Actually I should call it the lack of Internet experiment a
serious of events has created a domino effect which leaves me without home
Internet until at least October. I say at least because it might not be on by
then. It seems that despite all my efforts my expenses increasing, late
payments and a serious of errors made the Internet a luxury. Yes, I realize the
irony since I use it to work.
The recent confirmation that a particular client understood
perfectly that there was a 9% fee on every payment they sent me and that they
had no intention of covering it made me rethink private clients. It would seem
I was not clear enough that I expect not only the article rate but the fees
incurred to be covered by clients to prevent working for free. I know that I
was not clear enough that I do not care to do work that has four hours of
research and an hour to write the article for a tiny sum. Thanks to no Internet
I am now free from that client. I have made a living without clients before, I
am confident that I can do it again.
In the meantime I intend to take advantage of the Internet
at the therapist office, local library and the Laundromat to work all that I
can. Actually I will be writing without distraction from social networking
sites and putting my work online later. My book is taking priority to get it in
print, so a lot of time is spent searching out things I have already written to
go into it while writing new things to type up into the document. My abandoned
book efforts are going to be re-examined to see where they went wrong and the
characters looked at more closely in the meantime.
ABA therapy while it has been a lifesaver is going to the
waste side sooner than I had thought but I do not have a choice. Fitting it in
was already making money tighter than I would have liked but now if I keep it
my child’s basic needs do not get met. I have to purchase an obscene amount of
supplements, Christmas and birthdays are coming leaving little room for error. There
are still things to be done and items to be purchased before then such as
brakes for the car which at last check came to the tune of $150. Yeah, got to
get those before it gets worse and the price goes up. That would be bad.
I am hoping to get the brakes the first of October, but it
will depend on the rest of the expenses since lights are not an option. I
already have trouble with people making things up so the last thing that I need
is for something to interfere and make them anything other than liars. It would
seem that my dream of moving out of the country and not leaving a forwarding
address is still light years away. I have seen what these people turn children
into, it’s sad to say but enough time with them and children turn into
creatures you would not willingly have in your home. That’s a complaint that is
more appropriate when the child is grown and realizes people are avoiding them.
In the meantime I am going over expenses to see what I can
cut and how much I can manage to earn in the time without Internet. I will at
this point settle for enough to turn the service back on since it will save on
the cost of gas. I am hoping to be able to get my house organized, progress
made on my book and the yard under control in the meantime.
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