A non-quilting post for a change
In slightly less than 2 hours, I will be auditioning for/with a band as a keyboard player/backup singer. Oh, how the mighty have fallen. I am very grateful that the band is doing really easy songs, because my chops are very very rusty. I don't know that I will do a project with these guys or not, but it's something. And we're rehearsing at the place down the road.
I've been doing a lot of quilting, because it's relaxing from the madness that is work, and it's a very creative outlet for me. And I'm getting good at it. The quilt store owner where I've been buying fabric seems to be very impressed - she asks me if I've got an art or design degree and stuff like that.
As far as work goes, I am going to need to do a lot of prep work before I am really ready to strike out on my own or seriously look for another job that won't simply be a rerun of what I hate about this job. I just wish that R's income was more steady so that I could comfortably take a few months off to learn Flash and create the online portfolio that I have in my head, and to get the real freelance business up and running. It could take maybe 6 months to a year before I've established a client base that will support us properly. It may take longer than that, but I don't think I have the luxury of more than 6 months with spotty income (right now, I don't have anything close to that sort of cushion at our current expenditure level).
In the meantime, I have to finish that quilt, and find a chiropractor to fix this sciatica issue that's cropped up recently, and create written instructions for the quilt (and possibly have the pattern and instructions printed up to sell online and in stores), and take care of some other mundane stuff (like dental visits, et c.)
I re-read some of my stories that aren't finished. Some of them are pretty good. Some are not so great. I seem to be able to write some really good opening paragraphs, and then...
Meh.