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December

Again, not much earnings last month from my little eggs.

SwagBucks: $5 Amazon Gift Certificate
CloudCroud: $3.85
Greenfeild Online: $5
AdTweety: $1

For January ...
I started on a forum posting project for a private client. Also, I'm still waiting on the LiveWork Projects to start back up. I'm not holding my breathe anymore on these but it would be nice if they pickup again soon.

I spent a lot of my time in December on _kgb and ChaCha. I am not too sure about either of them because the earnings are just so low for the amount of time required to put into them. I'll keep them in my basket for now though.

CloudCrowd has been getting more tasks in, the pay is low but it's a nice little egg because if I have a few minutes time I can just log in and do a few tasks, and the Payments come in the next day via PayPal.

Happy New Year!

Best wishes for 2010, may it be better than the years that came before!

Happy Holidaze & the Juggling Act that is my Life!

I hope everyone had a great Christmas! Our Christmas budget was pretty low this year, but thanks to family Zak still had a great day with more toys now then we have bins for.

Life has been pretty hectic around here lately to say the least, and this past month has went by almost at the blink of an eye for me. I'm trying to figure out how to manage my 18 month old while nursing my 4week old and working on my laptop all at the same time. It's a real juggling act but it's my way of life now. I can't wait until my son learns to listen when I tell him "No, please leave Mommy's laptop alone". He broke my last laptop, and already managed to ding my new one up a couple times.

On top of all that, I've have a migraine since right after delivery as a result of spinal fluid leakage from the epidural - making concentrating a bit of a challenge as well. I've been hesitant to go back to the hospital for the blood patch to stop the leak with a baby who wants to nurse 24/7 so it's something I'm just trying to work through for now.

Hectic or not, life must go on and the bills must be paid. I somehow managed to complete training and start working for both ChaCha and kgb_. I can't write much about them, as I don't want to violate my contract in anyway so I will not be giving totals for these two. Both are hiring now however if anyone is interested in adding additional eggs to their baskets.

The Livework project is supposed to pick back up the beginning of January now, and this will be what I plan to put the majority of my free time (ha!) and effort into as it has the most earning potential. Now I just have to figure out how to get more computer time in!

November Summary ...

My November totals are pretty slim. I was really counting on the LiveWork team I was working on to pick back up, which it didn't. I did get accepted into a new team about a week ago, and work is supposed to pick back up the beginning of January. Otherwise, in November I was super busy getting ready for the baby and working for my web design clients trying to get all major projects done before I went into labor.

CloudCrowd:   $ 2.07
AroundMe:      $23.97

November Total: $26.04

Thanksgiving Baby News!

I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving! I welcomed my baby girl into the world on Thanksgiving morning, 11/26/2009 at 7:13am - weighing 7lbs 3oz and 21.25" long. I just got back home from the hospital yesterday, and I am enjoying a babymoon at home now with my husband, son, and new baby girl.

Swagbucks, PeopleString & AroundMe

Happy Friday! It has been a busy week for me, spent mostly trying to tie up as many loose ends as possible before I go into labor. I caught up on all my business work for the week and managed to sneak a couple new side opportunities into the mix. Since I'm so close to my due date, I'm being careful to only take on projects I can take a break from when the baby comes so my side project earnings this month probably won't be too impressive. Every little bit counts though for my family right now as I'm sure it does for most others!

Swagbucks

I finally decided to try out Swagbucks after seeing it mentioned quite a bit. It's a search engine website that rewards you for using it for searches, online shopping, cellphone and video game trade ins, referrals, etc. Their rewards currency is called swag bucks, which you earn randomly from searches. You can cash them in for items in their rewards catalog and even for PayPal cash deposits. Once you get to 45 swag bucks you can get a $5 Amazon git card. This is what I'll be saving for unless they put some of the other rewards on sale. I installed their toolbar yesterday to remember to use them for more searches and have been getting more wins with swag bucks since doing that. I'm only a few days into it, but it seems to be an easy way to accumulate some gift certificates. I also went ahead and traded in 2 of my old cellphones that were headed for the Best Buy cell phone recycle bin, they paid postage and I'll be getting a couple swag bucks for it. I will post an update when I get my first Amazon gift card!

PeopleString

I signed up for PeopleString the beginning of the month to see what it's all about. They pay you to read mail. After signing up you complete a survey and then they mail you a post card to your home. Once you get the post card (it took a couple weeks for me to get mine), it will give you your code to use on the website. Just for entering the code in you get $1.50. After that you begin to get mail to your Cashbox, and you make money just for reading it! Pretty easy. The minimum payout is $25, and they pay every 2 weeks. You also get paid to receive postal mail (which I haven't gotten as of yet). I'm hoping the mail starts flowing soon so the money can add up to enough to cash out.  Be sure to keep the code they send in the mail, you will need to enter it to get money for reading the mail to your cashbox!

AroundMe.com

Aroundme.com is paying $25 for users to write 10 reviews for them on local businesses such as restaurants, doctors, salons, & banks. They want the reviews to be short, only 60-150 words total so it is a very quick and easy project. This is a one time thing, and only ongoing until November 24th. If you are interested, you will need to have a Facebook account. You have to apply through their Facebook page, here is the link to the job listing and instructions: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Around-Me/132806203731?v=app_4949752878&ref=ts

I did not hear back right away, as it seems it is a manual review process of applicants. I wanted to be sure to get this one done quick in case I went into labor early so I contacted them and heard back with further instructions fairly quickly. I don't want to post her direct email because of spammers, but they have a contact form on their site you can try if you don't hear back, http://aroundme.com/page/contact.

I got my $25 PayPal transfer earlier today. Here's my Payment Proof.