AJ is Always Juggling

Christmas came early for my lens: Twelve Ways to Have a Green & Ethical Christmas. On 01st December I did what I always do every morning when I wake Sparky up for school. I fired up the PC and logged on, then left it as it takes around five minutes to get going because of the Virus and Spyware protection that runs at start up. Then when I came back upstairs to wake Lizzie, I logged on to my emails. I was puzzled – there was a comment saying “Congrats on Lens of the Day”. I thought it must have taken that person a while to get around to visiting: Auditory Processing Disorder, which was LOTD in September, but it was nice to get the comment. Then I looked at an email from my Squidfriend Debnet, who said something like: “you did it again!”

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat????????

Oh my gosh, Twelve Ways to Have a Green and Ethical Christmas had made LOTD – unbelievable, but there it was in the bottom left hand corner of my Dashboard! Then when the LOTD blog was updated, there was a post from Kimberly, saying she was “Guesting” and choosing some LOTDs.

As a result of the extra traffic the lens is currently Number 1 in “Green” and I feel very honoured.

Last week was also a traffic milestone as visits to my 20 lenses broke the 900 barrier for the first time. My stats are looking good today as well:

Top 2000 = 4
Top 10,000 = 10
Top 20,000 = 2
Top 40,000 = 4

I am finding it a struggle to maintain my lenses though as I have started my new job and I am rehearsing two evenings a week. I am determined NOT to say any more about the job at the moment as I want to tell the story in a lens. It makes a great Squidoo story – well I think it does – so you will have to wait a bit longer.

I have so many ideas for new lenses but no time to do them at the moment – there is no way I will get near 30 lenses by the end of the month, let alone 50 so my application for Giant Squid will have to wait.

This last week has seen some extra support from fellow lensmasters:

Carrie, who featured Squid Etiquette on her Helping Squidoo Lenses blog . There’s also more information on Giving Squids a Helping Hand.

MiMi, who featured Soapnuts on her Squidoo Lens Reviews blog. Find out more on MiMi’s lens.

Katinka, who has “interviewed” me for: her Squidtop blog – you can find about more about the rationale behind the blog on: Thank you lensmaster.

So it has been quite a week on Squidoo!