Health Freak Mommy 10th Anniversary

Health Freak Mommy was created in April 2007. This year marks her 10th anniversary in the world wide web, WOW!  Can't believe that I have been blogging for 10 years already!!

Admittedly, my main purpose of setting up a blog back then was to monetize the blog to earn some side income. But after years of blogging and having  made so many good friends and loyal fans from blogging, the main purpose of retaining my three blogs now is PASSION and love.  At times, I have thoughts of giving up on blogging due to lack of time and lost of mojo to keep blogging. Sometimes, just to fill up the space, I write vapid articles.  Sometimes my mind goes blank for days and I struggle to purge out something just to update my blogs. But how can I just let my three 'babies' turn orphans and left hanging in the world wide web neglected with cob webs?  So I guess you'll still be reading crap from my blogs for some time 😁

April is also a special month for me. It is the birth month of Cass, my youngest daughter. In a few days, my baby girl will turn 9. Cass has really come a long, long way from being a sickly baby. Though she still has battles to fight now, which I will be rooting for her all the way, I am pretty sure we can overcome all of them with her positive attitude and determination of steel. 💪💪

All Done Finally !

After spending half a day sitting in front of the PC, I finally completed all 15 online assignments and 2 non-paid posts! Gawd, it is indeed stressful having to purge out 15 ads in half a day. There were plenty of interruptions from the kids in between and I also had a whiny, fussy Baby who isn't feeling too well. She's having the sniffles and a slight fever. She's terribly crabby and wants me all the time. It's past midnight now and I could barely open my eyes. I am hitting the sack now.

Get Pretty Backgrounds And Headers For Your Blogspot Blog For Free

I was at this mummy's blog and noticed that she had added a very pretty backdrop and header to her blog. I had long wanted to accessories my blogspot blog with a pretty backdrop and quickly asked her where she got the codes for the backdrop from. She got it from Simply Blog It Backgrounds. There are tons of beautiful backgrounds to choose from and it is SO, SO easy to add the codes in as the owner of the blog had given very easy step-by-step instructions. Initially, I wanted a pink background as pink is my favorite color but after trying a few pink backgrounds, I found that the pink color was dwarfing and drowning the words and pictures in my blog. I figured that a white background is still more pleasant and not so strenuous on the eyes.

If a HTML idiot and IT-challenged mum like me can add the codes to the template, so can you. If you've always wanted to accessories your plain blog, check out Simply Blog It Backgrounds. It's so easy you can have a new header and background everyday!

Another Solution To My Photo Upload Woes

I just discovered another solution for my photo upload woes in my Blogspot blog. Remember my previous post where I said that my free photo upload space of 1GB is already maxed out and I need to purchase the space from Picassa Web Album? Well, I can go to Flickr and upload my pix there. I've forgotten all about my Flickr account. I can even link my blogs to my Flickr account and upload pix as well as blog from Flickr without having to log in to my blog! I've spent my afternoon trying to do it and have successfully uploaded and made a blog post from my Flickr account. However, the blog post needed some adjustments to the codes and I have yet to find the time to do it. You may want to try blogging and uploading your pix from Flickr too to save the free space in your blogspot blog!

BTW, I'm not that smart. Credit should go to my sifu, the super blogger who earns big bucks from her blogs. You'll flip to find out how many blogs this lady has!

My Streamyx Is Finally Up Again....

.... after 11 long and agonizing days! That's how inefficient our TM Net is, as expected and this is not the first time I suffer as a result of their inefficiency. The last time hubby changed owner in our fixed phone line, my streamyx connection was down for 8 days... and that also I had to call them once every 2-3 hours, every day for 8 days to breathe down their lazy necks. Had it not been me being a pain in their lazy necks, I think they will take forever to get the Streamyx up again.

Anyway, the feeling I had when I got back my Streamyx was one of ecstatic and relief. It felt as if I hadn't eaten for 11 days and could finally eat. It just felt great to be able to refresh my screen, save a document, upload pix, etc. without getting an error message or having to wait for 15 minutes or more to get to a website. However, I could hardly find the time to blog during the day as I still have some unpacking to do. Baby C is also still purging and I have to wash her bum like 10 times a day.... after each poopie business and after she had wet her diapers coz her diaper area is so sore and it's best that I wash it clean to prevent the area from getting sore further and to prevent nappy rash. The only time I can blog is at night, when my 3 monkeys are all fast asleep. Ahh.... what bliss to be able to blog in peace!

Blog Break...

Hubby gave me a shock when he told me a moment ago that TM will cancel my Streamyx connection today to facilitate the transfer of line to our new condo. He told me yesterday that he will only do the transfer later this week but now it's today! Luckily I don't have any outstanding offers to dish out for advertisers. Haiz..... I will definitely have withdrawal syndromes without the computer!

I don't know how long it will take for the Streamyx to be up again at my new place. I hope it's not going to be more than a week like what happened recently.... knowing how inefficient TM is.

BTW, my mil learnt how to make these dainty yummylicious ang koo the other day. Check out my health blog to read on.






Oh yes, please DO MISS my blog k? *wink*

Getting Some Peaceful And Quiet Time... In The Wee Hours Of The Morning

I woke up to the words "mummy, my pants are wet!" at 5am today. Alycia had peed in her pants! After washing her up and changing her, I couldn't go back to sleep. So what else? Of course I went downstairs to my PC and started to check for offers and checked my email. Managed to grabbed some offers and started to work on them. I could hardly find the time and peace of mind to blog during the day when my 3 rascals are awake, so the best time for me to do so is in the wee hours of the morning. It's quiet and I feel so refreshed, well maybe not that refreshed as I am still groggy being just up from bed, but at least I can think straight without 2 attention-seeking toddlers and a wailing baby distracting me.

Site Statistics

I have not been checking the site statistics for both my blogs for quite some time and when I checked today, I was really astounded and ecstatic to find that my Blogspot blog has finally breached the 1,000-a-day visitor mark! Woot, that's really great. Here's an excerpt of the statistics from my Google Adsense account :

Day / date / no. of visitors

Friday, August 1, 2008
254

Saturday, August 2, 2008
452

Sunday, August 3, 2008
601

Monday, August 4, 2008
1,210

Tuesday, August 5, 2008
876

Wednesday, August 6, 2008
871

Thursday, August 7, 2008
836

Friday, August 8, 2008
589

Saturday, August 9, 2008
408

Sunday, August 10, 2008
322



Traffic is normally lower towards the weekend.

My statistics for my dot com blog isn't too bad too and I have between 400-500+ visitors a day.

High traffic/visitors = good Real Ranking = more opps. No wonder I got a USD100 opp from 3P today. To all my readers out there, thanks very much for visiting my blog!

Blogging Marathon

I have not worked up my brain at full steam for quite some time. Guess how many assignments I managed to complete yesterday and today? 18 paid posts! And more than 20 personal posts as interim posts. All I need is 2 hours yesterday and 3 hours today. It really ain't easy to steal a few hours a day, away from my house, away from Alycia and Sherilyn... but not away from Baby C as I need to nurse her every 1.5 - 2 hours. That's why Baby C is with me here, at hubby's office on her pink bouncinet, with my worked up left leg bouncing her net and my worked up fingers tapping on the computer keyboard.

Live Traffic Feed

You notice the life traffic feed by FeedJit on my right side bar? I just installed this widget yesterday and it's really fun to see where my visitors come from. I am really impressed that many of my visitors come from overseas countries, especially USA. And it's really interesting to know that I have visitors coming to my blog every minute of the day. That explains the 300-400 visitors I get to each of my blog per day.

No Time To Blog

Today must have been my lucky day. Managed to grab 12 opps from my favorite advertising network. Now, I have to find the time to finish these posts in 2 days. It's quite difficult for me to blog during the day with 2 clingy toddlers and a newborn baby who wants my boops the entire day. I guess I will have to burn the midnight oil tonight.

It's time for my lunch now. My CL has cooked turmeric chicken, papaya soup with pork ribs and peanuts and a stir-fried vege. After lunch, it's back to work on my computer. That's why my weight just can't go down coz I've been so sedentary lately. Oooh, just can't wait for 2 months to pass coz that's when I can start exercising again.

Happy Birthday

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http://www.healthfreakmommy.blogspot.com/
happy birthday to you.

Today marks the first anniversary of my blogspot blog. I would like to thank all my loyal readers from the bottom of my heart for giving my blog the much needed traffic and for all your wonderful comments. Creating this blog wasn't at all easy for an IT retard like me. I had spent many sleepless nights reading and trying to comprehend computer codes, IT jargons, etc (which seemed so alien to me) to get my blog started. I must also thank some of my friends for helping me make my blog a reality. I had always wanted to create my own blog but did not know where to begin. Even the smallest of effort like giving me the support and encouragement I needed when my blog was still new and unheard of to helping me with other more complicated stuff ..... theimperfectmom, montessorimum, chin nee, mamabok (did I leave any names out??) ..... thank you very much for your help, advice, support and comments.

Blogging Frenzy Days Are Over

Offers from advertisers are pathetically scarce for PR0 blogs lately but I'm too busy to grief over it. In fact, I find that it's a blessing in disguise. I'm just too busy training my new temp Cambodian maid. Though she's hardworking, she's really slow. I have to do some of the house work myself like boiling water, washing bottles, bathing the kids, feeding Sherilyn (which is the most time-consuming as this brat doesn't like to eat and just stores the food in her mouth for hours), etc. Sherilyn still does not want the new maid to feed her or bathe her. I'm having a bad backache now from all the back-breaking tasks of bathing 2 hyperactive kids who won't stay still before, during and after their baths. Plus, I find it hard and painful to squat down now as my belly is getting bigger.

Now that Alycia has gone back to pre-school, I have to coach her in her homework everyday, besides reading to her and Sherilyn. I am really tempted to create another blog in my own domain and let this new blog be free of 3P posts in the hope of earning a good PR but with my 3rd baby arriving soon, I really doubt I will have the time to do that. I guess I will have to put this plan in the back-burner and wait till the end of this year.

Not Much Mood To Blog

Woke up this morning feeling really sleepy and tired though I had 7 hours of sleep last night. I still have a 6 more outstanding tasks to complete before they expire and I keep getting emails from the advertiser reminding me to complete my assignments. I am just forcing my brain to work, forcing my eyes to open and forcing my hands to move. Feel like doing nothing but just lie down on the couch and sleep or watch TV. Funny though, when I have more than 20 outstanding assignments and offers pouring out to me left, right and center, I don't feel this way. Maybe I am just feeling demotivated that the last few days have been really dry and not getting many offers. It's the holiday season anyway and I just have to wait till the end of next week to get offers again.

Mental Block

I seem to be suffering from a mental block for the last few days. I feel really sleepy, languid and tired and my mind seems to be empty. I must be suffering from an exhaustion and lack of sleep. During my PR4 heydays, though I feel tired, I still managed to push myself to write up to 25 posts a day! My mind was sharp and I had loads of ideas to write but lately, eversince Google smacked down on us, I just have not much mood to blog. Now, I only manage to force myself to write a max of 6 - 7 posts a day. It also takes me ages to come up with ideas to write. Wonder what happened to my zeal.

How Money Motivates

I'm not a techie person and I hate to meddle with gadgets and gizmos but today, I saw a high pay-out opp by this network. It requires a 30-second video. Initially, I had ignored the opp but this opp kept showing up on my screen each time I refreshed the screen. So I decided to give it a shot. First, I rummaged through my drawers to look for my Olympus camera DVD to read the instruction on shooting video as the original set up on my camera was only for a video shoot duration of 15 seconds and I didn't know how to re-set the duration of the video shoot. Next, I began to shoot the video but my 2 rascals kept interrupting me. Sherilyn was screaming and crying away and Alycia was tugging at me. I did the shoot more than 10 times. Hopefully my video and the post gets approved by this network.

Do You Get Pissed Off With The Ads?

I've been writing a lot of ads in my blog lately. Frankly, do you get pissed off with them? I really hope having these paid posts in my blog will not stop you from coming to my blog again. I'm trying my best to balance the number of personal posts in my blog too.

To all my loyal readers who never fail to take the time and trouble to put in your valued comments in my blog, I'd like to say a very big thank you for your support. It's really great to see from my blog statistics that I still have between 300-400+ visitors to both my blogs daily. I know there are many stalkers and lurkers out there who read my blog frequently but never leave any comments. I want to thank you too for coming to my blog time and again. If it's not for all of you, I would not have scored quite a good Alexa ranking and Technorati score.

1007th Post

Yes, you read me right. This is my 1,007th post and my blog is only half a year old. I can't believe I've written so much crap in my blog. I hope my loyal readers won't get bored with my crap and rantings and especially the sponsored posts. I must thank you all for giving me the much needed support for my blog. Though my Google PR is still 0, but my Technorati authority and Alexa ranking are pretty good. Just don't know how Google ranks sites. Most bloggers have had their rankings demoted recently.

Outstanding Assignments Cleared

I've finally completed all my outstanding assignments and only left with 1 that I had received yesterday. It's a feeling of relief yet itching for more assignments. Have not been receiving many offers for the last few days. It's funny that when I am bogged down with many assignments, I feel the stress but when I don't have any, I feel upset and itching to have some. Humans are just never satisfied with what they have! Well, at least today I can start writing more personal posts and spend some time reading to the girls.

New Blog Site Stats

Looking at the site stats of my new blog available from the host, I am surprised to see that I have an average of 1,681 hits a day, sometimes the figure reaches 3,700. But what confuses me is the stats also show number of visitors which have a different figure. These are the stats shown for yesterday :

Date : 10 Oct 2007
No. of visitors : 164 (the figure here is low as I still have 200+ visitors to my old blog)
No. of pages :367
Hits : 1879

Does anyone know how to interpret it, i.e. what's the difference between no. of visitors and no. of hits? What are pages too - is it the number of pages that the visitors had viewed from my blog?

Also, I am surprised to see from the stats that most of my visitors are from Australia (8,444 hits), USA (8,678 hits), Netherlands, Japan, HK and other countries abroad. It surprises me more that hits from Malaysia only stand at 500+. These blogging stats are really mind boggling!