Oh, one other thing. Go to my new online city: http://fizzlebeef.myminicity.com

The name is tribute to of one of my more favorite episodes of MST ever.

Oh yes here I am again. I'd be using WordPress if not for my abominable web hosting service. I can't believe I've been recommending it to people for years. Anyhow more on that later.

Going to sum up the past few months in a poem:

Got tickets to launch
weather was bad
Decided to stay home
missed it so was sad

Had a week off
It really didn't matter
It'd been two years since
And I think I just got fatter?

I went on a diet
It really did work
But I fell off hard
I feel like a dork

I got a new job
That was neat
Doing web design
Is quite a feat

Just had an illness
It was a blast
But the holidays are here
So illness; blow it out your ass!

Welcome to today, the first day of the rest of your life.

Wow... Where the hell did time go?

Changes are a coming

So, I have decided that after being a total slacker for the past two years, I'm ready to step up my game and live up to my potential. Won't my teachers be so proud. This means a job change which is always a big pile of fun. I feel more confident professionally than I ever have before. It's tricky though, I want to take the career to the next level without sacrificing my family. What's a momma to do? I think that having Aidan has completed what I want to accomplish on a personal level. Loving Husband-Check, two kiddos-Check, Kick ass friends-Check. So now I feel like I am coming out of the limbo we've been in for the past few years. This is my first blog, so I'm still feeling out this whole writing down thoughts thing. I'll post some more soon.

HOW..THE..HELL..

Could I forget to mention that we got tickets to the next Space Shuttle launch? Well we did, myself, my son and mother are all headed to KSC for the 10/23/07 launch of Discovery (STS-120). Our tickets are the best you can buy, period. We can't get better seats unless we're astronauts or related to one. We'll be 6.0 miles from the pad which is plenty close to experience the awesome power of this vehicle. It'll be great for my son to experience something some awesome at that age. His imagination will go wild. I hope it goes up and more than anything I hope they're safe on the way up.

Now... until the next orbit.

*click*

Where the hell did I go?!

Here I am! Between real job and pseudo side job and the job of being a parent, who has time for these silly blog things? Well here's an update. My diet/exercise is going well and I've dropped a pound or two, pants are a smidge looser. That's most excellent. Everyone is healthy for the most part minus some sniffles. Ok I lied. I had a sinus infection a couple of weeks ago, sucked a big one. Better now mostly. I hate those. But everyone else is pretty good.

Yellow jacket update: They dieded. I WIN!

Other updates, nothing really fascinating I'm afraid. Playing a little too much WoW ... again. Shocker I know.

One thing I have fun doing is going to Youtube to debate the moon landing conspiracy theorists. They're so frickin' gullible. Maybe I'm gullible for thinking they are? Maybe it's all a conspiracy against me!! Nah, they're completely nuts. I'm just mostly nuts!

Well, until the next orbit.
Push the button...

*click*

Freelance

Who needs it?!

I'm sick of side work. Honestly I am. I'm dealing with mostly loose deadlines but between two children, full time work and trying to stay healthy, it's madness. I'm locking myself in the basement at night only to want to break out. One client is worth it, the other isn't too bad and another is on the fence. Added up those it's little things that are driving me mad. A little change here and there, so on and so forth. ARGH!

So here I am, listening to the radio. The radio host is going over statistics on the wedding industry. It's BOOMING. I just recently relented to an attempt to get into the wedding video business. It was stupid. I rushed in half prepared, really wanting to try and make extra money for our second child that is here now. While it was fun to hang out with my friends doing the 2-3 freebies for the exposure, overall, it was blah. What the hell was I thinking? Well I wouldn't have even attempted it if not for, well, I won't get into that.

Suddenly, I'm bitter. What the hell?

Out of all of the projects I've done out of the past year, weddings, side work, etc. Guess how much I've gotten paid, TOTAL. Guess!

I'll round up to $400. I will admit that I'm getting free membership for one project I did/am doing, but that's not a direct monetary payment, still very nice though. So $400... yeah. I read a website on someone in the same situation. They got SO frustrated they just started telling people that in order to create/build something for them it'd cost something outrageous. A logo for example, 1000 dollars, flat out. Yeah, if you want a logo, it's a grand, simple as that. What if you make it HUGE and turn out to be highly successful. That 1000 dollars will be petty at the end of the day. If you go belly up, oh well, should have had a better business plan, but I sure enjoyed yours! :D

So that's what I'm getting at. Because my time at home is invaluable. I'd so much rather spend time with my family than get a measily 20 an hour building a website or something. I'm getting more bitter by the second. Feels good! At any rate a 10 hour job is 200 dollars. That's nice to have in pocket, yes but I've just lost 10 hours of relaxation, doing home chores, family time, etc. Not worth it IMO. So what to do? Up the price! 50 an hour sounds about right... yes, that's 500 dollars, hmm that' a mini-vacation to Kennedy Space Center. Liking this more and more.

Well I'd better work, they're paying me here.

NO MORE (nearly) FREE SHIT!

DCF