HuffPo & Me!

GUESS WHAT?!

Arianna Huffington is my new bestie! Valentine's Day is in less than two weeks. I usually don't give a flying fork about Vday. I'm an army of 1+poodle, and can't really imagine having the time or patience for much else. But even if I did have a +1, I really wouldn't have anytime for him seeing as my brownies have been FEATURED ON THE HUFFINGTON POST!



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 THAT'S RIGHT!  About a week ago, an Etsy Admin member contacted me about a possible feature on the Huffington Post's Valentine's Day Gifts for Men, from Etsy guide. I kind of half believed it was a hoax, but seeing as how they didn't ask me for my social security number and weren't claiming to be one of my long lost cousins from Nigeria (which wouldn't really have worked on me, seeing as how I've actually spent time with good amount of my family in Nigeria) I responded to the email and provided the information they ask for, and told myself that nothing would come of it. I'm a pessimist in that way, tragic I know.

But wouldn't you know, as I was I checking my Etsy stats this morning, I saw a big spike in traffic, and sure enough the source was from the one and only Huffington Post. #O.M.G.

As you would imagine, I'm geekin' at my desk right now. And I'm also thinking of every way I can drive traffic to the article . I'm also freaking out a bit, and worrying that this will either be a bust for and result in 0 sales, or be an amazing success resulting in more sales than I have space in my kitchen to bake with.

Obviously, I have issues. But either way, this totally just made my Friday!

And I would be remiss if I say it. What are you getting YOUR guy from V-Day? Butter is Love and Browned Butter is Lust. True Story.

!Besos de Chocolate!

Awesomeness

Because when you can't control anything else in your life, you can always control your blog. and make it more awesome...

¡Hola Guapos! [I really need to start practicing my Rosetta Stone again, because my Spanish vocabulary is still tragically limited, but I digress...]

Just a heads up [after the fact], I've made some big changes to my comment section. I love getting comments from you guys, and I have been wanting to make the commenting experience more interactive. Now since Blogger refuses to avail it's loyal users with a variety of options for comment management and interaction like certain other blog platforms [word press], I have had to take matters into my own hands. ::sidebar:: I just realized that more often than not, I'm prone to taking matters into my own hands to get what I want. Go me! I also just realized that that very aspect of my very being is WHY my now 17 month job search has me at the very edge of reason. Le sigh:: So in order to facilitate a more interactive comment and reply experience on this lovely blog of mine, I've installed the Disqus comment service. You can check out that in my last blog post, I individually responded to your comments. *Akeem voice* Isn't that wonderful?

But wait, there's more!
If you so choose, you can create your own profile on Disqus (or link your various social networking accounts to create a disqus profile) AND opt in for email notification on replies from myself or other blog followers on your comments. I know you're probably thinking you don't feel like setting up another profile on another website, etc. etc. But it's up to you. You can still comment without setting up a Disqus profile, it's completely up to you. Soooo there you have it. Pure Awesomeness

*Coming to America reference. If you don't know what I'm talking about, I highly suggest you Netflix it immediately.