Oh dear, bad bad Viki for not having blogged yet this year, I have become such a Swaymyway.com abandoner! In my defense, a part from my usual laziness/lack of any thing to blog about I do have an excuse…two in fact. 1) Big Brother Celebrity Hijack started, that means 1000s of hits per day to RealityTVFan.org if I put the effort in = :dollar: and 2) My lovely fancy schmancy logitech wireless keyboard and mouse randomly died on me…just stopped working…I’ve only had them since my birthday 2006, I’d never even needed to change the batteries in it yet (and yes, I did try new batteries before declaring it dead). Now I am using some ghetto 1993 keyboard with a dodgy space bar (no joke, my thumb is all sore and swollen for hitting it so hard, and on a bad day it’s actually easier to copy and paste a space instead) and a mouse with no back button or scroller wheel, you don’t realise how much you rely on stupid little features such as a back button and volume control on your keyboard until they are gone, aaarrrggghh.

So, Happy New Year you lovelies you. Gavin got off work early and drove up here, despite having to head back for work the next day and not having a day off in 2 weeks, aww :throb: He didn’t arrive until 11pm though, so it was too late to really do anything. So we just drove off up the way at about 20 to 12 and found a great contryfied lane to park on, then we got out of the car and watched the fireworks at midnight. It was pretty awesome, we got a really good spot because you could see for miles in 3 directions and the fireworks were going on for a good 15 - 20 minutes! Then it was back to mine for some mindless TV, drinkies, foodies and bringing in the new year with a bang
I have seen a bunch of people post about their 2007, the highs and lows and achievements and failures etc - I am not going to do that because 2007 was a bit of a nothing year for me, nothing great happened, nothing horrible happened, no major changes to relationship status, employment status, living arrangements etc. I have also seen a bunch of people posting their new years resolutions and I am also not going to do that, I don’t do new years resolutions - I feel like no one really means them when they make them, it’s just something to do because others are doing it, and that’s why most have failed within a month. I did however scribble down a few ‘goals’ I have set for my online endeavours over the next few months that I will share with you.

* Bring Swaymyway.com back to it’s former glory - It’s clear that in 2007 I abandoned this blog, taking that 2-3 month hiatus really wasn’t the best idea it turns out, it’s amazing how fast ‘loyal’ visitors disappear if you don’t feed them for a while. Though even before, and after the hiatus it’s obvious I haven’t been putting much effort into running this site. So bringing it back to it’s former glory will involve a) Making a new layout, no template…something I make myself. This current layout has been up how long? b) Getting traffic back up, so prepare for lots of return comments and social networking site widgets. c) Removal of all adverts except the banner ads. No one clicks on the adsense ads here any way, so I may as well remove them and concentrate on optimizing them on other sites instead. d) blog at least twice a week.

* Plugboard.org - as above. It has been pretty abandoned and left to run itself over the last year. The ads are more lucrative so will stay, but traffic needs improving greatly.

* RealityTVFan.org - Work to get more hits and research more money making opportunities.

* Create a new weight loss site. I am planning on registering a new domain to blog about my weight loss, honestly…it’s for the money, I won’t lie. RealityTVFan.org has shown me how easy it is to make an income online, setting up a site to make money - why didn’t I ever do this before? I’d never ’sell out’ swaymyway and plugboard in this way, because they are ‘personal’ sites, they were never created with the intention to make money…but RealityTVFan.org was and it’s easy. I chose weight loss as the subject for the simple fact that it is part of my daily life, working out, eating right, trying to be healthy are all things I do every day - so it’ll be easy for me to blog about often, add content and as it’s a ‘journey’ constantly add to etc. I need to come up with a name though, I can’t think of any thing good…and even the not so good stuff I come up with is all taken, it’s amazingly hard to come up with any sort of weight loss related domain name that isn’t already taken. Any suggestions?

* Go to bed earlier. “That’s not online related you silly” I hear you thinking (yes, I can hear you think…beware!), but it’s the Internet that keeps me up until past 6am most nights…namely Bingo…since discovering free* bingo it’s actually become my main source of money, but in order to make as much as I do I need to play when the rooms are quiet…aka the dead of night. So although come 5am I am ready for bed and demanding I log off, when there’s just a few people playing and I am winning it’s hard to tear myself away, knowing if I stay another hour or so I can make $20 - $40.

And that is all.

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