Ashley Needles

Ever written a list that goes something like: Take vitamins Pay bills Pick up dry cleaning Get spinach, cheese, and rice thins Etc Etc Ect Until you want to pull your hair out and just go back to bed? I have, but all that changed a few years ago. My to-do lists transformed into tiny love notes to myself. Now my lists look something like this, Dear Ashley, I'm so proud of you for waking up today! Getting out of bed might be a small accomplishment but you've already accomplished one thing today! I love your passion for life! Hey, I hope you will remember to take those yummy vitamins I got you! I want to see if they work! Maybe they will give you tons of energy for the rest of the day! The internet is expensive this month but you are doing so great with marketing and writing your books, it's worth it to me. You are worth it to me! Oh and remember that gorgeous dress you wore on that sexy date? It's at the dry cleaners. You look smashing in it...

As my FB friends know, I've been looking into monetizing this blog. At first, I was just going to turn on the option at the side bar which goes through ad sense. After learning that pays peanuts and I'd have to edit myself, I looked into getting an affiliate account. I read some articles on marketing with blogs and came up with two things I want to market on this. Number one, audiobooks on relationships and healthy psychology, number two adult toys. Here's the rub, audiobooks are considered safe and adult products are considered taboo. Apparently mixing the two is absolute insanity. No wonder STD's are spreading like wildfire. People who like sex aren't encouraged to build real relationships and people who want real relationships aren't encouraged to be bedroom bold by our society. Sex is healthy! Sex is GOOD and imagine this, it's GREAT FOR RELATIONSHIPS!!!!!! Our society splitting sex into bad and self-development into good explains why there are so ...