Back to the beginning………

Time to get back to my blog roots.  I’ve gained back 27 of the 30 pounds I lost for the Challenge now that I have no one to RACE to the thin line my motivation has been very lacking.  Who does this??!  WHO works so hard at loosing for 6 months to have it all heaped right back on over night?!??!  Yes, over night, don’t look at me like that!!  I would have seen it coming when my cute skinny clothes didn’t fit if came little by little.  I would have seen it and fixed it right away.  So over NIGHT is what happened. (NO?)  Okay, fine….. how about I have a pregnant daughter that I have such empathy with that I wanted to gain preggo weight with her to make her feel good about pregnancy weight gain.  So I woke up this morning with 9month weight! (HA!  That’s a good one! Huh!? No?)
Hubby’s heart and continuing health scare?
Daughters Pregnancy
My Mom moved in
Hubby quiting smoking day 11
Grandkids outta state
Lazy ass
Bored eating
Stress eating
Haven’t been to work for 11 days stress… you know $$ stress as in…. outta sick time… outta vacation time $$ stress
Don’t sleep well
Lazy friggin’ ass who let this happen AGAIN?!?!?!?! WTF?!?!
SEE?!?!??!?!?
I have any excuse you will accept.  But the buck POUNDS stop HERE! NOW!!  AGAIN!! FOR THE LAST TIME!!!  No more excuses. (MAN!! If I can argue this well with myself think of the hell that DH and my children endure daily!!)
Okay so bottom line.  Today is Monday 1/24/2011 and the scale stops here!
Sleep burns calories right??  Cause I’m off to bed and sleep it off….. wait….. maybe THAT’s how I gained it back!?!  It happened while I was sleeping!!!!!!!
No more excuses. Eating right and drinking water… lots and lots of water!

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:
👉 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. 👻