Well, for those of you that are not on my Facebook, I finally sold my house. I started short selling it last February after 7 months past the time my older sister was to move out of my place so that I could rent it. Needless to say the house is finally sold and the animosity between us has grown even more intense. I’m just trying to move on and doing my best not to blame her even though its easy to do. That house was the last and final tie I had to my ex from a financial point of view. I am glad its over and I no longer have to deal with it.

I have been dating an amazing man about 5 weeks now. Well, I shouldn’t just say dating because he is my boyfriend now. Anyhow, you get the idea. He’s fabulous and he makes me incredibly happy. He’s been really supportive with all this house selling drama and he even came to support me during a time when there was going to be some awkwardness between my ex and his new wife. So, I figure if he can handle all this semi-drama now, he’s a keeper!

Now onto my business. I had a really fantastic earning month for September. I earned $1700 combined between adsense and my google affiliate network sales. What sucks was seeing my earnings drop to nearly half after the latest October 13th Panda change. It sucks to be seeing $28-35 a day and suddenly be back to earning $10-12 a day again. The good news is my sites only slipped a few spots so I definitely see them springing back from this. It’s definitely nothing like the mayday update but still, I’m feeling the hit on my income bigtime. It’s even to the point where I am even questioning why am I still doing this when my income is never set and steady. I never can just walk away thinking that these changes will never happen and that my income is always going to be solid. I seriously started toying with the idea of getting a *gasp* job! It’s not something I wanna do. I don’t want to have to give up my dreams of my online business because I love what I do. I love that I make my own hours, that I don’t have a boss and that I can work as much or as little as I want. I am not sure I am ready to give all that up and go back to the world of being owned by somebody else. But it’s hard. This business is hard. No one ever said it was going to be easy. You constantly have to be putting time and energy into your sites to earn money…plain and simple. I think we are finally seeing how for the most part, long gone are the days of setting up a site, tossing a few back links at it and then forgetting it and it starts magically earning by itself. Our sites (my sites) are always going to need to be worked on. It’s just the way it is.