Don't feel pressured to, but I think you would make your page much more pleasing to the eye if you placed your ads on the side rather than embedded into your posts.

They will still give you some advertising exposure for AdSense, but they won't get in the way of people trying to read your blog post, and your product promotions in your post won't get lost in the noise.

Just a suggestion, you're kicking ass and taking names either way!