New And Exciting Things

Okay, today’s post is full of new and exciting things. Just like the title said. How clever the title was! So make sure you stick around and check them all out. ;)

New Sponsor!

While I was away I totally didn’t focus on keeping up with the sponsor advertisements in my sidebar. Sorry guys! This is a new way I’m testing/trying out to see if it’s a good fit for this blog. I know that since I get a lot of new search engine traffic for people searching for weight loss and healthy living blogs it’s a good place to advertise if you are looking for new readers.  It’s a win/win for me and the sponsors.

Emmie from Skinny Emmie is the newest sponsor! I was very excited when she contacted me about becoming a sponsor because I already LOVE her weight loss blog. Check out her ad in the sidebar and her bio below:

Skinny Emmie is a twenty-something weight loss blogger who lives in Kentucky. This happily married marketing professional is on a 255 pound weight loss journey, after being morbidly obese a large portion of her life. Becoming “Skinny Emmie” isn’t about being thin, it’s about being happy, healthy and confident.

Becoming “Skinny Emmie” is about becoming healthy and happy. That’s it. If it means I’m 275 pounds, so be it- that will be my Skinny. If it means I’m 200 pounds, so be it. This is my project in feeling physically better, and healing myself emotionally from the invisible scars that I’ve accumulated over the years. Fat Emmie doesn’t even have to be Fat. If I get to 160 pounds and still have the same emotional baggage and outlook on life, I AM STILL FAT.

Awesome outlook right? Sounds familiar? That’s right, she’s awesome. Go check out her blog and thank her for being one of our awesome sponsors by supporting her weight loss journey! ;)

How You Can Become A Sponsor

You can purchase a 125 x 125 advertisement for your blog to be placed in the right sidebar for a monthly fee of $20USD. If you are interested in buying an ad to support the site and gain visits for your own, please e-mail me at amerrylife (at) gmail (dot) com.

You will have to design and send me your button for the ad. For an additional fee I can design something for you. Depending on how eyecatching your design is you can expect anywhere from 200 to 2000 clicks a month from a rotating advertisement on A Merry Life. As a monthly blog supporter you will also get a minimum of one shout out (text link) in a post. The best fits are those that blog or own a website in the niche of weightloss, healthy living, or food. ;)

If you are interested in becoming a sponsor and buying a rotating ad in the right sidebar, leave me a comment or send me an email about it.

New Blog

Even thought the wedding is over a year away, I’m completely excited about it. And because I’m so excited about it I want to talk about it, talk about the plans, talk about everything and anything wedding related. And I’m pretty sure this feeling isn’t going away. So instead of forcing you all to read about wedding planning every day I decided to start a new blog for that purpose. I want to keep this blog about my (and our) journey to healthiness. So I created a new blog: A MERRY WIFE. It’s still related to this blog, which started our relationship and it’s a place where I can gush/vent/blog about all the wedding stuff without turning anyone off. (No promises to how often it will be updated, but it will be there for occasional blogging over the next year.)  If you want to follow my process over there you can and if you don’t you can just stay here and discuss all the weight loss/body image/food issues that we normally talk about.  If you do want to read The Awesomest Wedding in the History of Weddings: A Blog (Kepa’s title).

Upcoming

This week is Kepa’s last in the USA so we are going to be doing a lot of fun stuff. We did start registering yesterday, which was an awesome experience to get to have. We probably will wait and do the rest online closer to time that it’s meant to be done, but I wanted to at least look at some things in the store. :) Today we are going to eat yummy things and watch a baseball game! It’s going to be a fun day and the rest of the week is filled with just the same! :)

Next week however is going to suck. Kepa leaves then I’m here a week longer. It will be useful because I need to go to the doctor, wrap up lose ends, etc. I have a million errands to run before moving abroad and that will be good to take care of, but it will be so sad to be without Kepa again! At least it’s just for one week. ;) I’m thinking about doing a giveaway on the blog next Tuesday as something fun next week in addition to all the boring errands. Everyone loves giveaways, right?

1. I did things! I made things! COOL!
2. My Exciting Plans… I’m Going To….
3. Big Things Are Coming!

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