Of course this was a goal going into the year but didn't know how to do it. The blog is still pretty basic if it gets improved with a nicer design, that will be an unplanned goal. In the mean time, I'm happy that I kept up with posts and maybe more people will enjoy it.
Ebay Top Rated Seller
I hadn't planned on this but I became a Top Rated Seller on eBay. This didn't get me much in the way of discounts or anything. I opened an eBay store and that got me more discounts than anything. I think that as a Top Rated Seller, my listings get pushed up in search results above regular folks. I'm not sure of the total amount but I have had about 1500 selling transactions this year. I would call the vast majority of them micro-transactions. I don't remember selling anything over $200 and most of my sales came from auctions beginning at $0.99.
You may recall my post earlier this year regarding my Fantasy Football draft. Well I finished in first place during the regular season (just like last year). Just like last year, my fantasy team fell apart in the playoffs. My top two running backs (Melvin Gordon and Matt Forte) and my stud receiver Julio Jones got injured the week of my playoffs. Then that same week Seattle's defense scores -2 and Drew Brees plays the worst fantasy game of the season. I got knocked out of the championship game and into the game for 3rd, which I fortunately won thanks in large part to Drew Brees' comeback game and Matt Bryant kicking well. The rest of my team did bad that week due to injury but at least the guy I played did bad too so I won 3rd place in the 12 man league.
This was a surprise. I gained weight, about 10 pounds since last year. This is a good thing. I can cut weight if I try and I will normally lose weight if I stop lifting weights. Even lifting weights over the past few years I have been losing weight. I changed my workout routine by working out one specific muscle group a day rather than combining muscle groups. I've changed the routine up this year and it has worked out well. I am also eating a second lunch while at work and that seems to be contributing to my weight gain. The down side is that my waist size has increased 1/2 a size. That makes sense though because my weight gain has been evenly distributed to the good parts and the bad parts. I'll just have to cut out more junk food to keep my waist the same size. The extra meal has also stopped my headaches that I wrote about in the "Coffee" blog update. It turned out that I was having bad headaches because my body wasn't getting enough food. This came as a side effect of getting bigger and older. I could live off dairy and liquid diets when I was younger and working out but now I can't.
