Self-employed, again!

As it should be, I’m quite sure. I’m not quite sure if I quit, they fired me, or a little of both. I was desperate for technical help, after weeks only part of the equipment was working, I’d worked one shift in two weeks and it was looking like that was the scenario going forward. I even went out and bought a PC laptop to use! It was something like “If you cannot help me get all your systems up and running in a week’s time then I’m returning all your equipment.” (I’d had four pleas for help the previous week go unanswered!) When they replied “You have to bring everything back right now or we aren’t going to pay you at all!”—it was quite a shock. Guess dude really didn’t know what he was doing. Sheesh! What an incredible amount of energy I expended on that, all to naught (OK, I made $200 for my trouble but they did not pay my commissions for the hotel rooms I booked. SantaFeHotels.com? Don’t go there!) And it took a month out of my life-- Not to mention stress...just another form of energy suck.

No matter, it was a huge emotional and energy relief to be released from that gig. Something never really felt quite right to me about it--I recognize I was trying to talk myself into it from the beginning and it never quite took. So I certainly talked myself out of it!

Now I am concentrating on the new studio, the commission for the bathtub, getting the gallery going, and the real estate thing. Great things are just down the line. And as soon as I’m through this week’s RE intensive, I’ll get started on the illustrations for Diane’s math book project I signed on for. She’s already out shopping sample chapters which means when she finds a publisher we’ll get some sort of advance to actually allow us to work on this project. And no doubt she’ll find someone, she is PASSIONATE about this project.

Since the gallery room won’t really be ready to open until close to May, if not May, I made an
“Art Studio—open” sign to put out front---I painted 2 of them so you can see it from both ways, only to realize I should have said “Artist’s Studio--Open”—but something is better than nothing and it’ll do for just now. I may put one sign out while fixing the other.

I had a really weird dream last night, but as dreams are mainly symbolic, I took it as a strong signal not to traipse down the wrong path for want, but to stay strong and true to my real goals, our needs, and my talents. And somehow, the proper winds will prevail.

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