PAULA NEAL MOONEY

Trying to look thinner... There I am, taking a weight-loss progress selfie in the hallway mirror to find my skinniest looking pose. The last time I wrote about my weight on this blog I confessed that I had hit 180 pounds , even though the gym's scale said 183 pounds back then. I thought 180 was a nice round number -- and it was lower than the gym's scale because it was my so-called flush weight, what I weighed first thing in the morning -- my thinnest poop-everything-out weight. Anyway, today I'm grateful to God that the scale is going down in a good way and my weight read 175.8 pounds this Friday, on my weigh-in day, which is nearly 5 pounds less than that 180-pound point that I knew had to be my turn around. What changed?  Well, the last time I wrote about my love of Robek's green smoothies and I have still been doing plenty of those kale and spinach combined with fruit and protein smoothies that I absolutely love. (My kids like them, too.) And I...

I've got that "Bad Girl Ri Ri" song lyric kind of stuck in my head, whilst I feel like I'm doing 10 things at once. But I love to give myself link love and inform anyone who's reading of the latest business ventures I'm undertaking, so here goes: #1 - I just published a book letting people know how I made more than $7,000 in 6 months by finding paying freelance writing clients on Elance . #2 - I wrote a long blog post about an impressive kid who has published 70 Kindle books that made him $7,247 in one month in December 2013. #3 - Still writing for the jobs I like on Elance, the ones who appreciate my writing skills and public platform. #4 - Considering selling a website -- my first go at using Flippa to sell a successful website . Part of me is thinking of dropping the price for the sale. The other part of me is perfectly fine with holding onto the website, since it brings in around $300 per month easily, and I hardly have to touch it. Okay, I th...

Okay, the duck face selfie is out, but apparently not in my book -- or on my blog, more rightly. I just wrote a blog post about making around $30,000 in 2013 from writing online , that hopefully makes some semblance of sense. Or a whole more than that. It's a new year and I'm focusing on the writing that intrigues me and helps me and helps you, so there's a gem if you follow all those links. That's what I've learned it's all about: the links, from major trustworthy websites with lots of "domain authority" and "page authority." Ay yi yi…this SEO world is every-changing but quite interesting nonetheless. Time to pass out and hit it again tomorrow. Always more to write...