Busy, Busy, Busy

You know, I think I like this getting up at six thing. Since I’ve never been a morning person and have a long track record of scowling at silly people who are cheerful before the sunrise, I thought this adjustment would be much harder than it is.

On the other hand, this month is website work month for me and after working maybe two or three hours per week for the last two years or so, things have finally come to the point where pretty much everything needs revamping, recoding, or worse. So my waking hours have all been spent doing that.

The older kids are in school in the afternoon when the little ones are napping, and they’ve all been fairly well put together in the mornings. Plus, George and I have both been home so even though we’re both working, we are also both able to keep an eye on things. Yay for working from home!

Almost all of the work on my first site, HiddenAuction.com is done, and now I’m about ready to move on to Gymboree News. There is so much to do there that I’ve been procrastinating it for oh, about two years now. But I’m going to spend the whole rest of the month on it, race through, and hopefully get it all up and running properly by February 1st. Then I can go back to two hours a week. And then I’ll have all this extra time from getting up early that I’ll be able to use on non-computer activities (that’s the plan anyway). I’m so excited!

Okay, well in addition to writing the opening for Gymboree News and publishing the newsletter tonight and the fiddling with the HiddenAuction.com home page and hiring a coder for some custom programming that I did this morning, today I also have to get my marketing package for Gymboree News organized. This is the busiest time of year for that and I saved my whole package from last year (which I completely redid from the year before and which worked very well) so it shouldn’t be too bad. I hope.

Oh! Part of my grand, take-over-the-world marketing plan involves Facebook so I’ve been monkeying around on there quite a bit. So in my doodling, I found these really cool Facebook badges that are now on the side of my Shubinesque.com website. You can see some of our recent pictures from the snowstorm and if you are say, my mother or grandparents, you can sign up for Facebook by clicking on my or George’s name. So go do that.

That’s about all the news around here. Time to go make biscuits to go with dinner. Mmmmm, biscuits….

Rachel