Thursday, March 8, 2012

Ad NONsense

When I began this blog several months ago I was completely new to the seen.  I had never blogged, I wasn't completely sure just exactly what blogging was, although I had read one blog from an old grade school friend.

As I worked my way through the process of setting up the blog and understanding its workings and intricacies I found it made quite a bit of sense.  I was up and blogging in no time.

Then I learned of what I now (not so affectionately) call, NONsense.  The Blogger.com powers that be have created a way for us bloggers to make a buck and they call it AdSense.  Allow ads to appear on your blog and when people click through the blogger makes a penny here and there.  I was a sucker.  I wanted that penny.

Here is the nonsense.  The Ad-sense program selects frequent "topical" words appearing in the blog to post what they deem "appropriate" target ads.  Sounds good so far, right?  If the ads are to target MY readers, My readers wanting to go GRAY, why is it that 90% of the ad appearing in the blog are to COVER, DYE and ELIMINATE GRAY?

This isn't AdSense....its pure NONsense.

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

I am overwhelmed.
Completely and utterly overwhelmed.

Recently I joined a "going gray" chat and it was glorious, in the beginning.  I loved each and every woman.  I loved each and every story.  I connected with these lovely women.  I related to these women.  They were my soul sisters.

None of my feelings towards them have changed.  They are still my soul sisters and I still love their stories, their journeys.  But here is what I have realized about me...as much as I care for these ladies, I care for me and my family more.

I no longer have time to keep up with the 1000 plus ladies.  I love them and I wish them well and, of course, an easy journey.  But I must focus on my own family, my own friends.

I hope these ladies allow me to check in periodically but for now, this is my only outlet.