I have been working all day with my 9 month old daughter on my lap. Right now she’s asleep, so my left arm, which fell asleep approximately a half hour ago, is trying to get some keyboard action in.

Normally I wouldn’t bother, but I have a writing deadline that is quickly approaching, and for some reason, Coley decided that today of all days is the day in which she will NOT be put down. Not even for a minute.

I’ve written the obligitory “Sorry about my typing, baby on lap” just about 400 times today in various forms of communication - texting, IMs, and emails.

So I’ve now declared a new word in the MOM ROCKS dictionary, to save me the trouble of having to tell YOU that no, I’m not stupid, I’m not slow, I do know how to spell most words, I just have fifteen pounds of colicky chub on my lap.

Hence my new word: BLAP. Baby on lap… get it? Eh, it will catch on. At least, it will on this blog.

Anyone else BLAP? (the verb form “blapping” will also be allowed, fyi, as in: “I know it’s 2am, but I missed my favorite blog today so I’m totally blapping right now”)

Okay, I’m trying not to be a crybaby or a whiner here. I really am. But I just wanted to vent for a bit about eBay’s new listing policies, and how it will totally suck for me and literally hundreds of others who sell digital items.

Have not a clue about what I’m talking about? To recap, eBay decided today that they will no longer allow the selling of any type of digital delivered item. Not only does this mean ebooks (which used to make up a bunch of my eBay profits), but this also means domain names, websites, digital photos, templates, graphics, advertising…. the list goes on, but I think you get the idea.

I have sold on eBay since 2000. When my son was a baby, I sold so much that I (accidentally) attained PowerSeller status. Got a certificate and everything - and it’s still hanging in my living room (I’m such a loser, I know). Never did I need to go to the post office. I sold 99.99 percent of my goods online, via digital delivery (there was one time, where I was selling a large website of mine for a big chunk of cash, that I created a backup CD of website files for the new owner).

I have said time and time again, that selling digital items on eBay is one of the BEST ways to make income from home. Very stress-free. Now all of this will be changing, and I’m really not seeing it changing for the better.

Ebay was 1 out of 5 ways that I made/make money online. I will need to think long and hard about how to turn this into a positive. My only idea right now is to use eBay solely as a means to drive traffic to my website(s) via classified ads, with my digital items being sold directly on the site.

I will keep the blog updated on this topic, and if I can find any other positives to this change. I am SO not happy about this. What a suck-ass thing to wake up to!

I have been misplaced for the past few months. Hope you don’t mind my arrival back.

I’ll spend this month revamping the site (new blog layout, new pages, updated categories) so please excuse the mess around here till then.

I had (have) many wonderful ideas for this blog… far too many to actually implement, and I felt overwhelmed.  This time around, I plan to keep the blog as simplistic as I possibly can.

That’s it for now.  Got a lot of catching up to do.