Weekly Recap
This week was sort of a wash on the affiliate front, despite getting off to a good start last weekend. My wife came down with a bad stomach virus late last Saturday, and she ended up spending about 36 hours in the hospital, mostly getting rehydrated. When she was finally on the mend, our pet rat (we don’t have kids so the little sucker is essentially our surrogate child) developed a bad abcess, which the vet treated, but the infection spread.
Wife is fine and completely back up to speed but it’s touch and go with Sherman, unofficial holder of the title of World’s Coolest Rat. He’s a tough little guy so we’re keeping our fingers crossed that he can fight off the infection, with the help of antibiotics, and so far he’s holding up pretty well. He’s worrying me because his appetite is off, but he’s also normally a huge pig, and decereased appetite isn’t that unusual with the antiobiotics he’s on.
On top of all of that, the home inspection on the potential investment property was last week, in addition to meeting with mortgage lenders to hammer out loan details. All of which was dumped on top of my day job, which involves a 30 mile commute, which gets a bit difficult when shuttling sickos to and from the hospital and vet.
So yeah, not much progress on the affiliate front. Can’t really say it bothers me all that much, as there are definitely more important things in life than whether or not cranked out 172 pages of affiliate content last week. If anything, maybe that’s the best lesson I could babble on about here. I tend to get locked down into my routines, constantly chasing dollars and concocting new schemes, trying to balance all of that and still be a good husband and rat-dad, but reality checks are nice, as far as what’s really important.
Don’t get lost when chasing money around. Extra money is nice, especially if it’s part of a larger plan to buy you the space and time to live life to the fullest, but you likely don’t have to look very far, each and every day, to find much more valuable things that you shouldn’t be ignoring, for any amount of money.
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