Not Much

That's what I did today--not much. I spent too much time scrolling on Facebook for no reason I can discover. I read posts on the Ad School FB page and commented on a few of them. Then I turned to the Campaign Manager on my Amazon Ads page and got busy removing "book" from the keyword ads. It was interesting to see that "book" got a lot of Impressions but very few Clicks and no Sales so it was a distraction. I also went into Better Than Mom's and Horizon ads to look for "book" and to remove "romance" because although there is romance in the books they don't match the expectations of Romance book readers. And I just discovered that I've got 25 more ads to search through because only 50 were on the page and I have 75 ads. Guess what I'll be doing tomorrow.

 

I drew a gratitude page for yesterday this morning. I was mostly grateful for the calls and visits from my kids and grandkids for my birthday. It made all the mom-ing and meemaw-ing I do worthwhile.

 

Once I got finished going through ads this afternoon I looked up today's drawing prompt which was Famous Painting. Not having any famous paintings lying around the house I dug out a book from The Art Institute in Chicago and found a Picasso I liked. I ran out of time coloring it so the background didn't get filled in but I'm not unhappy with the way it turned out.

 

Tonight was the Writers' Guild meeting. I didn't take anything to read but enjoyed hearing some of the others read and hearing the comments people offered.

I'll try to do better tomorrow. Maybe do some writing. Maybe see a nice looking bird.

--Barbara 

Happy Labor Day! Happy Birthday to Me!

Today is both a national holiday and a personal one. Today I'm 74 which is a much bigger number some days than others. Most of the time I don't feel my age but lately I do, probably because of my injured knee. 

 

I got presents from DD today. It's watercolor paints in pans and a pack of sheets of watercolor paper. I've heard of the paints. I think in one of the online painting classes I took the teacher mentioned that she likes this brand of paints. There are round sheets of watercolor paper in addition to squares and rectangles. Painting on the circles should be interesting. I'm trying to figure out how I'll tape the paper to the plexiglass board so it stays flat and stays in place.

 

As soon as I could I taped a piece of the paper to a board and tried out the paints. I painted a sunflower. It isn't bad.

 

The drawing prompt today was Woods, Trees & Forests so I drew a tree. Trees are hard for me so I'm kind of satisfied with this one.

 

DS and his family invited me over for chicken fajitas, Mexican rice, and corn on the cob. There was chocolate pie for dessert. Every bite was delicious. The kids made cards for me and they got me a bouquet of mums. Aren't they pretty?

 

I saw a bigger bird on the birdbath this morning and wasn't sure what kind of bird it was. Then it turned around and I saw that it was a juvenile Robin. You can tell because of its speckled breast.

 

And the lawn mowers came today. That surprised me, not only because they were just here five days ago, but also because it's a holiday. Again they were quick and thorough.

 

I spent most of the afternoon going into my Amazon Ads and turning off "book" as a keyword. I learned in my coaching session a couple weeks ago that "book" is too broad a search term so it doesn't position my ad in front of the right people. Makes sense. So I downloaded this Search Terms Report and scrolled down to see which ads had "book" as a search term, then I went into each ad and turned the term off. I got a lot done but will probably look through it again tomorrow to make sure I've got them all paused.

 

And that's it for my exciting holiday/birthday. I took a little walk again. It seems like I'm getting more winded the more I do it rather than getting better at it. I'll keep walking and hope things change.

--Barbara