Category Archives: Work

Sep16

A Stinking Ball of Crap

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You know when you are all, ‘Help me! I’m drowning in a sea of work!”

And someone is all, “Give me your hand and I will help you out cause I am awesome.”

Then you feel better and stuff, because you can breathe….oh and make your deadline.

Except they send you a stinking ball of crap that is not what you asked for at all….

Thanks….just thanks…..

 

 

Oh and I googled ‘breathe’ looking for a lovely artistic pic to make my point hit home and I found this….

WTF Novartis? Creepy!

Sep13

10 things I love about freelancing!

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1. I make my own hours….kids didn’t let me stop today? No biggie I can stay up late and work!

2. Only putting offers on jobs I want, if something isn’t up my alley then I don’t even think about it.

3. I get paid when I turn my work in, which means no waiting for Friday, if I have something to pay for by next week, I just try to take on more work.

4. Being able to up my rates when I feel like I deserve more. It’s nice to give yourself a raise!

5. I set my own deadlines, most of my clients ask me when I can get something done, so I get to choose how quickly I work on something and what dates work best with my hectic family schedule.

6. Need a vacation? Just stop putting in offers. Then let my few long-term clients know and voila! I’m out.

7. I am learning amazing things about everything. Most jobs require research and usually it is on topics I wouldn’t dream of researching on my own. They are interesting and I feel knowledgeable.

8. No bosses or annoying co-workers, yay!

9. A bad day can be fixed with a snuggle from a lil man because he always somewhere in the house.

10. Not having to wear pants. Or get out of my jammies or take off my sparkly tank top from last night’s party.

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Sep6

10 reasons being a poker wife rocks!

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Ten Things Tuesday

1. Do you know how he bought my engagement ring?

2. …and the umpteen home improvements we have done over the past few years?

3. Sick days are never do or die at our house, with both of us working at home, no one has to take off work and risk their job because the other is out of commission for a week. ( and you actually have time to recover from your illness making it one week long rather than one month long)

4. Equal housework responsibilities.

5. All our kids have the ability to do extracurricular activities since poker is flexible and both parents can run kids around. (Of course more activities can be done with our kids because of awesome grandparents!)

6. Money is usually available whenever you need it because poker is so fluid.

7. We can take awesome vacations whenever we want (as long as finances are good) because he can work from anywhere!

8. I don’t always have to be the bad guy, because we are both there to take turn disciplining the kids.

9. A “woo hoo” from the basement often means ‘We just made a lot of money!’

10. Never missing another Girl’s Night Out or party because Daddy is always home on time, so I can have my social life!

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Aug14

Glad to be of service…..not!

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I WISH! I WISH!

 

….because instead of working on the work I should be doing that has been putting food on our table….

….all I have been doing is housework and playing with the kids and taking care of everything else!

So I wish for no housework, no cooking, no cleaning…but I don’t really want to be a man.

And just please, please let me get my work work done! : )

Jul23

Working the Weekend Away

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Right now, as I spend Friday and Saturday hopped up on caffeine, sugar and anxiety, I wish I would have managed my time better this week.  The life of a freelancer is hard.
I did get my ENTIRE basement organized, all the drawers, closets and cabinets in my ENTIRE house organized, entertained my three kids and found several old pictures (like below), then scanned them in while I avoided getting my articles written.

Now should I blame this on my need for time pressure to write well? Or can I just blame it on my kids making me unfocused? LOL
Either way happy weekend, you’ll find me online for the next 48 hours!  : )
Jul19

Whew!

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http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=mymisaofstaya-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=B004ZZS4CC&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifrSo…..starting up a successful freelancing business is hard work!  I have done it for awhile, but with the baby then the wedding I was only doing a few small things.  The tarot lady kicked my butt into gear and now I am busier than ever!  So much so that I am all written out by the time I think about blogging.

I will leave you with a funny video and a promise that I will do better! : )

Apr4

The Ultimate Par-tay! Come blog with us!

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Ultimate Blog Party 2011

This will be my first year joining the party! When I truly started blogging regularly at the end of last summer I struggled with building a readership. My limited time to network has made it difficult, but now that Daddy Dearest works from home and doesn’t have 2 jobs, I am gonna get on it! LOL

For new readers, here is a little about me:

Hi! I’m Ryan, also known as Ry, Ry-Ry, Shelley, Rockstar(a high school nickname that accompanies my BFF’s nickname Pornstar, silly boys thinking we didn’t know they called us that…oh and my BFF was sweet and innocent and def not in porn, lol) Babe and of course Mommy. I’m coming up on my 30th birthday this summer and I reside in the ever temperamental Midwest USA.

I am a long time unpublished writer and published poet. The whirlwind of college years and babies got me away from writing seriously. I got a ‘grown-up’ job in Corp America where I was used and abused for 8 long years as I tried to be ‘responsible’. Both of my daughters, Gillian (8) and Braeleigh (4), were born during these years of single mom-dom and 60-80 hour work-weeks.

After many complications during my pregnancy with my son Dominik (1), I realized how much I had neglected my daughters. My fiancee and I decided that it was time for me to hang up my ‘working mom’ hat for awhile. It was a good thing we planned for that because my son was born premature leaving me with no choice but to stay home with him.

And thus was born My Misadventures of Stay-At-Mommyhood….so read and enjoy!

Mar23

Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes

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Amidst the upheaval that the RSV virus has thrown our way, our household has been preparing for some big changes.  We found out two weeks ago that my fiancee’s company was letting him go.  It was not something we saw coming and we were completely unprepared.  We have been trying to refinance our house and have been using every spare dime to clean up our credit. Well that idea has been squashed.
I will admit when he told me, my heart fell out of my chest.  I could not keep back the tears which I knew made him feel worse.  Not that I even remotely like the company he worked for, they are terrible. I worked there for 8 years and management treated me horribly.  I miss my friends from there but that’s about it. However, losing the only steady income we have is earth-shaking.
What will we do to pay the mortgage? The utility bills? Car insurance? Oh hell, what will we do about medical insurance? We have a premie son; every cold ends up with us in the doctor’s office if not urgent care or the emergency room.  How will we buy food? We barely make enough to keep the cupboards stocked right now.
After an afternoon of freaking-the-f-out we decided to take this head on.  Jason updated his resume, we posted it on Monster and Careerbuilder, and I started sending his resume in for jobs while he worked during the day.  Can I pause here and mention how excruciating that ‘final two weeks’ is for not only the worker but their family! I could not stand that evil company stealing him for one more minute, since they had thrown us to the sharks yet again. (my leaving the company was based on not only my son being born prematurely but also the amount of offenses racked up by the management, my boss was just a really awful person)(oh and should I mention she is now the site director? WTF?) 
So far in three weeks the only bites we had were from commission only sales positions.  You know, the ones where they slap their logo on you and you hope you can sell some insurance and have a paycheck? No bueno. And not for us.  Well more specifically not for him, he is not a salesperson, it’s not his niche. I have spent hours each day writing cover letters, emailing resumes and faxing over answers to questions but no success.  So we had to talk, if there was going to be a few months of this then we had to have an ‘ in-the-meantime plan or our family would crash and burn. We would lose the house and most likely become swamped by medical bills.
Now the day has come, his last day at work. We are celebrating. We have a plan and tomorrow it goes into motion. Tomorrow Jason is taking his shot at becoming a professional poker player. For those of you that don’t know, he supplements his 9-5 income by playing poker part-time.  He’s pretty damn good too.  He has funded many home improvement projects, bought my engagement ring and since I have stayed at home, he has brought in enough to make our lifestyle comfortable. Maybe a real 9-5 opportunity we can’t pass up will pop up and maybe not.  But we will be going full steam ahead with poker as if there is no other option.
I am also taking on new opportunities too.  I was freelancing for awhile when I was on bedrest and I am taking jobs again.  Having Jason home will give me time to work when he isn’t working, so I can actually contribute.  I have already got a few jobs, one long-term one, so that is going great already. We are looking at this unfornate event as an amazing opportunity to follow our dreams of working from home.  Wish us luck!