DH’s boss came to our house today to give him his yearly job review/evaluation. DH got gold stars
and a raise. DH is THE man!!!! I guess him being out since January 14th drove home the “WOW we
really need him! He really is an asset we can’t afford loose” Personally, I thought the
whole having a heart attack was kinda a dramatic way to go about it… but hey, that’s just me.
Soooooooooo when the boss called and said “I’ll need a couple of hours with you, when would be a good time?” My first thought was “I’m okay with right NOW?” But since the plant is an hour away they agreed on today. Okay okay fine… that works too. (Now a normal person would freak out…A COUPLE OF HOURS!?!?!!! A normal person would think WTF?! Why is a yearly job review going to take a couple of hours??) But ya all know I’m not the most
normal person on the block
. I was thinking I will HAVE A COUPLE OF HOURS
aloooone time….. I can do what
ever I want!!! I CAN leave the house ALONE!!!!!
I was so excited by promise of alone time I was wide awake at 1:25 this morning. 11:00am as promised the door bell rang and I’m pretty sure I saw the bosses head do a cartoon whirl around as I passed him in the doorway. SEEEEEEEE YAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! You’re in charge… don’t leave him alone …. I’ll be back. At the 2 hour mark I was here… they weren’t done. I even had time to go to the library!! I had 4 HOURS of recharge time!!
I came home more relaxed than drinking a whole bottle of wine. (FYI it was hard to find something around the house that said ‘relaxed’ so I chose a bottle of wine…. then set it in front of my orchids… that was a cheap way of saying HEY!! LOOK AT MY ORCHIDS!!! I have so many blossoms on them both!!! Look at me with my mad gardening skills!! Even my poinsettia’s are still alive!! It’s February 24!!! Yup…I rock too!!
Updating My SEO Because Even the Internet Needs a Good Declutter
If you’ve been poking around
peanutbutterandwhine.com lately and thought, “Huh, something feels different,” congratulations. Your instincts are sharp and possibly paranormal.
I’m deep in the process of updating my SEO. Not the glamorous kind of update where confetti falls and Google personally thanks me, but the gritty, behind-the-scenes kind where old posts get dusted off, links get refreshed, and keywords are gently coaxed into behaving better. Think less makeover montage, more haunted house cleanup.
While revisiting early posts, I discovered something unsettling. Many of the original photos and videos have completely vanished. Not broken links. Not corrupted files. Gone. Poof. Into the digital ether. This can only confirm one thing:
peanutbutterandwhine.com is haunted.
There is no other explanation. Sure, it
could be old hosting changes, platform migrations, or me being wildly optimistic about my organizational skills a decade ago. But let’s be honest. It’s ghosts. Internet ghosts. Possibly annoyed by my early font choices.
So here I am, updating old posts with new images, clearer formatting, better internal linking, and SEO-friendly structure so Google can finally understand what I’ve been yelling into the void all these years. I’m also making sure posts connect to each other logically, like linking back to my ongoing fun stuff such as the
Monthly $50 Your Way Giveaway right here:
👉
https://peanutbutterandwhine.com
Internal links help readers stick around, help search engines crawl the site, and possibly appease the spirits living in my archives.
I’m also adding relevant external links to trustworthy sources, because Google appreciates good neighbors. For example, SEO best practices straight from the pros over at Moz:
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https://moz.com/learn/seo
The goal isn’t to rewrite history. It’s to make sure my content is still useful, readable, and visible in a world where the internet changes faster than my craft room fills up.
If you stumble across a refreshed post, missing photos, or suspiciously improved clarity, just know it’s intentional. And if something disappears again overnight… I’ll be lighting a sage bundle and updating my alt text.
Stay tuned. The ghosts are watching. 👻
One Comment
Emily M.
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