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Hi, I’m Jo.

A jack of all trades from the Midwest — writing about life, sports, freelancing, and everything in between.


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  • Amazon has a bargain on thumbtacks.

    Amazon has a bargain on thumbtacks.

    I’m getting ready to hang a large corkboard so my son and I can put up pictures, and work on projects, and I just found an absolute steal on thumbtacks. I am also looking for something to use for hanging up some lighter blankets and a couple wall hangings. I knew that I would be…

  • Crypto is having a bad day.

    Crypto is having a bad day.

    My crypto account is seeing red. The amount I’ve made just keeps going down, and it is never something one wants to see. I refuse to cut my losses and turn away from Crypto because, in the long run, I think it is going to be a brilliant financial decision for me. At times like…

  • FedEx really dropped the ball this time.

    FedEx really dropped the ball this time.

    On Wednesday, I made a rash decision to upgrade my laptop, and I found this sweet deal at Dell. Due to the upcoming holiday, the laptops I perused were up to $500 off. I picked out this lovely laptop from the G Series that will seriously upgrade the specs that I’m working with. The main…

  • Facebook/Meta Banhammer for 90 days

    Facebook/Meta Banhammer for 90 days

    A year and a half ago, I chose to post a funny meme on Facebook. Today, that meme came back to bite me in the ass, and it resulted in a ban from posting ads on Facebook. It’s one of the only ways I can hope to gain traffic to my site, and now it…

  • Speak it into existence.

    Speak it into existence.

    The fear of failing is powerful. It can hold the brightest and most ambitious back from success. Sometimes, all we need to do to combat this failure is speak of our goals aloud. Instead of keeping our dearest thoughts and dreams locked inside our minds, we need to release those ideas and let the rest…

  • Down and out, but not defeated. Yet.

    Down and out, but not defeated. Yet.

    2022 has already been a wild ride, and I’m starting to wonder why I chose to go down this path. I can handle rejection. My issue stems from how much time I have spent just to find yet another seemingly insignificant hiccup on the road to working for myself. Once I realized I needed a…