I’ll try to write more often than 1 post/year, once because I miss the time spent with you and second, because I want to improve my English. So please, if you find some mistakes in my posts, leave me a comment and tell me about them.

Love you all!

I’ve submitted my blog to Blog Explosion for about 4 months ago. I understood that there were some changes and the new team has to review a large amount of blogs submitted. But I didn’t expect, not for a minute, that my blog will be declined. And the reason?

Sorry your blog has been declined at BlogExplosion as we are no longer accepting blogs that primarily contain advertising, or promote business opportunities.

Did I miss something? If I search deeper in my blog, I have 7 paid posts out of 105 posts and a few affiliate links on my sidebar.

Another one:

Three months ago, someone has reviewed my blog on LinkRefferal. He said:

This was an okay Blogger. I like the name you have, and also that you made your own header graphic for it. Do you work for blogger? I got the sense that your blog was about advertising for them, as opposed to your “personal” blog. Why do you want traffic to your personal blog? other than your personal friends and what not? what is there on your blog (other than ads and promotion of blogger) that would want someone to come back to read? whats the theme? Just a question I had. Good luck with your blogger..

He didn’t even bother to read more carefully my blog to see that I refer to blogger as a person who writes on a blog. And until this review, I didn’t even hear about Blogger.com

I hate when someone superficially misjudges my work!

Has something like that happened to you? What did you feel about that?

- My son and I where ill: big fever, headache and so on.
- I had some programming issues to one of my sites and the problem isn’t solved yet.
- I’ve upgraded my blog with the latest wordpress.
- I’ve finally added the Brian threaded comments plugin, so now, I’ll be able to answer to each of you, right after your comment. I think this is a very useful plugin, because if I have no time to answer quickly, it is pretty hard to follow my answers to you after n comments. Besides, you can comment to my commentators comments so you see, I think this is a good thing.
- I’ll make some other changes to my blog’s design, but for now, that’s it.

And last but not least: I have a surprise for you; I’ll announce it the next week, so stay tuned!

Now, I must go and give some answers

I know that the trend these days is to establish goals for 2008 and to write about them. I’ve read some interesting articles about goals for 2008. But with my kid running, jumping and yelling around me, is a little hard for me to establish some clear goals for the next year. So, until I’ll find a little quiet time for myself to establish my goals, I want to write what are my hopes for 2008.

1. I hope my mother will be healthier
My mother had a stroke on March 9th, 2007. The rest of the year she spends her time immobilized in bed. She was half paralyzed and she needs to make many exercises to recover her arm and her leg. But after a month from her stroke, she want to make us a surprise and she try to arise alone from bed. She fall down and she twisted her ankle very bad. After that she made a bad depression and she didn’t want to do something anymore. She just slept and cries. Now, she walks very rare and very hard. And from a very powerful, cheerful and ambitious woman she turns in a very depressive one, who doesn’t want to do anything. I want my mother back!

2. I hope my son’s balance will be better
My son falls down very often. He hasn’t a good balance. He falls down even when he is standing. He also walks on his toes and he walks like he is groggy. And, of course, he is hitting very often. Many doctors said to us that the walker was the cause for all these. But we meet a doctor who said that the reason for all these is the fact that he was born with the umbilical cord around his neck and his part of brain responsible with the movement function wasn’t irrigated well. I really hope that with many exercises things will go better. Otherwise, he is a burly kid; he’s very smart, very beautiful and very cheerful. He is the sun of my life!

3. I hope my marriage will be better
My husband and I are married 18 years now. A lifetime! But in the last years we argue very often and I’m really tired of all this fights. Both of us are explosive and our altercations are really terrible. I hope, for the sake of my son, to be able to communicate one to each other better and more peacefully. We had spent some great years together. I want those years back!

4. I hope I could buy a little house with a big backyard
Well, I said it! I want a little house with a big backyard somewhere to the mountain, so I can go there with my family on holydays. Just right now, we spend our holidays in our apartment in a city and we haven’t too much money to go somewhere else on holidays. I want to see my son running and jumping and yelling and breathing fresh air while I’m blogging on my porch

5. I hope days will have 25 hours a day
This year was a tough year for me. Carrying my mother, trying to find out what is wrong with my son’s feet, fighting with my husband, running my little business, blogging… Damn, the day is too short for me. Even if I was sleeping 3-4 hours a night, the day still was too short. I hope 2008’s days will be much longer so I could have time to do all I have and all I want to do.

Since I’m an introvert person, you should know that open my heart to you is quiet difficult to me. But this is my fight with me: to be more open with my friends. This would be my 6th hope.

What are your hopes for 2008? What are your deepest wishes?

Merry Christmas to all of you and best wishes for 2008!