, without them I tend to forget words and/or what I was talking about or what just happened. So, yeah.
Anyhow, Creepypasta is still rocking it out, averaging about 300 hits each day. I’m loving how many people are leaving comments, too. It may not be a huge moneymaker (although Google AdSense and WidgetBucks ARE bringing in some revenue), but it’s still a lot of fun.
I decided to expand into a (completely) new (to me) niche as well: witness Tales Of Hentai. I’ve never really been into anime & such, although I do remember having to watch Spirited Away for my East Asian Humanities class in college and liking it… but anyhow, I noticed that even the text links I’d thrown up as an afterthought on Super Hero Fetish tended to convert well, so why not try out an entire site dedicated to the hentai/comic genre? So far it’s looking good - it’s only a few days old (don’t be fooled by my backdated entries, ha) and has already brought in three sales. Let’s hope that those conversions are a sign of success to come, right?
Lastly, is anyone else out there watching Top Chef? I need someone to talk about Richard’s awesomeness and Dale’s hotness with, thanks.
Thank you, Rich, for your support during these troubled times =(
Does anyone out there know of any hidden gems when it comes to archives of free WordPress themes? I’m trying to launch a new website or two, but I’m so damned picky about layouts… and I just canNOT find anything that I like enough at the normal standbys (WPThemesFree, etc). Help, y’all. I’ve seriously been looking through themes for like two weeks now and I just hate them all! Ugh. I’m getting totally cranky.
How has the Google PageRank update treated everyone?
It went decently for me - pretty much as expected, honestly. No page rank change for this website (still 0), which is to be expected with how much I discuss things like PPP and other things that Google dislikes, so I’m not exactly disappointed or surprised.
Most websites remained the same: Gamer Hero (3), Posh Freebies, liquidLOVEonline (2), Consumer Sex Reports (1), Super Hero Fetish (2), Kung Pao Cuties (3), Kitten Kills You (2), Lux Alterna (2), and Rate A Cam Girl (2).
A few went up - mostly new websites that were previously unranked: Cherry Delish (0 to 2), Craving Curves (0 to 2), Celebrity Sex Comics (0 to 2), Gamer Fetish (0 to 2), Pink Glam Girls (0 to 1), Domino Doggie (0 to 1 - I’m pretty amused by this, considering this has a whopping two posts), and Hustle Honeys (0 to 1).
The only old website that gained any PR was, for some reason, Caramel Cams - up from 1 to 3. Huh.
Posh Vice dropped from 2 to 0, which, again, I was forewarned would happen as a result of PPP. Oh well =P And Creepypasta is still too new for any changes, I think.
So how’d things go for everyone else?
And there you have it. A taste of my current obsessions & how I waste my time when I’m not being productive & updating my websites - which is the rule rather than the exception lately, but maybe Michelle Maylene and Makenzie are signs of a hopefully-soon-to-come resurgence?
Oh, and if you haven’t checked out creepypasta.com yet, please do. I’ve been getting lots of positive feedback and it’s making me smile.
ETA: For those of you curious as to what exactly all these videos are, here’s a quick rundown: 1) The Victoria’s Secret Drinking Game, by my beloved Brooke Marks; 2) Santino’s impersonation of Tim Gunn from Project Runway Season 2; 3) The opening sequence from my new favorite video game, Tales Of The Abyss (I played as the blonde swordsman, Guy - not that anyone really cares); 4) The music video for The Bloodhound Gang’s new-ish song “Screwing You On The Beach At Night”; 5) A recap of the ten craziest bitches on this season of America’s Next Top Model by the fantastic Rich; and finally, 6) Kitten Warrior - Attack Of The Show’s parody of Ninja Warrior, which is an incredibly addicting Japanese game show on G4. Enjoy!
It seems like all I write about anymore is how I don’t have the motivation to write.
I make for some seriously boring blogging right now. Sorry about your RSS feeds, y’all.
Somebody needs to come give me a kick in the face, or something.
For those of you who were interested in seeing creepypasta.com once it was up & running - it exists now. I’m still playing with it, trying to figure out exactly how it should look & how to monetize it without making it look too yucky/tacky. If anyone has any favorite creepy/paranormal websites that I should add to the link section, definitely let me know!
That’s all for now - I really have nothing terribly fascinating to report right now; I’ve pretty much been spending all my time slacking off & playing Tales Of The Abyss
Ugh, once again it’s been proven that my immune system is COMPLETELY TERRIBLE. I don’t even know how I got sick this past week, but I’ve been all shaky and feverish for the past few days. Trying to get anything done was really frusterating, because my depth perception & general coordination was all funky, so typing anything was taking forever. I kept going all dyslexic and gibberish on AIM.
In other news, I FINALLY got to see the Kim Kardashian sex tape. I’d been wanting to see it for ages, but couldn’t find anything more than random 5-minute clips floating around. So the completely awesome Steve decided to rock my world and buy me a password to the official Vivid website. I’ve been watching it in chunks, since it’s not 100% porno and pretty long… if you dig Keeping Up With The Kardashians at all, it’s worth a viewing. There’s also a few other celeb sex tapes that you get access to, but I haven’t watched them yet.
Lastly, I bought the domain creepypasta.com as kind of a fun project for myself. I LOVE scary stories & the paranormal, and I’m completely addicted to /x/, so I thought it would be cool to have a sort of archive of all my favorite creepy stories and photos. I don’t really intend to make money from the site (other than like, the pennies you get from Google AdSense)… this is more just something that sounded like it’d be a fun side project. I’ll post about it more when I actually get the domain up & running.
That’s it for now… I think I’m going to crawl back into bed & continue my pattern of sleeping like 20/24 hours the past few days!