A not so smooth Thursday

This morning I woke up at 7:30am, thinking my boy probably would sleep in till later. He woke up at 7:35am demanding for his milk. He was crying and crying, and couldn't wait for the milk to be warmed. I know immediately today is not going to be a good day for me.

While having my breakfast, my boy came to me with his doodle board and requested me to draw CLOCK for him. I told him nicely to let me eat my breakfast. He was upset and kept asing for 'DOK DOK!'. Can't I have my breakfast in peace?

Then I had to head out to Target and stop at Ikea to return the comforter. While at Target, my boy wanted some crackers/cookies. I gave him the mini teddy cinnamon grahams. He took a few but while we were at the toys department, he kept screaming to come down from the stroller. I let him. After a while, I told him to get back on the stroller so we could go pay for the toy he picked from the shelf. He listened and on the stroller he went.

He was holding his toy and then he started sreaming again, pointing to his mouth. I wasn't sure what was wrong. Gave him water but he didn't calm down. I quickly went to the cashier and paid for the stuff I got and we left. He was fine after that.

We went back to the car and left the bags in the trunk, took out the comforter and walked to Ikea which was just next to Target. The return process took me about less than 5 minutes but the waiting took me more than 15 minutes. Then something really fumed me up happened while I was browsing through their showroom ... if you want to know, you got to read here.

500 posts!

I can't believe it. It has been 8 months since I took the plunge into doing paid postings and now I have done 500 Izea posts! I still remember I was happily posting about my 101th post here back in June. So far, I am still enjoying coming up with paid postingsa nd will continue on doing it for as long as I can. If you have yet to take part in paid posting, you may want to check it out. Scroll down my side bar to the bottom and there is a bagde for PayPerPost. Click there to sign up.

This is not a paid posting.

PageRank dropped again

This morning after reading my Hubby's blog about his PR drop, I quickly went over to my PPP to check, thinking my blogs would be OK. But like his, both my blogspot blogs PR went down to big fat ZERO! Both had PR 2 just yesterday and now is KOSONG! I really don't understand why is so. Number of hits remained the same, not much different from previously. I guess it is all depending on how much Google loves your blog or not.

You will probably see less of me blogging here now. If you want to see picture and read my story, hop on to here.

Pr down again!

Ooops ... this blog PR went from PR 4 to PR 3 last week. Today I just noticed that it dropped again from PR 3 to PR 2. No wonder I don't see many opps for me at TigaP. With under PR3, it will be hard to find good paying opportunity anymore. At least give me a break in writing the interim posts. Sometimes I feels very tired to keep writing and writing. A break sounds good.

I hate Ants

I hate ants. I was lucky that I never have any ants problem here until this summer. May be because now I have a toddler around and with kids you know, they attract ants too. Another thing is I have less time to clean up properly and also maintain the kitchen well enough.

Ants are a problem in my house now. Once they come, they will return no matter how we tried to keep them out. They have the strongest antenna and scent that can find something we wouldn't know that will attract them at the first place.

Whenever there are ants, I use the vacuum cleaner. I tried to follow the trail but I can't go through walls. I don't use insect spray as much because I have a little boy at home. I tried my best to keep the stuff that has history of ant attraction like this so no ants can find them. Yup, a plate with water with all the items in the center. Very tall indeed.

My Alexa Ranking

I really don't understand why my Alexa ranking is always so high on all of my blogs. My blogger friends have been having good and low Alexa ranking but mine is way too high to be able to grab any good paying opps from 3Ps.

I've tried many methods suggested by my fellow friend in Sydney but it didn't help boost the number at all. *sigh* I guess my sites just don't have much high traffic that's why the score is staying over the 1 million mark. I have to just bare with it.

Being picky

Although I have a lot of 'white' opps in my PPP marketplace, I do not take all of them. Some pays too little for too many words or links. Some pays too little but needed to do too much research to come up with the post.

I am being picky now although I am yet to reach my daily maximum but I forgo these opportunities available to me. Even now that PPP has increase our postings to 3 day (which was how it was when I started but then reduced to 2 per day a few months back), I still not able to do 3 per blog.

There are many other opps but most of them, my blogs don't qualify to write. I wonder when will be the next page ranking update. I can't wait for that and eager to find out how my other blogs are doing with this update.

This is why I can't let 'them' care for my son

I am mad now. Really mad. Why? The reason is because 'they' just don't know how to care for baby. They came to play with him this afternoon like every other day. I also don't know how to say this but they just don't know when the baby diaper needs to be change. That's one main reason why I don't leave my son with them.

Just moment ago, MIL came to tell me that I need to change him because he peed on his fitted cloth diaper. I said OK, let me change him, then when I opened up the diaper, there was the big flattened poop in there too. My head start steaming already.

Then I said out loudly, he pooped. You know what she said? She said, "No wonder I smelled something weird weird." Aiyo, if you smelled something weird then tell me mar. You were the one whom sitting and carrying him around. Geram because of her for not informing me earlier, and she thought I angry of Brandon.

The poop settled down the cloth diaper for quite a while and the yellow stain was difficult to wash off. If the poop was discover fresh, it is very easy to wash off from the Kissaluv fitted cloth diaper.

That's why I can't let anyone else to take care of my son because they just don't know how to care of baby. Not much experience or should I say 'expired' experience.

Parking at Griffith Torrance Adult School

It is so difficult to find parking at Griffith Torrance Adult School when I attend the Parenting Class on every Tuesday morning from 9am to 12pm.

First week, I parked by the street.

Second week, I was lucky, and was able to find a car leaving when I was driving through the inside parking lot, which means a nearer walk for us to the class.

Third week, which was today, we arrived around 920am and it took me 10 minutes to find a spot. We drove around the school twice and then I decided to park off campus across the street. Yup, street parking was full too.

First time I had to use the stroller to take my son to the class. Too far to be carrying him and walking. Not good for my back.

Extra Salmon from dinner

Yesterday MIL called in the early afternoon and asked if we wanted to go over for dinner. She's making roast beef, one of my Hubby's fave dish. Yea, he is a meat person. I told her we were going to have salmon and vege for dinner. I said that I already had the salmon out. She told me to cook the salmon the next day (ie: today), but I told her we usually eat out on Friday/weekend. She then asked me how many pieces of salmon I had. I told her I had 7 half steaks which I bought from Marukai, they were those lightly salted kind. She then told me to cook the dish and bring it over to have together for the dinner.

When evening came, I pan fried the salmon steaks. All 7 pieces. I usually only cook half the pack - 3 pcs for our own dinner. After Hubby came home, we went over to MIL's house together with the 6 pcs of salmon. Hubby and I each took 1 pc of salmon while the other three (MIL, FIL and SIL) all didn't take a single pc. I thought they would have it later.


But then after dinner ended, there were still 5 pcs left on my plate. At the dinner table I asked if MIL wanted to keep the salmon as we didn't want the leftover as we won't be eating home on the weekend. She said NO. I was shocked. She was the one whom told me to cook all and she hardly had a bite, none of them had any. She told me salty salmon steak makes her blood sugar high.

Aiya, then why you told me to cook all to bring over if nobody from ur home going to eat leh? Now I have these 5 pcs of salmon in my fridge. Not sure when we going to finish them all. I dislike having the similar dish for days. So kek hey only let me tell you lar. I complaint to Hubby and he said next time we don't go over for dinner anymore.

My own time?

My Hubby goes to work early in the morning. Comes back around 5-5:30pm. My main task for the day time when Hubby is not around is to take care of Brandon, and earn some extra income by blogging. I cook sometimes, I clean, I do laundry (my own, Brandon's, the diapers, beddings, towels, floor mats) and more.

So I would need a little time to myself in the evening. But my only ME TIME is after Brandon goes to sleep, probably around 10pm onwards. I was so tired by then, I can only stay up until 12am latest. A few nights I stayed up till 1230am but I was too tired the next day.

Between 10pm-12am I usually sit in front of my laptop whilst blogs hopping, postings, editing pictures as well as doing other chores like cleaning up, washing diaper, folding cloths, and if I have any extra time will try to catch part of a movie/tvb series but very seldom.

So there you go ... my barely 2 hours daily ME TIME.

Tuesday Garbage Day

Tuesday is our garbage day. I hate Tuesday because every Tuesday my son wakes up earlier than he supposed to. He will hear the loud garbage truck passing our street as well as the noice of picking up the trashcan to dump the garbage into the truck.

Every Tuesday morning I wake up early, closed all the rooms' doors and make sure windows are all tight. I even turn on the music CD. But when the garbage truck passes by our house, he sure will startle from his sleep and look for me. I have no choice but to take him out to our living room's window to let him view the garbage truck activity on the street.

How I wish the master bedroom is located on the back of the house. But not. Our master bedroom is just behind the garage and the first room from the front.

Some people just don't know how to listen

When I told someone many times, repeatedly over and over again that I would give her a call when my boy is awake and ready for play time, but she never listen. Sometimes she calls to my home while my boy is still napping and the ringing of the phone 'may' startle and wake him up. I appreciate my personal time but to be taken away like that is not how I like it.

She did it again just now. My boy is napping inside our bedroom. It is hot day, and I really wanted him to sleep longer. But this lady called and asked if my boy was awake. If she called to ask me about else things, then it would have been better. But she asked if my boy was awake because she wanted to come over. I almost wanted to raise my voice to repeat what I've told her multiply times that when he is ready for playtime I WILL CALL.

Some people just don't know how to listen to instruction.

3Ps threw away my submitted post

Been great with PPP until today. Here's the story:

Received a post rejection email from PPP Tuesday morning at 11am. The post was submitted on August 27th. Logged into my PPP, checked the post and was told that my blog PR is lower than the requirement.

My blog has just re-ranked Tuesday morning and dropped from PR 3 to N/A. When I wrote the post and submitted it, my blog still had a PR=3. Or else I wouldn't be able to select that particular blog to submit, rite?! PPP has set up that only the blogs with the criterias will be available to post the opp.

I quickly wrote a ticket in yesterday. Received a reply this morning, but irrelevant to my question.

This was the reply: "I checked your rankings manually this afternoon and they are current. "

I know my PR is current, I was asking about the post before the re-ranking before yesterday morning. So I submitted another ticket this morning at 1130am. Then in the afternoon, my rejected post that was supposed to be at the top of "my posts" dissappeared. I looked and it wasn't even back inside with my other approved posts. Conclusion, PPP deleted my post.

In the rejection email: "If this post is not corrected within 3 days, it will be deleted."

Aren't we given THREE DAYS to rectify the error? And the slow reply from the ticket is not helping with it.

I don't know how they will reply my ticket now. I don't think they will be able to find the submitted opp again. But I still have the rejection email from PPP. May be I can fight for it. I don't even remember how much that opp was for.

144 Unique Visitors because of FDKE!

WOW, imagine 144 unique visitors to your blog everyday. Well, not mine but Yeloh-Powah.

On July 24th, he received a marketing text message on his cellphone to purchase FDKE stock. If you are not familiar with American's cellphone service plan, we have to pay for text message received and is 10 cents each text message. He was so annoyed by that text message (that cost his prepaid phone 10 cents) encouraging him to purchase the stock, he went to do research about this FDKE stock. It turned out to be junk stock. So don't buy. Read his readers comments on his blog.

A few days ago, there was another major release of the text message from FDKE again. This time, many people went online to search FDKE again. If you do a search on google for FDKE, you'll see his blog 4th link from the top. That's how he's been getting all his unique visitors. Hopefully, with this will improve his PR when is due for re-ranking.

Finally can sit down

Ya, finally I can sit down peaceful. My boy is finally asleep. He woke up early this morning at 630am, right after his daddy left for work. I was tired because last nite I slept around 1230am and woke up around 1am because the little boy whined a little and wanted water. Woke up again around 530am as he was looking for his pillow.

Thought he would go back to sleep after I gave him his milk at 645am. He looked very tired but yet, he didn't want to sleep. Rolled around the bed for a while and then wanted to go outside. And my nightmare began. Didn't have time to do the $50 PPP, which was OK. But then didn't have time to prepare his porridge for HIS lunch which made me madder. He was constantly coming into the kitchen opening the drawers and taking things out. I kept telling him no no no, but he didn't listen.

I stopped doing the chopping and took him inside to nap, but he didn't want to. Kept eh eh eh ... I also didn't know what he wanted. So I brought him out again. Started playing with the stuff in my drawers, the tuperwares containers and then my pots and pans. So pening kepala already me. Not enough sleep and this while cooking, aiyo ... steam also coming out. How in the time like this I wish I have a maid.

My hands were wet and the floor was wet because my hands moving to close the drawers. He slipped and sat down. I laughed at him because I said I told him no he didn't listen. He cried. Then I took him to the dining area and left him there while I continued my cooking. I didn't bother about him. I couldn't. I had to finish the cooking. I didn't care mar let him cry. He kept coming up to me but I ignored him and took him back to the dining area. YA, I am that cold. I knew he was tired.

So I faster faster finished up the stuff, washed the rice and put inside the pot, turn the fire to small. Washed my hands, washed a towel to wipe off the tears and everything else on his face, washed his hands, gave him water, checked his diaper (was dry), put him on the bed, gave him his pacifier, put him down ... slept beside him for 1 minute, then I saw his eyes closing, then I left the room. He fell asleep in 2 minutes. Now peace is with me ... aaaahh ... for only 1 hour.

Miss my chances

Saw so many white $50 opps at PPP this morning, but wasn't fast enough to catch it. By the time I enter the passcodes to reserve the opp, they were all gone. Even saw the $500 but that one was grey when I refreshed. PPP is working rather slowly, guess their server is over crowded by posties like you and me. hehehe

Another ranting

Is summer time and is hot, really. I can understand if MIL wants to wear housecoat. You know housecoat? A flair dress for home. What she does is very inappropriate, I think. At her own home, she does that when I go over too. And if she comes to my home, she does that at my home. She flashes in front of me! She pulls her dress up and flashes (she told me she did that so air goes inside to cool down). Sometimes she sit 'kang-kang' open coffee shop, if you understand what I mean. I don't want to go into detail what I see.

She is here now, and she did it again. Is OK if no one sees it. But it is so 'malu' (shame) for me (or Brandon even though he is still young) to see "it". Told her many times, her daughter told her many times too, but she never change. I better go clean and wash my eyes with dettol now.

Watch where you going please

Driving can be very stressful for me sometimes. That's why I hardly go out now, especially driving my boy and myself. I waited for the weekend when my hubby is off from work then we go out together and he drives.

Just like last week when I drove my boy to his last music class for the summer semester. The white Honda in front of me was swerving left and right like drunk. How I wished I have a train horn on my Camry to give this person a wake up call. So instead of the regular route to the school, I took a detour.

Stay At Home Mom

I am really a stay at home mom. I mean, I hardly go out with my son alone by myself on the weekdays, except when we have music class. That was the only time I will drive him out the house. Now that the summer semester is overed, we will have to wait till the fall semester begins on Sept 10th. Other than the music class, we stay home all day all week, except on weekends when Daddy doesn't have to work.

I feel a little left out from the society lately. I don't get much interaction with outside people. Even when I was at the music class, not much conversation among the moms. Well, there are groups of people which I wasn't a part of. Also with my busy schedule now, I hardly keep in touch with my friends. I also joined a stay-at-home-mom group but haven't even been to any of their meetups yet. There was one time they were meeting up at a kids-friendly coffee shop but the drive was kinda far away from my place, about 20-30 minutes each way, so I passed.

I guess my world now revolves around my boy, and only my boy (of course and his Daddy too). So I am really a STAY AT HOME MOM.