it took a lot of work to be the ass that i am
oh diary, remember when i thought it was a good idea to be a full-time student, stay-at-home mother, and have three jobs? present day me would like to time travel and reason with past me.
job 1 = dechoes on sunday, and selling stuff for kerri on ebay.
job 2 = server at napasorn thai restaurant.
job 3 = the most important to me, photographer and digital editing extraordinaire.
my latest task for job 3 has been... i don't even have the words. i shot a wedding for this couple, mailed out their pictures, and received a call from the bride complaining that she looked fat in her pictures... but that it was somehow MY fault.... it's a long boring story, but let me just tell you that this lady is terrible. terrible. from the day of her wedding, to the climax of terrible she put me through today, this lady has been trouble and stress for me. we ended up arranging a deal where i would edit however many photos she wanted, she just had to let me know which images so i could quote her a price. she ended up just picking one, but she wanted a lot of work done to it. for the quoted price i agreed that i would make her prints for her, five 13x19 prints, and four 8x10's, and i would also put the before and after picture on cd for her. my quote was $250, which we both decided was fair. so today i met with her, exchanged goods for a check, and i went on my merry way so happy to finally be rid of this lady. 15 minutes later i receive a call saying that she needed to return the pictures because her husband was furious that she spent that much for the job. i told her that even if she were to return the pictures, she can't return the time i spent working on them, and therefore i didn't really think what she was trying to do was fair to me. about 2 minutes after hanging up with her i decide to go to bank of america and just try to cash the check. she had already put a stop payment on it!! she calls me again saying she will pay me $75 for everything (which i have about $50 invested into this for expenses already), and i tell her that's unfair. we had already discussed the price before i ever did the work, you know? it's not like i just threw this figure at her at the last minute. so i talked to my grandfather about this, he owns a successful accounting business, and he tells me that she's just committed civil fraud and that i can sue for triple damages! he told me it's happened to him six times, and that he's won all six cases. somebody's getting some comeuppances...
on top of that? i rushed to finish the job for her during the week of finals. i can't wait until this week is over.
some good news? all of my places of employment are family owned and less than 5 minutes away. i've been riding my bike. two of my friends, austin and josh, moved away... which is not good news, but the good news is that austin gave me his owl collection, and josh sold me his macbook. mama has the cs3 series and i'm so excited about it!! he also left all of his music on here, and gave me some books too. um, what else... elliott is 9 months old today. he has an appointment with his new pediatrician on monday who will not kick me out of the practice for refusing to immunize. i think i'm going to have a's in all three of my classes.
i am oh so very sleepy, night.
job 1 = dechoes on sunday, and selling stuff for kerri on ebay.
job 2 = server at napasorn thai restaurant.
job 3 = the most important to me, photographer and digital editing extraordinaire.
my latest task for job 3 has been... i don't even have the words. i shot a wedding for this couple, mailed out their pictures, and received a call from the bride complaining that she looked fat in her pictures... but that it was somehow MY fault.... it's a long boring story, but let me just tell you that this lady is terrible. terrible. from the day of her wedding, to the climax of terrible she put me through today, this lady has been trouble and stress for me. we ended up arranging a deal where i would edit however many photos she wanted, she just had to let me know which images so i could quote her a price. she ended up just picking one, but she wanted a lot of work done to it. for the quoted price i agreed that i would make her prints for her, five 13x19 prints, and four 8x10's, and i would also put the before and after picture on cd for her. my quote was $250, which we both decided was fair. so today i met with her, exchanged goods for a check, and i went on my merry way so happy to finally be rid of this lady. 15 minutes later i receive a call saying that she needed to return the pictures because her husband was furious that she spent that much for the job. i told her that even if she were to return the pictures, she can't return the time i spent working on them, and therefore i didn't really think what she was trying to do was fair to me. about 2 minutes after hanging up with her i decide to go to bank of america and just try to cash the check. she had already put a stop payment on it!! she calls me again saying she will pay me $75 for everything (which i have about $50 invested into this for expenses already), and i tell her that's unfair. we had already discussed the price before i ever did the work, you know? it's not like i just threw this figure at her at the last minute. so i talked to my grandfather about this, he owns a successful accounting business, and he tells me that she's just committed civil fraud and that i can sue for triple damages! he told me it's happened to him six times, and that he's won all six cases. somebody's getting some comeuppances...
on top of that? i rushed to finish the job for her during the week of finals. i can't wait until this week is over.
some good news? all of my places of employment are family owned and less than 5 minutes away. i've been riding my bike. two of my friends, austin and josh, moved away... which is not good news, but the good news is that austin gave me his owl collection, and josh sold me his macbook. mama has the cs3 series and i'm so excited about it!! he also left all of his music on here, and gave me some books too. um, what else... elliott is 9 months old today. he has an appointment with his new pediatrician on monday who will not kick me out of the practice for refusing to immunize. i think i'm going to have a's in all three of my classes.
i am oh so very sleepy, night.