Hello! If anyone’s still reading this blog, I’m back. Let me explain my absense:

I was laid off from my full-time job. So, instead of blogging on my DumpyStripMalls blog, I had to find a way to actually earn money from my writing. Trust me, the ads on this website *maybe* made me $5 in the last year.

Very pathetic.

Instead of blogging, I began writing mind-numbingly boring online content via Demand Studios (basically writing articles for eHow, Travels.com and LIVESTONG websites) and on AOL’s partner sites. I’ve written articles on sites like WalletPop, Gadling, Aslyum, Jobs@AOL and Kids Online. The work isn’t as fun as writing for this blog (read: I can’t use humor), but it pays bills. I was (well, still am) a victim of this economy and had to find a way to make money writing.

I still don’t have a job. In some ways, it stinks, but in other ways, I’m happy. I’ve went a completely new direction in my career. I’m writing, and although it’s just at online content sites, I enjoy it.

So why am I back? I MISS THIS! I love writing this blog. Getting laid off was a huge shock for me; I didn’t know what to do. I’ve NEVER been without a job since I was 15.  It’s not that I didn’t WANT to update this site; I had to find a way to make money and Dumpy Strip Malls  doesn’t pay the bills.

So, that said, I’m ready to do this again. I have over 300 comments to “approve” and I have plenty of material to write. I’m still looking for a job, but after doing so much of boring online content writing, I *need* an outlet where I can be creative and take shitty iPhone pictures of ugly buildings.

Plus, because I am freelancing (and looking for a regular job, but in the writing field instead of marketing) and not working a traditional 9-5, I have much more time to hit up places and take pictures.

Dumpy Strip Malls has risen from the dead!

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