WORK ANXIETY

Most people who have any type of work related anxiety typically have a 9 to 5 job at a brick and mortar establishment. However, a freelancer can have work related anxiety as well. I am experiencing it.

One of the places I freelance for pays ok, but the good part is they pay often. However, they expect a lot and the policies are so inconsistent that you can not be confident that each item you submit will be approved for payment. The people reviewing the work each have their own views about what your content should be and impose those views in their edits. As a result, I feel like it is a crap shoot for approval when I submit content.

This is why a feel axnious each time I attempt to write for this place. This month I really need to get over and get to writing for them because bills need to be paid dammit! Maybe admitting this anxiety will help me get it together. Or maybe I should create another strategy for dealing with this place. Let's see how writing the articles the same manner I would for any other client and then tweaking it for this specific client works?

Experiment is on. Pray for me all.

Geesh!

ETA: I don't edit my blog posts they are just raw how I feel at the moment, though I will spell check.

The Winter Storm That Could?

For the last few days the National Weather Service has reported of another major winter storm set to hit the Mid-Atlantic region Wednesday through Friday with today, Thursday seeing the brunt of it. Residents of Cecil County Maryland and New Castle County Delaware are waiting for this snow. Weather maps show the area covered in a pretty blue color that signifies snow in the area. I have to tell ya folks, this girl has only seen a few flurries so far.

Weather the snow falls or not is not a big deal for me personally. I have to admit this winter has been quite profitable for me. Each time a winter storm watch or warning is issued for the area I write about it and publish it. I rake in revenue fairly quickly on account of it. I have to wonder... is this storm trying to make a significant snowfall only to find out the temperatures may be a little too warm for it?

Right now it is 35 degrees in Elkton, Maryland with very fine precipitation falling. Some times a few flakes fall, but mostly just the liquid stuff. I have a funny image in my head of the snow being the Little Engine That Could, churning along saying, "I think I can! I think I can!" Dropping it's frosty pellets only to have them melt before they hit the ground. Poor little winter storm that could(n't).

I Want My Spring Chicken Back!

I hear people joke about not being a spring chicken anymore as they get older. This statement is true because as we get older, it seems things that were effortless in our teens and twenties require more energy in our thirties and beyond. However, I always had energy for dancing, even being a large woman, I could at least last three songs before I got seriously winded.

This weekend I had an eighties moment listening to David Bowie's "Modern Love" that changed the status quo...

As soon as I heard the song I couldn't help myself, I had to get up and dance. Half-way into the song I could no longer sing along with it! My breathing became labored and I was feeling tired. I kept dancing though I was thinking, "Girl, you better shape up!"