"Like being the last living cell in a dead body"

Day53
John put a statcounter on my blog now. It seems every single day I learn something that I wish I had been doing from day one!
I worked on press releases for the “no breeding” section. Besides Spay Day on Feb. 28th I found out that February is Spay and Neuter month for thousands of Humane Societies around the world. So I’m trying to play that up.
I got two nice email responses from two places I sent my “no breeding” email to. It’s always nice to get positive feedback.It was almost 70 degrees out today and I had to get out in the yard. After nearly two months of this it is wearing. Sometimes I am at the computer for hours and hours and the line from the old Dick Van Dyke TV show comes to mind, where he says in a dream, “It’s like being the last living cell in a dead body!”

Now we're having fun!

Day44
Oh, my goodness!! Last night within an hour of: posting my new kid’s clothes on the Boston Craigslist, sending all the classifieds and joining two new My Space groups (greatest abs on My Space – I sent them the link to no body fat) and (vegetable mafia – I sent them the no meat) I had 107 page loads and 50 unique hits!! I didn’t want to go to bed, just stay up and keep hitting the refresh button!!

Today I added a “no cancer” section. Sent more links to new My Space groups and watched my statcounter grow!

An aside note – I have just learned to add my blog to feeds! So basically I have been writing to myself for the past 43 days! Well, I had registered it with a few blog searches, but I certainly didn’t know how many there are and that you need to “ping” them when you add a new post! (I actually had no idea what ping was – except maybe half of a game!) I noticed in some of the feeds though, if you just read my blog on their site, you only get the past few days. SO, I am adding my blog address for those who would like to start in the beginning – 43 days ago. http://onlinestoregivitup.blogspot.com/

Checking out my statcounter

Day28
Starting to see people from Canada, England and Singapore on my statcounter. I wish I understood better how to see what brought them there. I’m thinking it’s the free classifieds. Because I did send those to Canada and England this last time. Though not Singapore. It always interests me what page they come in on. Lately there have been several that went right to “no fear”. One of those came from the Senate at Arms in DC!

givitup gets a statcounter

Day6
Read about statcounters and John spent an evening installing one for me.
Sent press releases to Prweb and MPR, both I found published later on line.
Sent in my “no alcohol” ideas to AA and some other sites. No word back.

Day7
Looked at my stat counter and saw that someone at Polo Ralph Lauren had looked at my site! Must have been a guy, he was on the “no video games” and “no road rage” pages. It was kind of neat picturing him sitting in his office at 3:47pm in Manhattan looking at my site! So far he hasn’t come back…or bought.Read about affiliates and picked out sites and sections…and John spent an evening putting their buttons on for me.