I have a writing project I just love. It is paying an insane amount of money. Or so I thought. When I took the job I thought it would take me about an hour and nobody I know makes that kind of hourly wage even the people who don't get paid by the hour (I like to think about all pay as hourly just for fun by the way). I did not factor in inflation. As in, when I take on a creative project I love, my brain inflates with possibilities and I can't stop till it is perfect or my deadline is up. So, now the hourly rate is going lower and lower and by the time it is finished I will probably owe them money.
I can't tell you what the job is yet, cause you would laugh at me (and not in a good way perhaps). It is honorable though ("Dear X, I never thought it would happen to me. There I was at the pool and the cabanna boy...") Anyway, I can tell you I am writing lyrics. (No NOT limericks, LYRICS) and it's for an online company and I am going to be paid now and royalties and weeeee.... but since it is "work for hire' I had thought maybe it would be wise not to give them my best stuff so that if Celine Dion bought it from them and it became a big hit I would not have TWO reasons to cringe every time I heard it (sorry, I'm just not a fan..I don't get it).
Silly me, I should have realized, I always give my best. I just can't help myself, I'm driven. Don't believe me? Ask my family about my behaviour just before dinner was served. It was going to be the BEST thanksgiving dinner or at least I would die trying. I work for praise not pays. (you will see me holding that on a cardboard sign if I ever lose my day job).
That is why, after a marathon cleaning/unpacking session I orchestrated an almost perfect day (see my next blog "Take That Turkey") in our new lovely home. Then tonight at midnight when everyone was asleep, I being too tired to even think about getting up to go to Black Friday at 3:00 (I always stay up late for early bird specials) I lay down to go to sleep.
Then I got ideas for one of the songs. Then I got up and wrote all night.
It occured to me as I was getting ready to sleep at 6:00 a.m., that this is one of the first years I really don't want anything from black friday. Funny, how year after year we get all thankful and then rush out to buy what is missing in our lives. I guess there is not much that is missing in my life and what is missing can't be achieved by standing in a long line outside in the cold dark morning.
Safe and sound in my warm bed with a rumbly tummy (see "Take that Turkey") it occurs to me that even the things that are missing in my life must not be far off or I would not have the luxury of thinking about them, let alone time to blahg to you about them. So if you ask me, I've got it made. (and if I get more work from this job maybe I'll get a maid and have one less thing to not worry about).
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Posted by: eredblula | October 26, 2011 at 01:01 AM