Hi Florence,
It is a very long story and almost unbelievable. I hadn't meant to fall off the face of the earth but between taking on a very demanding job, health problems and then unbelievable internet connection problems for a month and THEN forgetting my passwords and not being able to receive e-mail reminders - I was working 7 day weeks and when I had time to catch up, had no service because MY ISP has a toll free number that tells you if you call on the weekend, "Oh, well, too bad, you'll have to wait until Monday." I ended up having to stay home for them THREE TIMES during one month of very little service and lost an entire day of work.
Everything was pointing to that maybe I wasn't meant to be at Bellaonline anymore. It was too much work to run the site the way I wanted to, I am on the road for at least 3 hours each day, we didn't even have computers at work - then we got them and they burned up when we moved so we were without again for 2 weeks - see, I told ya it's unbelievable, but it's true. No medical insurance, and my heart was acting up bigtime as well as my back. Michelle called and I couldn't even afford to talk to her because despite all this work, I am having severe financial problems - my new used car had a very expensive electrical stroke after I owned it for six weeks and I had to take out loans to get the repairs done - because I can barely afford my cell phone bill. With all the driving that my job requires, almost half my pay goes into the gas tank and we're not reimbursed until the next paycheck, so it's just a revolving cycle of stress.
The good thing is that now my little local company has service on weekends thanks to my very vocal complaints, but it didn't do me any good at the time.
You're doing a great job, and you should start getting a lot of hits. Things have finally stabilized a bit, and I've started blogging about dreams at MySpace. I'm writing new articles and updating some of the ones I'd previously written and linking to your site in most of them. It's been getting a great response, my blog is usually in the top 100 most popular. I only started this about 2 weeks ago. It's not nearly as much work as Bellaonline was and although I wish I hadn't had to give it up, this is working better for me.
Because of Joe constantly being in the hospital, I usually wrote them directly into the site and didn't even keep copies. I'm in the middle of copying and pasting the ones that were mine - which are the majority, lol. I've found at least one that you re-wrote and that's fine, it's the one on pregnancy and birth. You probably know that some were Lisa's. We agreed they should stay but the site changed the author names. I can tell whose are whose because we have completely different styles of writing.
Anyway - I think Lisa knows without my saying that she has my permission and blessing to keep all of my articles as long as necessary or desired. I'll try to write her soon as well but I know how much e-mail she gets. Feel free to pass this on and/or post it in the forum. I may have to re-register to get in there!
I've been wanting to get in touch for a few weeks now but to be honest, am just too embarassed about not doing it sooner.
Blessings,
Parthena
