Footprints on the Moon

My friend Marcus is doing a new series at his blog, 101 Steps to Better Blogging. I’m playing along with him, and seeing as he’s on step two now, I’m a little behind the times. Basically he’s following Lifehack’s 101 Steps to Becoming a Better Blogger article, and creating it into a series, so we can all follow along.
To begin, we needed to get the current stats for our blog. Here are the stats for Footprints on the Moon, from popuri.us, as of this afternoon.

Step one was to have a WordPress blog, and to add all the pinging sites. I have a couple already, but as soon as I post this, I’m going to go do the rest. Step two was running your feed through Feedburner. As you can see by the little button in my sidebar, I did this today. Since it is brand new, my button says 0, and that’s sad…

I’m going to keep playing along with Marcus though, so I’ll keep you posted here on the progress, and how it affects my stats!

I am trying to figure out how to take care of baby fishies… my dad’s had pregnant fish in the past, so I’m sure it’s only a matter of time before he ends up with another one. We knew that we’d have to rescue the babies after they were born so they wouldn’t get eaten, but we didn’t have one of those transfer tanks for that express purpose, so we thought we’d just take the mama fish out and put her in a smaller tank by herself until the babies were born. Yeah… the mama fish died Pretty quickly, too… still trying to figure out what happened there. So I want to know what to do next time because I don’t want to continue being the baby fish killer.

Today is payday, and after spending a few minutes with my bank account and my check book, I’m left wondering “Where the heck is all the money?!” I need some fixed asset accounting software or something to track it! I actually know where the money went, but that’s not the point. The point is that the money I *do* have is not going far enough… Last weekend I spent ALOT of money, most (not all) of it non-optional. There were clothes for work, which were necessary. There were wedding related expenses that I’m counting in the non-optional category because I wasn’t missing that for the world. There were groceries… cause the food situation was at a point where the night before grocery shopping my dinner was a lunchable, a handful of peanuts and some twizzlers. Yeah, food money was necessary. lol

The whole point of this?? Why the heck does *living* cost so much money?

You know, I know we’re fatter these days than ever before, but still… my friend Erica recently moved into a different house, and her new house has the tiniest hallway I’ve ever seen! To get from the living room to her bedroom, you have to pass through this tiny little hallway, and no joke, with me standing there with my arms at my sides, my arms touch the walls on both sides. Maybe I’m missing something, but I don’t think I should feel like I need Hoodia to fit through a doorway! I fit just fine, but it makes me feel a touch claustrophobic. What I’m still trying to figure out is how they got their furniture into the room.