Now, now, Leandra. Don’t get your granny panties in a knot. If it’s not true, fine.

But is her revenue really inappropriate for anyone be discussing? Not really, considering Leandra revealed late last year that she made over $10,000 in two months using affiliate linking program Linkshare on her blog. In the article in Fashionologie, she admitted:

When I’m working with other brands, my first question is, ‘What am I doing for you?’ and ‘Do you want me to blog about it?’ Because, if it’s attached to the blog, I’ll charge two to three times the amount. It’s all about setting benchmarks: I did one gig in May where I styled mannequins and made $5,000. I decided that I’m no longer going to do styling gigs for $500 or $1,000 if I can hold onto my guns and get more.

Maybe congratulations are in order?

Hey hams, partypants here. I have to go into Midtown to do this thing today where I interview for a new contract so I can feed my cats and pay for your server needs. I’ll be home around 3pm (eastern time) and because I want something to come home to besides a dirty litter box I thought I’d empty my brain over the keyboard and let you voice your thoughts.

This is an open post so your comments don’t even have to be about GOMI. I want to know: Do you think running a website is (even part time) a job?

EDIT: I removed the crap about me and my situation. Honestly I’m just not comfortable sharing that here right now. It’s fine if you guys who see it in your readers or saw it before my edit want to discuss it (I won’t pretend it didn’t happen or anything stupid like that) but seriously the more I thought about it the more I just don’t want that up here right now. I just want to think on it some more I guess.

EDIT EDIT: Ok, now I feel like an ass for deleting my honest thoughts. Below is the portion I deleted, and I’ll just keep it out there and take whatever opinions come my way.

If you’ve been in chat (you registered porks have joined us in chat, right?) you may have a) written down my phone number and b) heard me ask for opinions about what you folks would think if in about three months I started to try and do contract work only 3 days a week and I dunno, sleep. I say sleep because as it stands I work about 10 hours a day and then spend from 4-10 hours on GOMI stuff. I feel weird about cutting back on WORK WORK because I personally don’t think running a hobby website is a job. But the kicker is…I am now doing the backend GOMI crap. I am starting to deal with a lot of legal crap. I am still doing all the user service crap 24/7. Not to mention how much time I spend trying to be a part of this community.

Not complaining, I’m just pondering aloud here. I’ve never thought GOMI would make me rich and I know myself enough to know I could never do it full time – I need a reason to shower and leave my apartment so I’d have to continue doing something on site at least 3 days a week.

As I said this is something I’m thinking about for maybe 3 months from now. Do you think GOMI deserves more of my attention? What if I slept more and had more time to post/improve server performance/respond to your emails? I’m not like oh I’m going to blog full time and get interns…I’m just thinking maybe working on site 3 days a week instead of 5 might give me time to do stuff for GOMI.

And then there’s the whole ‘turning into what you mock’ aspect. Do you guys think that would happen to me? Or do you guys think GOMI would improve if I spent more time on it?

I haven’t made a big to do about this yet, but Adam and I are moving into a new house and my mind has moved from clothes to paint colors and fabric swatches. I have nearly zero interest in what I’m wearing these days and I’ll probably take a couple of days off to focus on cleaning and painting at the new place instead of my daily outfit.  If you’re interested in that sort of thing, Adam and I are relaunching That’s Quirky to document the whole process. The site is set to go live in early June and in the meantime, follow along with us on facebook.

Well, Messy, you’re definitely not the only one with zero interest in what you’re wearing these days. I can’t really be bothered to get my snark up for Messica the past few months since there’s only so many ways you can say FAIL, but I’ll be watching this relaunch with semi-drunken interest since That’s Quirky was such a downer before. (I think she thought they’d get into a house the instant they moved from NYC and now 10 years later or whatever, she finally is.)

Unofficial poll time! What do you think the chances are that she’ll merge What I Wore into That’s Quirky and call it a day? After all, more and more fashion/style bloggers are being forced to create lifestyle content to keep up with the Cupcakes & Cashmeres of the world. Does she have the ability to keep content up on two blogs? I doubt it. After all, this is the girl who spends five hours answering emails.