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Why is it that people do not understand that I actually work when I am home? UGH! My phone has been ringing all day and I am not getting much of anything done at all.  For all of those people that just don’t get the life of a blogger: YES, I have a job to do and when I am home by myself-I AM WORKING!! Do not call unless it is important or work related. If I can’t get posts done then I make no money. If you want to pay my bills, then by all means send me the money to pay my bills and I will talk to you all day long.

Do you work at home? How do you handle these problems?

I started blogging in 2007, shortly after my son was born. I had several blogs that I kept going for almost a year until I quit. I loved blogging but I was in the process of trying to find a work at home job and did not have the time to dedicate to it. After trying unsuccessfully for 3 years to find a job that I could do from home, I made the decision to start blogging again.

When I first started in 2007, I belonged to several mom blogger groups. We all helped each other and had a great time doing so. After deciding to start blogging again, I have been inundated with mom blogger groups. There are so many out there now. I have found a couple that have been very helpful to me and others where people are just trying to get followers to their blogs, blog Facebook pages, feeds, etc. I am a member of MANY groups but am active in only a few. I can’t even count how many groups I belong to. It seems to me that more groups and forums pop up all of the time for people to network together. I have found through my trials that many of these groups are not as helpful as they seem to be.

In many of the groups I have joined, there are subforums. These subforum groups are the place to find others with the same blog niche as yours, other blogs with Facebook pages, groups created solely to get more followers to their blogs, etc. Now, I have followed numerous blogs either through Facebook or via email feed subscription. I have since noticed that the only place I have had success is the Facebook followers. As for people subscribing to my feeds-zip, nada, zilch. I have had maybe 3 or 4 people that have subscribed after doing several blog hops and such to try to grow my readership numbers. I wasted many, many hours doing this. BLECH! My time is valuable and to think I wasted all of that time for naught. The Facebook follows were great-the only issue with this is that to “count” as a follower on Facebook, you have to follow as your personal page. This has both good and bad points. The good thing about this is that if you actually follow the blogs you like to read then you get to see when they make posts as they make them. The bad part is that your personal space is covered with blogs instead of your Facebook friends and family. SO, I am still following a few choice blogs on my personal page. I decided to “like” pages with my blog page instead. That way I know that strangers are not privy to my personal info.

I have decided that most blog groups are not my thing. They have not helped me much. I am still checking out a few to see if they are worth my time. A few that I like are Social Moms, SITS, Social Fabric and my friends from the daily blog hop (you know who you are- I don’t want our group inundated with pointless bloggers just trying to join yet another group). I am still checking out Seeded Buzz, You Say Too, and a few others. Still on the fence about how GFC and Networked Blogs helps.

In conclusion, I belong to waaaayyy too many blogger groups. What about you?

Well, somehow I deleted all of my posts first thing this morning. Can we say “MAJOR PANIC ATTACK!!??” I had o uninstall WP and reinstall it.

Anyway, here we go, after not posting here for a while, I am back. Over the past few years, I have had some major changes in my life. Two years ago, my dad went into the hospital to have 2 of his toes amputated. He subsequently had to have his lower leg amputated. After his surgery, the anesthesia caused him to have dementia.He had no clue what was going on at all. My mom placed him in the nursing home due to the fact that she could not care for him. My brothers and 1 of my sisters took him out of the nursing home after several months and took him home to Mom and basically were going to leave him there with her. Just the week before, my mom had an emergency surgery to install a pacemaker. After speaking to an attorney, he recommended that she divorce him due to the fact that she no longer had control of what he did and with the amount of property they had, she did not want to be responsible for his actions should something happen. We ended up losing him in July of last year. I have not spoken to my 2 brothers or 1 of my sisters since. They cut my mom and my other 2 sisters out of my dad’s life and conned him out of everything he had. My parents were forced into getting a divorce after 64 yearsof marriage. I have not been the same since. Not a day goes by that I don’t cry about the way things turned out. Greed is an monstrous thing and it has torn my life and my family apart. My depression has since worsened and I am not the same happy-go-lucky person I once was. I would give anything to be normal again. My sister had always been my best friend (or so I thought). It is really hard to know that the person you have entrusted your heart and soul to could stab you so viciously in the back.  They even buried my dad the day before the memorial service and left my mom, myself and my 2 other sisters out. They then proceeded to turn my dad’s memorial service into a huge circus. They have tried to make it look like they were not at fault in anything. My dad worked his whole life for everything he had and they conned him out of it before he died. He died a pauper and it was all because of greed.