Getting my Adsense approved is exhausting

I first submit an application on Sunday, March 30th and Google Adsense says that it will take two to three days. Unfortunately, sometimes it will take longer. And it's April 24th and I still don't get a word yet

Now I implemented an adcode more than a week ago and it went to idle more than a week later. I implemented another ad code this time after the blog post.

I read that you have to put your ad code in an active page which I recently did. But according to blogging element of the program, you can put your ad code into an HTML gadget in your layout, which I did several times and none of them (well, the recent was made on last Sunday and so far it hasn't receive impressions yet).

What Google Adsense tell me when I first got the early approval email that wasn't in that approval information page is that you have to increase traffic in order to get approved, which is exhausting.

Most people might say it's all about the content and the traffic, although I read most of the posts in the Google Groups indicating that Adsense approve blog/sites that contain less content or less traffic.

So maybe I have to boost traffic in a lot of ways or try to get Adsense approve in a quick pace.