this is why we use alarm clocks, class...
or "alarm cocks", as I so cleverly typoed to JT ...
it was like ... oh... 10pm? I slept from then til.. about 5am. I honestly didn't think I'd need that much sleep, so I left the alarm off.
you know...the earth didn't break. things are okay. i'm okay. and I even managed to pitch last night... lol... to my ex-manager of all people. He laughed when I told him I hadn't felt like coming to the door because I wasn't in proper salesperson mode.
"When are you -not- in the zone? LIke I care about clothes -- you're the only person I want for my project"
and I was like... d'awwwwwwwwww. but i cheered loudly on the inside because what he wants me to do is ... um, how do I put it? profitable for us both. in a major way. it's a risky longshot type of thing (more for him than me), but if I'm even half right about the results... I'll be carrying home a very large commission next year :)
i know. 5am and my post doesn't make sense. and I'm yawning. so apparently...I don't know if I should go back to bed or what...
I want to try to do something before sleep claims me again... I get so groggy during the day that I don't even know... work-related would be best, so I can actually sit and do fangirl stuff for a change -- THOUGH!
I should be more available this weekend -- I'm clearing through my queue very nicely... I might just stay up and call myself an early morning riser. not like i can't just roll back to sleep (which is tempting the daylights outta me!)
need to update so much. i'll probably end up spamming the hell out of everyone that has me on alerts, but it'll be like fangirl christmas and shit! everyone likes that! XD
and winamp....i can't even....not sure if I know "what them girls like" anymore, but I'm not afraid to find out...*strikes a stance*
god, somebody keep me away from...
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fanficrants
fanficrants
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wikipedia
my time... my time would SKYROCKET if I could keep my happy ass off those timesink sites. oh yeah... and youtube. oh god, it's bad when my CEO-type is even linking me to shit during the day. "I know you're busy, but this will only take a moment!" - *link link link*
it's not like i'm totally undisciplined -- clearly, I've been balancing both. but for efficiency's sake... damn everything.
I found $2 in bus fare -- *twirls* that makes me excruciatingly happy ...because that saves me a walk down to the store just to figbht with the clerk about it...haha. I am slowly building a bus fare stash - tgho i might try to call today and figure out who I gotta make the money order to for a monthly pass. it's $25 for the monthly pass, compared to $2 for everytime I want to take the bus. Therefore...I would need to take the bus at least 12 times in the month to avoid "breakage"...
*tries to think on how to explain* --- breakage is the business/marketing (can't think of another word for it) aspect of why unlimited passes work -- hell, anything unlimited in theory. while there's always going to be the GET EVERYTHING YOU CAN types (I am one of them, because I believe in using something to the fullest) but many people will use something a few times and ignore it (which is the way I am sometimes with the other things I have unlimited access to)
I think what I'm going to do ...
+ stay up
+ edit Client G's current articles and turn them in (poor soul has been waiting forever)
+ clean up (actually wash, dry, and flatiron my hair, who knew? ...maybe. then again, I might just throw my hair back into a 'tail and continue on my merry way - this fangirl is outta makeup anyway)
+ start washing clothes (I wash clothes by hand, remember -- I am going into town to get more clothespins and clothesline... I'm addicted to how beautiful my clothes come out now!)
+ check in with my CEO (he works more daytime than I do, and I need to make sure that the chessboard is as sturdy as I left it)
+ attend to client A's 7500 words -- shouldn't be more than a quick 2 hour writing fest for that guy.
+ take the bus into town
+ get stuff from town (salsa, cheese, milk, a few loaves of crusty french while I wait for my bread dough to be ready)
+ make a sourdough starter
I also talked to JT about playing the saver's game again... basically, what we do is make up a list of things we want to buy ahead of time -- combine it all into a big fat list -- and then break it down into small goals.
For example:
I want a kitchenaid mixer (and zealy isn't helping matters since she owns one already!!) -- the Artisan, I think? It's a $330 mixer (I'm goin' off the MSRP and not the fact that it's offered elsewhere for less -- dunno)
OK then. So my mini-goal would be the mixer and I'd set it up in my system as such. :) Then it becomes a game of saving to move that percentage closer towards goal (getting the mixer) -- I might pick up an extra project, sell something on ebay (I do have a camera now, yay, tho my memory card might need replacing blaaah) -- whatever it takes to get to my extra goodies :)
I'd set it up at first at $0 / $330 in the book. If I scored an extra quickie gig (I have a lot of those, actually - a quick 5-15minute project that gives me about $30 or so) -- I throw it into the mixer fund (assuming I'm not playing catchup on bills) -- then it turns into 30/330 ... if I get a good rolling streak, I may end a week with like 135 / 330 (41% towards goal!!!)
I know. it's corny. but it keeps my spending in check so... *waves hand around* that's all that matters .
shopping list @ store ... hmm. I pretty much have everything I want for baking purposes (picked up more vanilla flavoring mmm) probably more english muffins (god i love those), more cream cheese (again, love breakfast food), another bag of cheese, salsa & chips (because I always crave snackage ...), ground beef to make meatloaf (mmm, warm and tasty and will last most of the week! - perfect for sandwiches too!)
is it bad that I've even written down all the prices of the stuff I know I'm getting? *sighs* I don't mind being a conservative spender, but I always feel weird because ...like, JT? he's such a spender, I wish I could loosen up like that.
Did I mention how much I love hanging out with y'all? I mean... I'm not well versed in making friends and all, but y'all are the best fangirls I could ask for -- anybody that can distract me from work and make me enjoy it is top notch quality in my book :)
edit one - ZOMG! There's fanfic for Leverage, one of my favorite shows! Hot diggity damn! (and I ship Parker/Hardison, Nate/Sophie, Hardison/Eliot, Eliot/Sophie, Eliot ...well damn, Eliot is the neighborhood bicycle in my Leverage fantasies...he's super pairable... and ahh, shipping goggles activated everywhere!)
it was like ... oh... 10pm? I slept from then til.. about 5am. I honestly didn't think I'd need that much sleep, so I left the alarm off.
you know...the earth didn't break. things are okay. i'm okay. and I even managed to pitch last night... lol... to my ex-manager of all people. He laughed when I told him I hadn't felt like coming to the door because I wasn't in proper salesperson mode.
"When are you -not- in the zone? LIke I care about clothes -- you're the only person I want for my project"
and I was like... d'awwwwwwwwww. but i cheered loudly on the inside because what he wants me to do is ... um, how do I put it? profitable for us both. in a major way. it's a risky longshot type of thing (more for him than me), but if I'm even half right about the results... I'll be carrying home a very large commission next year :)
i know. 5am and my post doesn't make sense. and I'm yawning. so apparently...I don't know if I should go back to bed or what...
I want to try to do something before sleep claims me again... I get so groggy during the day that I don't even know... work-related would be best, so I can actually sit and do fangirl stuff for a change -- THOUGH!
I should be more available this weekend -- I'm clearing through my queue very nicely... I might just stay up and call myself an early morning riser. not like i can't just roll back to sleep (which is tempting the daylights outta me!)
need to update so much. i'll probably end up spamming the hell out of everyone that has me on alerts, but it'll be like fangirl christmas and shit! everyone likes that! XD
and winamp....i can't even....not sure if I know "what them girls like" anymore, but I'm not afraid to find out...*strikes a stance*
god, somebody keep me away from...
tvtropes.org
fanficrants
fanficrants
fanficrants
wikipedia
my time... my time would SKYROCKET if I could keep my happy ass off those timesink sites. oh yeah... and youtube. oh god, it's bad when my CEO-type is even linking me to shit during the day. "I know you're busy, but this will only take a moment!" - *link link link*
it's not like i'm totally undisciplined -- clearly, I've been balancing both. but for efficiency's sake... damn everything.
I found $2 in bus fare -- *twirls* that makes me excruciatingly happy ...because that saves me a walk down to the store just to figbht with the clerk about it...haha. I am slowly building a bus fare stash - tgho i might try to call today and figure out who I gotta make the money order to for a monthly pass. it's $25 for the monthly pass, compared to $2 for everytime I want to take the bus. Therefore...I would need to take the bus at least 12 times in the month to avoid "breakage"...
*tries to think on how to explain* --- breakage is the business/marketing (can't think of another word for it) aspect of why unlimited passes work -- hell, anything unlimited in theory. while there's always going to be the GET EVERYTHING YOU CAN types (I am one of them, because I believe in using something to the fullest) but many people will use something a few times and ignore it (which is the way I am sometimes with the other things I have unlimited access to)
I think what I'm going to do ...
+ stay up
+ edit Client G's current articles and turn them in (poor soul has been waiting forever)
+ clean up (actually wash, dry, and flatiron my hair, who knew? ...maybe. then again, I might just throw my hair back into a 'tail and continue on my merry way - this fangirl is outta makeup anyway)
+ start washing clothes (I wash clothes by hand, remember -- I am going into town to get more clothespins and clothesline... I'm addicted to how beautiful my clothes come out now!)
+ check in with my CEO (he works more daytime than I do, and I need to make sure that the chessboard is as sturdy as I left it)
+ attend to client A's 7500 words -- shouldn't be more than a quick 2 hour writing fest for that guy.
+ take the bus into town
+ get stuff from town (salsa, cheese, milk, a few loaves of crusty french while I wait for my bread dough to be ready)
+ make a sourdough starter
I also talked to JT about playing the saver's game again... basically, what we do is make up a list of things we want to buy ahead of time -- combine it all into a big fat list -- and then break it down into small goals.
For example:
I want a kitchenaid mixer (and zealy isn't helping matters since she owns one already!!) -- the Artisan, I think? It's a $330 mixer (I'm goin' off the MSRP and not the fact that it's offered elsewhere for less -- dunno)
OK then. So my mini-goal would be the mixer and I'd set it up in my system as such. :) Then it becomes a game of saving to move that percentage closer towards goal (getting the mixer) -- I might pick up an extra project, sell something on ebay (I do have a camera now, yay, tho my memory card might need replacing blaaah) -- whatever it takes to get to my extra goodies :)
I'd set it up at first at $0 / $330 in the book. If I scored an extra quickie gig (I have a lot of those, actually - a quick 5-15minute project that gives me about $30 or so) -- I throw it into the mixer fund (assuming I'm not playing catchup on bills) -- then it turns into 30/330 ... if I get a good rolling streak, I may end a week with like 135 / 330 (41% towards goal!!!)
I know. it's corny. but it keeps my spending in check so... *waves hand around* that's all that matters .
shopping list @ store ... hmm. I pretty much have everything I want for baking purposes (picked up more vanilla flavoring mmm) probably more english muffins (god i love those), more cream cheese (again, love breakfast food), another bag of cheese, salsa & chips (because I always crave snackage ...), ground beef to make meatloaf (mmm, warm and tasty and will last most of the week! - perfect for sandwiches too!)
is it bad that I've even written down all the prices of the stuff I know I'm getting? *sighs* I don't mind being a conservative spender, but I always feel weird because ...like, JT? he's such a spender, I wish I could loosen up like that.
Did I mention how much I love hanging out with y'all? I mean... I'm not well versed in making friends and all, but y'all are the best fangirls I could ask for -- anybody that can distract me from work and make me enjoy it is top notch quality in my book :)
edit one - ZOMG! There's fanfic for Leverage, one of my favorite shows! Hot diggity damn! (and I ship Parker/Hardison, Nate/Sophie, Hardison/Eliot, Eliot/Sophie, Eliot ...well damn, Eliot is the neighborhood bicycle in my Leverage fantasies...he's super pairable... and ahh, shipping goggles activated everywhere!)