A Public Diet

I seem to still be loosing weight. Due to my job I’m sure.  I just don’t feel like writing much on my blog right now.

I’m pretty sure I haven’t lost any weight lately.  I haven’t been eating healthy.  Its been French fries, cheese burgers, soda’s, ice cream, all the way.  Its a stress thing.  Its being unhappy because of my lack of free time and the fact that I barely see my husband at all.  Ads have been slowing down and book sales have been slowing down.  Coyote has my computer so much that I haven’t been able to work on my book and I’m hanging a lot on Coyotes work in the virtual economy.  Its worrisome depending so much on the work done by a 15 year old kid.  Especially with me not being there to supervise.

I saw an add for philadelphia accident attorneys the other day. You know the service of an accident attorney is something that I hope I never have to deal with. MWSDLegal.com looks like a good one to hire if your living in the Philadelphia area. They were established in 1994 and are comprised of 5 attorneys and 12 support staff. Thats a lot of staff for a law office. At least it sounds like a lot for the ones I have seen here in town. For my divorce I used one that had only himself and his legal secretary. Then when we did our bankruptcy we used a law office with a bankruptcy attorney and a criminal attorney and a handful of legal secretaries so I would say a full staff of 17 people would be a pretty good size. They ought to be able to handle just about any problem that you threw at them. They even work on a contingency so you don’t have to worry about paying them unless then win something. That can be a big concern if your injured and can’t work. After all if you can’t work you can’t pay them.

I’ve found myself working so much on the book store that I am neglecting my blogs.  I really really need that extra six hours a day back.  I can’t have them back though.

Coyote made 50 dollars last night on his game.  Thats 50 real dollars too, not game dollars.  I am really excited to see what else he does with it.  who knows, in a few months maybe I can get that extra six hours back.  But with the economy continuing to get worse because our government can’t get a hold on things I don’t see myself giving it up.

I found myself looking for dropship products yesterday to be listed in my amazon store. I’m actually thinking of using rare seeds. I was going to be dropshipping them but it would be cheaper for me to buy them buy the hundred and sell them in packs of 10 or 15. One example would be a blood banana, a rare and expensive thing. I decided to do this because my rare yellow honeysuckle has sold so well. I don’t have the luxury of an online storefront but I am able to use amazon for my advertising and transactions.

Shopster e-Commerce provides a unique combination of integrated online storefront software and drop shipped products, and even auction selling tools. Its something I will have to try and find time to check out on Thursday if I can make the time. It would be really nice to have a store front. Then when I tell people about my online store I would have a website to send them to and not just tell them I sell things on Amazon without a store front. A lot of people, especially the older people that I work with don’t really understand that when I try to explain it.

I just ate a fried chicken Tv dinner.  Thats nearly 500 calories.  Last night I had two bowls of ice cream.  I’m eating my frustrations again.   If I get 6 hours of sleep a night instead of 8 I will have two more hours to do crap and burn that many more calories while I am awake that two hours.  I don’t do very well without sleep though.  Especially when working in an environment where I don’t have quick access to coffee.  I guess I could take caffeine pills but I’m a little concerned about the jitters and the fact that caffeine pills give you the kidney stones.  Well, on a good note my frustrated emotions burn more calories than happy emotions.

You know as I look at the way business on line works I am beginning to wonder if things like trade shows may become a thing of the past. Surely not. after all we all need to buy things in real life. Not everyone wants to live there lives in a virtual economy (although in a virtual economy you don’t have to worry about things like. I will probably never create something that should be sold or offered at a trade show but if I did I would use pop up trade show booths. They look like there really easy to set up. I’m sure if you have rented space at a trade show your going to want to have that booth up as quickly as possible.

I haven’t had much to write about lately.  My few weeks of strict dieting did wonders for my body.  I definitely did get smaller.  All of my pants now hang on my waist.  The past two weeks have not been good though, especially this past weekend.  There has been a sharp decline in sales and work since around Thursday or so.  I don’t like to see my online income declining when the cost of everything else continues to rise.  The world economy with the exception of a few places like Brazil is in a state of complete disaster.  I now have a way to possibly pull myself out of it but all of the demands on my time are hindering that.  I’ve talked to my husband (one of the largest demands on my time) about this and hopefully got it through his head he is going to have to use him time away from work for something other than house work and sitting on his rear watching TV.  I appreciate the house work and it is needed but its not what needs to be done right now.  We have a 12 year old that needs to get off of her but and do the house work.  Her dad is going to have to explain this to her because she will just get mad and yell if I try to explain it to her.  I need to tell him to do this when her brother is not around because he will use it as something to irritate her with.

Have you ever heard of lifelock. Its one of those organizations that alerts you when there is suspicious activity going on your credit. In this day and age as people become more and more desperate your going to see a lot more of that happening. There catching people at Wal-Mart stealing a lot more than they used to and the things they are stealing are mostly food. They caught a woman trying to sneak out with 500 dollars worth of meat in her cart. You know your pretty desperate if your stealing meat.

Unlike most companies in the current state of the economy Lifelock is actually growing due to more consumers being concerned about identity theft. There also hiring so if your looking for a job with a growing company other than Wal-Mart you may want to consider applying. They don’t appear to be jobs you can telecommute to which is a pity.

I saw an article on a blog today blaming over spending of lower and middle class consumers for our current economic crisis.  Do you ever wonder if people that blame the consumer for consumer woes are smoking crack.  Do they not see whats going on around them.  There is a business thats been in this town for 50 years that is shutting its doors.  Sadly they cater to the rich and I guess the rich are no longer in a position to by expensive furniture.  I loved how in there commercial they said they were selling there fine furniture to the “general public”.  Thats pretty insulting isn’t it.   I work my 36 hour a week part time job (since when did 36 hours become part time) and watch people walk around the grocery section with worried looks on there faces.   My little home town has not been hit to hard.  a new industry is moving in the area that will allow people that can’t work grueling factory jobs to have desk jobs.