Down On Our Luck

Posted on Sunday, 7th June 2009 by Bcarter

I can’t believe it has been over 9 months since I’ve posted on this blog, but I guess it has been. I kind of went through a streak of being down on myself and such. I ended up with a kind of anxiety when it comes to writing, instead of writing for myself, I was writing for others and that just can’t be anymore. Q and I have had our ups and downs throughout this time, but as far as controlling his gambling addiction is concerned things have been more up than down.

Q went almost 7 months before slipping a couple of times last month, but the slips weren’t major and he knows what he needs to do to keep from slipping again. I guess this was another reason why I stopped posting, I felt secure with how he was doing. Letting my guard down does need to be done in order for Q to feel like he is earning my trust back, but I only need to show that, not necessarily think it in the back of my head.

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Posted on Tuesday, 2nd September 2008 by Bcarter

I’m sure other bloggers have been effected by this, but there seems to be a huge amount of spam going around these days. I haven’t heard of any knew comment software coming out recently, but all of these spam comments have the same format, a bunch of links in a list. Of course, spam is the reason that I always manually approve all comments carefully.

I should say, almost always approve all comments carefully. Today, I was racing through 28 comments to be approved and a legitimate comment from Romelo I-tong slipped through. Hopefully, this post will make up for my mistake.

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Posted on Saturday, 30th August 2008 by Bcarter

Have you ever wished that you could use Google, Yahoo, and MSN all from the same place? I discovered a search engine this morning where you can search the big 3 all in one place. The search engine is called Scour. At first when I read about Scour, I immediately thought of the old time “get paid to search” sites that popped up shortly after Google introduced Adwords, but Scour is not the same. It has a professional look and you do not get paid by clicking on ads, which was the way things worked in the old days.

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Tags: free money online, get paid to search, Scour.com
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Posted on Wednesday, 27th August 2008 by Bcarter

Thanks Josh from Unconventional Marketing for submitting the first question for my Wednesday Q&A session. Josh’s question was the following: “Being the significant other of someone with a gambling addition what have you found is the best help for copping with his (or anyone else) addiction?”

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Tags: coping gambling addiction, gambling addiction
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Posted on Monday, 25th August 2008 by Bcarter

I subscribe to Entrepreneur and Inc Magaziines. Entrepreneur was read every month when it came in, cover to cover for the first year I subscribed to it. For the past year all of these magazines have all been piling up next to my desk, unread and unopened. Why do I still subscribe? To stimulate my brain for ideas, to relax, and motivate myself. Obviously, if these magazines have been piling up next to my desk I they really haven’t been serving their purpose.

So Sunday, instead of sitting in front of the computer all day I decided to read through the Inc 500 issue that I received in the mail not too long ago. I received this subscription free from e-rewards with points that I had earned taking surveys. I don’t remember how many rewards this subscription was, but it only cost me a little time. Seeing all of these fairly young companies making it always great motivation for me; if these people can do it, then I can do it, everyone has to start somewhere.

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Tags: motivation, online business, personal
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Posted on Sunday, 24th August 2008 by Bcarter

I couldn’t resist joining John Cow’s Storestacker Giveaway; I hope you don’t think that I’m whoring my blog out with my Sunday contest posts, but a girl’s got to do what a girl’s got to do. The Storestacker tool looks like a killer tool that I’d love to get my hands on and winning it in a contest would be a lot easier on my pocketbook.

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Posted on Saturday, 23rd August 2008 by Bcarter

I have a favorites page set up with the sites that I use to make money online. I do not like sites where I feel like I’m being sold to, so you won’t see anything high pressure here; in fact most of them right now are the usual suspects. Besides eBay, all of the sites listed don’t cost any money to earn money.

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