Happy New Year 2008

2007 Gone and Welcome 2008. I could not believe that the year has gone by so fast. And A brand New Year is ahead of us.Nothing major happened last year, we have no Hurricane, nor real cool weather in the South here. Gas was going up, and a little steady the last few months. Economy was not growing and neither was the stock market. But I know Google's stock has gone up to $700 since the last 2 years. I regretted not buying any when it was first listed.
A lot of businesses have been complaining that it was not a good year.Business was not growing . A lot of my friends who are in the restaurant business had been complaining about slow business. Maybe there are too many restaurants now, whether Chinese, Italian, Mexican or American.
It looked like Walmart is having good business because in Columbus ,Georgia here they have been 4 Brand New Super Walmart.
For Myself, 2007 is a peaceful year for me and my family. Nothing major happened, we sold our Hot Wings Restaurant, and I am able to have more time to venture in to other business while my husband got a very good and steady job but he has to travel a lot. This year I started my blog and wokandleisure is my very first blog. Though I did not earn much income from Google Adsense , only a few cents here and there, I was able to look in to many affiliates program and Internet business opportunities,and also learned a lot from ebooks and online communities. I also get to know a lot of online friends and buddies from communities like http://218876.lawnchairmillionaire.com, www.lazzeo.com/lai888, www.adlandpro.com,
directmatches,ojeez and www.mybloglog.com/buzz/members/Laibiz

I have joined a few business opportunities. www.lai888.jerkydirect.com,
www.loftyprofits.com/?user=Lai88,
Lawnchairmillioaire.com and http://ladybug888.3500weekly.hop.clickbank.net
I have only received a few checks of $2.00 from Jerkydirect, but they have some tasty and healthy jerkys. I earned $60 from Loftyprofits but the have to hold till I earn $100 for me to get a check. Others, I hope to see more earning in the New Year ahead. This my resolution , to earn more on the Internet in the year 2008. I know I have a lot to learn and explore.
Family wise, everyone is healthy, my eldest gone to college in Georgia Tech in Atlanta. My youngest hopefully can graduate this year, he is not too enthusiastic in school.Spent too much time playing war craft on the Internet. Hope he can explore and earn online.
I got to learnt a lot from bloggers online. I really admired bloggers like
Johnchow, Shoemoney, Johncow etc. I wondered how people like John Chow can earn so much being a blogger. I loved to read www.johnchow.com, he really gave me a lot of inspirations. His blog is very interesting.
So out the old 2007, and in the New 2008. Hope this is a better year for everyone , whether on the Internet business or Brick and Mortar business. Hope every have success and a great year ahead, not only in the United States but around the world. In Chinese the number 8, represents prosperity.

Home of $25,000 Dessert Back to Business

The home of the famous $25,000 dessert is back is business, after health officials concluded it no longer home to mice and cockroaches.

Serendipity 3, a popular tourist destination on Manhattan's East Side, was allowed to reopen Tuesday, about three weeks after the restaurant was shuttered because of rodent infestation.

The famous sweet shop was closed Nov. 14 after it failed two inspections in a month. Inspectors spotted mouse droppings, fruit flies, house flies and more than 100 live cockroaches.

City Health Department spokeswoman Jessica Scaperotti said the restaurant had failed an inspection on Friday after mouse droppings were spotted. But it passed a followup inspection Monday night.

She said Wednesday that the agency will go back within 30 days for another inspection.

Serendipity's delectable menu items sometimes have patrons standing in line for hours to get inside. Its $25,000 Frrrozen Haute Chocolate — featuring top-grade cocoa, edible gold and shavings of a luxury truffle — was declared the most expensive dessert by Guinness World Records. It also offers a $1,000 sundae named Golden Opulence, requiring 48-hour advance notice

MyBloglog Problogger Contest

My Bloglog has organized a Problogger Contest. Have you register Yet? Still have about a week to go . Get in now.
THE MYBLOGLOG PROBLOGGER CONTEST!

The rules are pretty simple. The community that grows the most, in their gross total, from now to November 30, 2007, will win. You can see the full list of legalese here. The winner will be announced live from the floor of PubCon in Las Vegas by me and Ian. We'll also sprinkle them liberally all over the site.

::Robyn begins Oscar acceptance speech:: I'd like to thank the sponsors, who without their freebies (yes, they all donated these), we could not offer you such cool prizes. Our sponsors:

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Now, get over to the contest and register your blog. You can keep up to date with who is in the lead here at the leaderboard, and you can see your own place, if you are not in the top 100, within the Edit Profile section of your Profile on MyBlogLog. Good luck! We're rooting for you.
Here are the top 100 rankings of the Contestant.

Your Rankings
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251 Daily Fortune Cookies Saying 7
330 999Recipes 5

The Current Top 100
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2 SEOlogs.com: Start Earning Online ($2,000+ MBL Contest) 218
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7 Linkbait Me (Join this community and WIN $100) 120
8 TSP Blog 113
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10 Caroline Middlebrook 98
11 Doodlage: Trashcan Art Salvage 98
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15 Toast & Egg & Me 67
16 Using Math to Win the Lottery (Join this community and WIN $100) 63
17 Digital Inspiration Technology Guide 60
18 FatBoySlimmming 53
19 famouskroegers 52
20 Stephan Miller 50
21 amarylliss' blog 49
22 Leisure Life and Ride 48
23 Andre Benjamim 47
24 Spanish Recipes 46
25 部落格觀察 44
26 Feeling Flirty - Get a Date! 44
27 QforQuack.com // Because a girl can blog too! 44
28 BlogDumpsVideo 44
29 Debo Hobo dot Com 42
30 TiffanyInsurance 42
31 disabilityresourcedirectory.com 41
32 Ad Resources 40
33 Day Job Nuker.Com 40
34 A Blog about Nothing 39
35 Cool Steals and Deals 38
36 Hotel Rosenda Cottages 38
37 Monsters in the Sky 38
38 Sarcasm Abounds 37
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41 Technology for Real Estate 34
42 Blog about your Blog 34
43 The Thinking Blog 34
44 Chuvaness....Chakaness....Eclavu.......... 34
45 Work at Home Mom Revolution 33
46 SizzUp 33
47 Blog Tutorial 32
48 Sinigang 32
49 RompiendoCadena 32
50 Yodel Anecdotal 30
51 Polliwog's Pond 30
52 ShareRevMedia 30
53 Practical Blogging 29
54 Make Money Online (join my community to win $100 + more) 29
55 Predator Press 28
56 A Little of Everything 28
57 The Spirit Knows Best 28
58 Live Radio 28
59 Make Money Online with Etienne Teo 28
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61 A Step Ahead by Paige Rausch 28
62 WordPress Web 2.0 "How-To" Spot-er 27
63 Local Hotties 27
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81 100% batangueno 24
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83 Jason Heath's Double Bass Blog 23
84 India Inc. 23
85 Fresh Geeks 23
86 IT'S A WOMAN'S WORLD 22
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88 GoogleLady 22
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96 Counting Carbs 21
97 Bryan's Views 21
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100 everwas 19
Sites & Blogs in this list may not eligible to win the contest. All results are UNOFFICIAL until the winner is verified by the judges.

Contest is void where prohibited by law. Open to U.S. residents, 16 and older. Official Rules
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My Puppy Chow up The Shoes

Look, My puppy Chow UP The Shoes today!
It's the battle of the Month-The John Chow Vs Shoemoney RSS Competition.
John is offering lots of great prizes for anyone to sign up to his full feed Rss.

The Shoes got Chow Up.
Great Prizes.
Three Domino’s Pizza (value $30) by The Geek Boys
$50 of cold hard cash by Preblogging.com
Two books (The Search and Wikinomics) by Piggy Bank Pie
A free review by CashQuests (value $80)
One hour of free blog consultation (value $60) by Blog Lounder
Two $25 Barnes & Noble gift cards by Shaun Carter
$144 webhosting package from Tribune Hosting
Two text links and a review (value $50) by Online Cash Flow
One 125×125 banner (value $15) by Etienne Teo
Five 1000 directory submission packages (value $550) by SEO Next
The biggest prize of them all: a complete Wordpress blog redesign valued at $750 by Adriann Pienaar of Adii. The winner will get a custom, unique blog design (unlimited revisions by the client). The design will be supplied to the winner as a widget-ready Wordpress theme. You can see some of Adriann’s work here.

How Do I Get My Hands On These Great Prizes?

First, you need to subscribe to John's RSS feed and check it every day for the rest of this month. Then you need to blog about it. Link to his post and/or to the post announcing the RSS competition and link to my RSS feed so your readers can sign up to it. Here’s an example of what I’m looking for.

Help John Chow beat Shoemoney in their RSS competition. John is offering some great prizes for people signing up to his full feed RSS.

After you’ve done that, send John an email with the link to the post. Once confirm the rules have been met, he add you to the draw. Some of the prizes will be given away randomly to RSS readers but you will only know about it if you subscribe to the RSS feed. It will not be posted on the blog.

Subscribe To John RSS By Email

John is adding an option to subscribe to his RSS via email. This is a really cool way to subscribe. Enter your email address into the subscription box below, then confirm the confirmation email. Once you’ve done that, you will receive all John's future post deliver right to your email box! Even if you already subscribed and read my blog with a RSS reader, you will want to give RSS by email a try. It’s really cool.