I’m going to be going on a vacation this fall with a small group of friends.  We’ll be going to Bar Harbor, Maine for the Columbus Day Weekend.  We’re going there because the weather will be nice and the fall foliage will be at peak and we’ll be able to get off-season rates on the hotel rooms.  We’ve agreed to order matching sweatshirts with custom embroidery on the shirts to commemorate the trip.  We’ll be ordering them from the bluecotton.com website.  My girlfriend says her office has ordered from them before and they were very pleased with the quality of the shirts and the embroidery.

I thought I had comfy slippers. I bought them new last fall, and I’ve been wearing them around the house every day since then. They have well padded soles, and are the “scuff” style that you just slide your feet into. I couldn’t wait to get home and take off my shoes and put on my slippers. Well about a week ago I bought some of those orthopedic things that you put into your shoes to make your shoes more comfy, and now I have to tell you that I hate taking off my shoes and putting on my slippers!  And the past three nights I’ve been waking up in the middle of the night with cramps in my feet; I think it was because I was wearing my slippers all the time and my feet wanted the extra support of my shoes.  So I think I need to buy new slippers, and maybe put the orthopedic insoles in the slippers!

I travel quite a bit.  So I’ve been thinking about getting an Airline Miles Credit Card that gives me airline miles on it as rewards.  The airlinecreditcardrewards.com website reviews and compares the three most popular airline miles cards and gives you the opportunity to apply for them from within their site.  So I’ll be checking out the cards through them when I’m ready to order one.

Well I thought it was going to be a simple dinner, but it turned out to be a better than average one tonight.  I had some chicken thighs in the refrigerator that needed to be cooked up.  So they went into the oven with the Bisquick oven-fried chicken recipe.  While that was cooking I put some refrigerator biscuits in to cook in the toaster oven, and some Bob Evans mashed potatoes went into the microwave, along with fat free chicken gravy and some peas.  Turned out to be having a Sunday dinner on a Tuesday night!  No one complained though! 

It would probably be very vain and presumptuous of me to think (or write) that my little blog makes a big difference in the world.  But I do like to think that my blog might make a small difference somewhere out there; perhaps inspire someone to try something they’ve never tried before, or help them to cheer up when they are down, or perhaps even to enrage them into action if I spout off about something that I perceive is something bad!  Of course the action would hopefully be to correct the bad thing, and not to be doing anything bad themselves! 

But my blog being beside the point, blogs ARE making a big difference in the world.  People are sharing, and reading opinions and thoughts and spreading them throughout their social network that they have built through their blogs.  That is why blog marketing is a big part of almost any business marketing strategy if the business wants to expand beyond their own little town.  The Izea Company is a marketing company that utilizes the social marketing advantages of the blog networks and offers their clients several different types of innovative marketing strategies such as product sampling, blog posts, and blog sponsorship.