What time to you get up in the morning? Are you a morning person or a night owl?

Frankly, I don’t sleep well. Furthermore, since I have started writing paid post, I only sleep about 4 hours a day. I’m staying in Asia and PPP pours out the opps in the middle of the night, at my time. So, I got to stay up and wait for the opps, after my kids have fallen asleep at 10pm. By the time I finish blogging at 3am, if I’m lucky enough to get some opp, I will head straight to bed, and sleep uneasily because my baby is still nursing.

Both my kids wake up after 7.30am, and I have to get up too. Sometimes, my maid can help me out and let me snooze for another hour, if my girl is willing to follow her, and hubby is around to send my boy to preschool. If not, I will have to get up for another day. It’s very tiring.

I’m turning into a night own since I started monetizing my blog. Frankly, I don’t have much sleep after I began working from home. It’s another stage in life, and I wonder how long will I be working like this. If I get a day job, I don’t have to stay up, and I bet I will be so much healthier and prettier too because my dark circles and eye bags are really bad. LOL!

What do you do about working at home if something unexpected happens? Do you bag it for the day or try to make it up later?

I guess it depends on what and how serious that uneventful incident is. My work at home nature is mainly on blogging, so it’s easier to manuveur.

Just like today. I hit a car. Frankly, it’s nothing serious. But I felt disturbed. So, I went for a nap with my kids in the afternoon, which is something I won’t be doing normally as that’s my blogging hour. But hey? We deserve to get some time out too, right?

I’ve never got involved in a serious one. The only scam I got was the time when I firstly ventured myself in working from home. I searched for working from home apportunity in Malaysia and most of the sites I got were about MLM. I don’t like to beg persuade anyone to buy stuffs from me, I’m a shoppingmum, I buy from others only.

But I came across this site which stated type ads and earn money, and it’s based in Malaysia. The site owner, it’s a she, said just pay RM15, and she will let me know how to do it and give me the ads.

Ok, I blur blur went to public bank and banked in RM15 into her account. And guess what? She sent me the code of putting up the ad on google or blogs, and some examples of other bloggers who have put up the ad. So, I emailed her and asked, where’s the typing job? She said the job is to “type” up the ad and get RM15 from every single one who signed up. Can you believe this?

I skrewed her up in my email, and threatened to expose her real name, wei, I got from her bank account ok?

But I didn’t do that. What’s the point? It’s only RM15, not a big money anyway. So, beware of this stupid cheap scam locally, Malaysia Boleh people. Yeap, Boleh Tipu!

The question of the week for April 2, 2007 is:

Do you do any spring cleaning, or anything to get ready for the warmer weather?

Oh boy, I live in Malaysia, and it’s summer all year long, except during the raining season. The only major spring cleaning I have is before Chinese New Year, in January or February every year. There is the busiest time of the year as not only that we clean the house, my mother-in-law will find some part of the house that needs some home improment done. And you know, it can be really messy to have the house renovated!

However, it’s a good time to clear out the old stuffs and give them away as charity or to the less fortunate too. Not only that the house looks neater with a fresh look, I guess it makes us realized how blessed with are with all the stuffs we have too.

How do you remind yourself of daily tasks? A to do list? A computer program? Let us know the details!

When I was working, I was very well-organized. I have a planner with me to list down the daily tasks according to importance and urgency. However, I don’t do this after I quit my job. I just use my mind to remember things I need to do.

My daily schedule is pretty simple. After I got my boy ready for preschool, I can start the day by checking my mailbox, while playing with my baby. I don’t do much in the morning, as she’s cruising now, so I need to be more watchful. If there is a particular task or opps which I need to compose, I will leave the window open, and I will “sneak” in to do bits by bits whenever possible. Other than that, I do my work when my kids are napping or sleeping.

It’s not easy to get things completed as I planned after being a SAHM. So, I will do myself to get as much done as possible, while enjoying my mothering moments. But I do forget stuffs, like updating my blogroll or checking out some sites. Luckily, I have good blogger friends to remind me about that!

Frankly, I haven’t thought about this all the while! Besides going to my centre for about 10 hours a week, most of the time, I blog at home. I can only blog the best when the kids are sleeping, which means I’m burning the midnight oil.

I think the main purpose why I stopped working is to be with my kids, by being a full time mom. And if I just leave them wondering around without me at home, while I’m being a blogging whore, what’s the point of quiting my job in the first place? So, my kids come first, and I would rather sacrifise my beauty sleep to blog for money.

So, am I working? I don’t think so. I’m just blogging. LOL!