Paying Post Code was the Virus

Hooray!! Finally!! I was able to figure out what was wrong with my blog site. The Paying Post Code embedded in my HTML script was the culprit! It was the reason for the problems with my site.

Once I found out, I took it out immediately. Now, I just have to make sure that the new code I put in is not "infected" or contains any virus since I still need to have the code in my site because it's a requirement with Paying Post.

Has anyone encountered this situation with their own site before? What did you do? How did you resolve it? I would definitely appreciate some tips or suggestions on how to fix this once and for all.

Annoying Pop Ups - Help!

Lately, I noticed that annoying pop ups have invaded my blog site "Simply Happy Me" and I would like to extend my apologies to all of you who feel the same way as I do about this.

Honestly, I do not know how this came about. I was just surprised when I was going to update my site when two annoying pop ups appeared. I am still quite new when it comes to setting up my site and all so I cannot really figure out where the problem is.

If any of you could help me out on how to fix this nuisance on my site, I would be very grateful. Thank you in advance!

Tongue Twisted

Sometimes there are just days when your mind is much faster than your speech and this leads you to stumbling all over your own words when expressing yourself such as, The alphabetic synthesis passes the constituent behind the assuming ace. This would definitely throw me off my speech track any day and leave my tongue all twisted.

Has this ever happened to you? When does it usually occur? For me, I noticed it happens when my mouth becomes all dry since I have not been drinking much liquid. I guess it really helps to keep ourselves moisturized even for our tongues to avoid situations like these. What do you think?

Domain Names as Prizes

I have always thought what it would be like to have my own domain name. I think that would be really neat! I learned that with your own domain name you have more flexibility to be able to do what you want with your site in terms of customization as well as security. Maybe later on, I will get a chance to have mine.

I think my chances just got higher in owning a domain name - well hopefully. My new blogger friend, Rosa is holding a Mini Blog Contest at her dainty site Pink Precious dot Com. The rules on how to join are quite simple, and there are a lot of prizes from generous sponsors to be given away. Actually, this is my first time to push through with joining a blog contest. Let's hope the first time's a charm. ^^

Here is a quick peek of the prizes to be given away:

Prizes:

1st Prizes: .us domain registered for one year in Name.com from Istarblog.com

1500 ec from babyko.info

1000 ec from express-liife.com

1000 ec from mommawannabe.com

1 month advertising from pink-precious.com pr2

1 month advertising from Istarblog.com pr2

custom blog layout from pink-precious.com (blogger platform only)

2nd Prizes: .info domain registered for one year in Name.com from pink-precious.com

1000 ec from express-liife.com

1000 ec from hicachika.divafabulosa.com

1000 ec from ivfjournies.com

1 month advertising from pink-precious.com pr2

1 month advertising from Istarblog.com pr2

custom blog layout from pink-precious.com (blogger platform only)

3rd Prizes: .info domain registered for one year in Name.com from babyko.info

1000 ec from thepinayblogger.com

1000 ec from divafabulosa.com

1000 ec from misterpix.com

1 month advertising from pink-precious.com pr2

4th Prizes: .info domain registered for one year in Name.com from Express-liife.com

1000 ec from pinayjade.com

1 month link advertising from pink-precious.com pr2

1 month text link advertising from Istarblog.com pr2

Why don't you go ahead and try your luck and join Rosa's Mini Blog Contest now? Who knows you just might get lucky...

Earning in Blogging

Since early last year, I have decided to become a WAHM (Work At Home Mom) by choice. Somewhere along the way, I had a change in priorities. I decided to focus my time and energy more on taking care of my unica hija, Roberta, instead of trying to earn extra income outside the home. I said to myself that an opportunity would show itself. I will be able to find money even while I was at home. And it did.

Being at home, gave me more time than I had when I was out of the house the whole day. With so much time in my hands, I wanted to go back to one of the things I enjoyed most - writing. I thought of having my own blog as my writing channel. Little did I know that I could actually get paid to blog.

How to earn extra money by blogging was better explained to me by Tita Marie. We were just casually having a conversation during my high school volleyball reunion. When she found out that I was at home working, that is when she shared her own blogging experience. I was surprised to know that she had been doing this for quite some time and was at a profit. I was inspired and motivated to follow suit.

I researched and learned that the world wide web was a bigger market for advertisers than what traditional media - such as print, radio and television - could offer. With this concept, the marketing idea of blog advertising was born.

Advertisers would join a blog advertising company such as Paying Post to find potential blogs suited to post their ads. The followers of that blog would then be the target market and possible consumers of the said product. The more ads in a blog that gave positive results to an advertiser, the more income that blog would make. This was how income was made from blogging.

With this knowledge at hand, it would just be a bonus for me if I could earn something extra from doing what I like and that is writing.

Aloha Friday #3

Yeah! It's Friday again! Welcome to my 3rd edition of Aloha Friday!

In Hawaii, Aloha Friday is the day that to take it easy and look forward to the weekend. So I thought that on Fridays I would take it easy on posting, too.

Come and join me in Aloha Friday! It's easy to play along.

I ask a simple question and you give a simple answer! Nothing that requires a lenghty response.

After you answer my question & leave your link below, post a question on your own blog and leave your link over at An Island Life. Don’t forget to visit the other participants! This is a great way to make new friends here in blogosphere!

My question for this week is:

How many hours a day do you spend online?

I spend nearly practically the whole day since I teach online from Monday to Friday. Not to mention the blog visits, updates, surfing etc.

A Thousand Words Thursday #3 - Caught in the Act

2003: Roberta caught in the act of playing with the cotton buds from the cotton bud holder while seated in bed right beside her sleeping Dada.
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Come and join me in A Thousand Words Thursday!

Read, leave a comment & your link below, post a memorable picture on your own blog and leave your link at Cheaper Than Therapy. Don’t forget to visit the other participants!

Want to know how this all started? Read more at The Story Behind A Thousand Words Thursday.

Back in the Swing

It's so great to be back in the swing of things!! Boy, did I miss this especially all of you...

The past few days have been crazy hectic for me. Whew!!

As you all now, I was nursing a sore throat and was trying to get as much rest as I can so that I can have my voice back. Not to mention juggling so many other things at the same time - taking care of my daughter who was on and off with her feeling well and not, attending to hubby and his needs, keeping an eye over my senior citizen aunt who's blood pressure has been shooting up lately, feeding my crazy dogs, house chores, and work from noon til midnight!

Waaa! That was a handful wasn't it?

Anyhow, I am off to visit some bloggy friends' sites and other duties. Yipee!!

I never thought that being away for just a few days seemed like eternity. It's like something was missing. Drama right? Hehe. Well, you know what I mean.

I am sure that's how you feel too when you are gone for a few days. It's like something is missing in your day right?

Is that how you feel too?

A Thousand Words Thursday #2 - First Fastfood

2003: My baby's first taste of fastfood...well not exactly. She was watching her Mama and Dada eating and was wondering when it was going to be her turn...and decided to feed herself.
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Come and join me in A Thousand Words Thursday!

Read, leave a comment & your link below, post a memorable picture on your own blog and leave your link at Cheaper Than Therapy. Don’t forget to visit the other participants!

Want to know how this all started? Read more at The Story Behind A Thousand Words Thursday.

Pink Is In - Part 2

Thank you Jet for this lovely tag! I am honored to be receiving it again.

I posted this tag earlier this month. I hope it's okay if I refer to my previous post for the facts about me since that is still a little "fresh". Please check out: Pink Is In and learn ten random things about me.

This tag is up for grabs to all of my lovely friends here in blogosphere - that means YOU!

If you would like to grab this tag, please let me know because I would love to learn ten random facts about you too.

Aloha Friday #2

Yeah! It's Friday again! Welcome to my 2nd edition of Aloha Friday!

In Hawaii, Aloha Friday is the day that to take it easy and look forward to the weekend. So I thought that on Fridays I would take it easy on posting, too.

Come and join me in Aloha Friday! It's easy to play along.

I ask a simple question and you give a simple answer! Nothing that requires a lenghty response.

After you answer my question & leave your link below, post a question on your own blog and leave your link over at An Island Life. Don’t forget to visit the other participants! This is a great way to make new friends here in blogosphere!

My question for this week is:

What is the one dish that you make that your family just loves?

Noodle-less Eggplant Lasagna. My husband and daughter just adore it! =)

A Thousand Words Thursday #1 - Watching Behind Bars

2003: My baby trying to watch her favorite Sesame Street show while sitting inside her crib.
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This is a great way to see memorable and meaningful photos of your blogger friends and meet new ones.

Come and join me in A Thousand Words Thursday!

Read, leave a comment & your link below, post a memorable picture on your own blog and leave your link at Cheaper Than Therapy. Don’t forget to visit the other participants!

Want to know how this all started? Read more at The Story Behind A Thousand Words Thursday.

Wordless Wednesdays #1 - Sidewalk Chalk Art

(Or maybe not so wordless after all...hehe)

I saw these at Veronica Lee's site and I just wanted to share them with you coz I am still amazed by them even if I have seen it several times already. Thank you for these wonderful pics!

These are 3D chalk drawings by Julian Beever. Don't they look so real?

For more Wordless Wednesday participants, check out MomDot.com

Guest-blogger for Bean Inspired

Just before the weekend, Sarah got in touch with me and asked if I would like to be a guest writer for her Are You My WAHMother portion on her blog. This is a part in her blog where she would be posting the stories of different WAHMs - why they decided to work at home, how they did it and maybe some tips or word of advice for aspiring WAHMs.

I have only been a WAHM for a little over five months so I did not feel as if I was "qualified" to be sharing my story. Being the nice person that I am (or so I would like to think), I graciously accepted the invitation. I was both honored but more of scared because I was not sure if I was going to do justice with what I was going to write.

But, I still did it. I shared my story and thoughts of being a WAHM.

If you would like to know how I got started on home based online English teaching and more, please read Simply Happy Me on Bean Inspired's site. Maybe next time, you can write and share your story.

Aloha Friday #1

Welcome to my very first edition of Aloha Friday!

(I got this idea from my new mommy blogger friend, Dee. I think it is a wonderful way to relax on a Friday after such a long and busy week and get to know other bloggers. I know it's Saturday on our end now but it's still Friday on the other part of the world. hehe. But I will definitely do this every Friday and I do hope you can play along with me.)

In Hawaii, Aloha Friday is the day that we take it easy and look forward to the weekend. So I thought that on Fridays I would take it easy on posting, too.It's easy to play along.

I ask a simple question and you give a simple answer! Nothing that requires a lenghty response.

After you answer my question & leave your link below, post a question on your own blog and leave your link over at An Island Life. Don’t forget to visit the other participants! It’s a great way to make new bloggy friends!

My question is:

What are your plans with your significant other this Valentine's Day?

No special plans for me and my hubby this Valentine's Day since he has work. We will just celebrate on our wedding anniversary. That's the real Valentine's Day for us.

Two-in-One: Passionate Blogger and Love Ya Awards

Thank you Gengen for these two awards, Passionate Blogger and Love Ya Award! I am honored and happy to receive them from my new friend in blogosphere. =)

PASSIONATE BLOGGER AWARD

The rules :
1. Put the logo in your blog.
2. Write five things you are passionate about apart from blogging.
3. Tag 5 people on your lists and let them know you tagged them.

I am passionate about...
1. ...my family, Roberta and Dada Vince. They complete me.
2. ...food!! I just love everything (except for exotic ones) and like to try new treats!
3. ...volleyball, my favorite sport in the world! I will drop whatever I have scheduled for the day just to play! Okay, I may be exaggerating a little bit :P
4. ...my music. I would rather have a radio/MP3 player any day than watch tv. As they, "Music calms the senses." And, "Music soothes the savage beasts!"
5. ...making things happen. "Dreams become reality when put into action."

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Love Ya Award


These kind bloggers aim to find and be friends. They are not interested in self-aggrandizement. Our hope is that when the ribbons of these prizes are cut, even more friendships are propagated. Please give more attention to these writers!

Rule: Deliver this award to eight bloggers who can choose eight more and include this text into the body of their award.

I would like my friends here in blogosphere to accept these two awards: Sarah, Beauty Marie, HipnCoolMomma, Ghee, VhingF, Rose, Imelda, Jet, Bingkee, Eds, Dee, TidyMom, and Blogomama,

Moms meet Moms

I did not realize that there were so many mom bloggers and so many communities just dedicated or run by other mom bloggers in blogosphere.

I stumbled on one by chance while I was on Twitter: MomBloggersClub. It's a great place to network with other moms, share ideas, learn from each other or just simply make new friends.

It would be great to hang out with you in MBC. Why don't you come and join me?! I think that's a great idea! See ya!

Follow Me on Twitter

My friend, Sarah Bean, was the one who told me to join Twitter last month so that we can get in touch with each other more. We have known each other since we were fifth grade and lost communication until now.

Thanks to the wonders of the internet and social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter keeping in touch with friends and relatives even if they're thousands of miles away from you is very easy to do.

Going back to Twitter, I thought that it was just another messaging site or tool like Yahoo Messenger but I was wrong. Aside from being a communication tool, Twitter has plenty of benefits to bloggers like you and me.

Personally, I noticed that this is how I am able to ulitlize my Twitter:

1. make new friends in the blogosphere
2. network with other bloggers especially mommy bloggers
   
3. develop the quality of my blog by learning from fellow bloggers
4. gain new readers
   
5. improve my personal profile
   
6. drive new traffic or visitors to my site
   
7. be aware and updated of new posts from Twitter people I follow

Here is an article I read from a fellow Twitter, problogger about the 9 Benefits of Twitters to Bloggers.

To know my Twitter Updates, I have a widget installed on my left sidebar that lets you know what is going on with me on Twitter. Or better yet, why don't you join Twitter and follow me! =)

Scroll Down Box

I am stumped here. I have been trying to figure out how to put a scroll down box on my site for the past hour. I can't seem to do it. =(

I noticed that my lists are slowly getting long and I was thinking of minimizing space on my site by putting this. I have been searching on Google but can't seem to find any useful information on how to do it.

This is a site I found that gave the most useful information on what I need: Make Scroll Box on Blogger. The instructions are just incomplete because it does not say where to exactly put the HTML code that was provided. I have tried inserting it several times but keep getting an error.

If there is anyone who can help me out with this, I would be so grateful!! Thank you, thank you in advance!!!

Pink is In

Bingkee gave me this award a week ago (sorry for the late post). Beauty Marie gave it to me this week. Thank you so much both of you! I am very flattered and honored to receive it.

I did not think I would get an award like this so soon since as you all can see, I have been constantly trying to finalize the look of my site. But, I'm happy that you two appreciate it and thought my blog looked Cute and Creative, or maybe you thought I was cute and creative?!? Just kidding!!

Anyways, here are the conditions of this lovely award:

1. Each blogger must post these rules.
2. Each blogger starts with ten random facts/habits about themselves. (Be spontaneous if you can.)
3. Bloggers that are tagged need to write ten facts about themselves. Pass on this tag to ten bloggers.

Here's some random facts about me:

1) I love the color red and any shade of/from it. (Now that explains the color of my blog! haha)

2) I am very sporty and just love playing volleyball.

3) I actually like to learn "techie" stuff though I am still in denial that I am techie.

4) I love upbeat music that you can groove or dance to. (Check out the miniPod at the bottom right of my page.)

5) I am married to a loving & caring husband.

6) I love to eat and food is my passion. (Watch out for the launch of my new blog about what else..hehe)

7) I love dogs and own a PomSpitz named Cleo (short for Cleopatra) and a Rottweiler named Akyra.

8) I love to travel when ever I got time and can.

9) I'm a practical shopper. (Well, that's what I like to think..hehe)

10) I am a Fire Dragon according to Feng Shui.

I would like to pass on this Cute Blogger Award to: Sarah Bean, Ghee, Rose, Fhaye, Jesse, Chie, Ria, Shy, Mommy in Pink and Lady Java.

P.S. Or maybe that's why I got this award was because it matched my site...Hmmm... =)