What’s on the iPod: After the Gold by Neil Young If you get a chance, head over the About Freelance Writing, where I have a new post. Yesterday I’d had enough of these four walls, which are now steaming thanks to a Southern exposure and 80 degrees. I grabbed the laptop and headed to the…
Tag: just stuff
Long Weekends and Easing into Work
What’s on the iPod: Pride and Joy by Stevie Ray Vaughan Hope you had as nice a weekend as I did. With Friday in my pocket as spare change, the weekend started early. I spent it doing things I wanted to do – driving with the top down, climbing a difficult trail in the park,…
Ouch
What’s on the iPod: Good Arms vs. Bad Arms by Frightened Rabbit Yesterday was an abbreviated day, and thankfully I thought ahead and made sure I didn’t have a ton of work to come home to. I had a biopsy of a thyroid. The actual needle part didn’t hurt – it was the lump-in-the-throat feeling…
Friday Stuff and Ponderings
It’s been a rough week. Emotionally, anyway. Work hasn’t exactly been front-and-center, but it’s probably a good thing. I sat down yesterday afternoon with all intentions of putting together an article for one of my favorite magazines. Instead, I wrote a farewell note to a dying friend, one I haven’t seen in years, but one…
Wheel Spinning
Sometimes you get those weeks where nothing is getting done, don’t you? Yesterday it was a trip to the ER to make sure the chest pains weren’t serious (they weren’t – they seem to be acid reflux, amen). My man came from work to sit with me and showed about the same level of concern…
Disturbances
Thanks one and all for the participation and camaraderie that helped make the 3rd Annual Writers Worth Day a success! I’ve heard from a few writers who have said this day and our efforts have stopped them from taking content mill jobs or jobs beneath their value. In my eyes, that means we’ve reached our…
Sick Days and Work Piles
Busy morning already searching down an odd statistic that I remember reading and saving, but can’t find (figures – I’m usually very careful to bookmark these things). I like being busy, but I’m fending off a cold on top of the recurrent sinus infection, so the world’s a chemically-induced fog at the moment. Spent a…
Thursdays and Deadlines
I have a deadline tomorrow. Technically it’s a Saturday deadline, but I covet my weekends too much to spend them working. I’m here 8-5 every weekday. That should be enough. So I wrote the article and sent it to the editor yesterday. There were a few glitches – one of the contacts, an association, has…
Back to the Wall
I’m back – miss me? Great week with the family members. We did a lot of day trips, one overnight trip, and plenty of restaurants, all filled with laughter, stories, and new memories. I knew myself enough to plan some “me” time alone in front of the computer. But the weirdest thing happened – I…
Things I Can’t Stand (Part Two)
A late post, but blame it on April 15th filing deadlines….. Still on vacation, though it’s feeling more like I’ll need a rest afterward! More things I can’t stand. Feel free to add your own: Estimated taxes. I don’t mind paying them, but the entire estimated tax system is based on one thing – your…