Tag: day job

  • In honor of the new month, I created a new masthead, just like I do… every month. :P I also decided to archive all the previous mastheads, because I like them, and who knows, maybe someone else will too. This month’s tagline (“let the poverty begin”) is in honor of my new part-time schedule, which…

  • Yesterday’s decor8 featured a great post titled “Career Advice for Creatives”, which is intended for designers but really applies to anyone in any field: I decided that the comfort of income wasn’t as important as the comfort of a joyful, happy spirit. I wanted to regain joy and the steady income wasn’t doing it so…

  • Fyi

    First my dog beat me up, then he wouldn’t go poo. Today I was a very sad dog-momma indeed. — For the past couple of weeks I have been fairly vague about an “upcoming change” in my life, an “edge of the cliff,” so to speak. Well, as an angsty teen I thrived on that…

  • Now what?

    So you know how you think you’ve got something all figured out? Like, you’re choosing between A and B, and it’s a really hard choice, but you finally pick one, and you put a lot of effort into getting comfortable with that decision, and then all of a sudden C comes into the picture, and…

  • Um, do you know how much it would cost to ship yourself to North Carolina from Ohio via FedEx Priority Overnight? FIVE HUNDRED TWENTY SEVEN DOLLARS! Five. Two. Seven. HUNDRED. And that’s only if you weigh FIFTEEN pounds. Yeah, needless to say, I asked the FedEx clerk if we could try another, cheaper service, because…