O fortuna
Good money-thing:
• I am paying my taxes in full and on time for the first time since leaving the salaried world five years ago. (I made this announcement weeks ago on Twitter, but then learned I wrote the wrong bank account number on my e-filings. Oops. Today I mailed away some paper checks.)
Bad money-things:
• My relationship with one Appleseed client was sundered suddenly and utterly last month, costing me a lot of money and lost time. For reasons I can't get into here, seeking to recoup the financial losses is not an option, even though I have no culpability in the incident. This results in a financial pinch I will feel for months.
• I spilled coffee on my MacBook last month, damaging it variously. It still technically works, but limps along with half its components blown out and an overheating (and therefore slowed-down) CPU. I've tried to use it anyway for the last few weeks, but am basically out of patience; this is the main tool not just of my creative life but of my day job as well, and my putting off its inevitable replacement is just bleeding away my billable time. Purchasing its replacement adds some extra torque to that financial pinch, though at least I get a better computer out of it.
Compounding all this, these pinches picked a bad time to happen. March was destined to be a low-earning month for me, between a planned DC vacation and then PAX.
On the bright side, at least I can pay for all this. I mucked out my credit card balance enough that I can fill it back up again. This does not delight me, because it means that I will have to put off plans for an I'm-out-of-debt party I was planning on throwing come late summer. But at least I can cope.
• I am paying my taxes in full and on time for the first time since leaving the salaried world five years ago. (I made this announcement weeks ago on Twitter, but then learned I wrote the wrong bank account number on my e-filings. Oops. Today I mailed away some paper checks.)
Bad money-things:
• My relationship with one Appleseed client was sundered suddenly and utterly last month, costing me a lot of money and lost time. For reasons I can't get into here, seeking to recoup the financial losses is not an option, even though I have no culpability in the incident. This results in a financial pinch I will feel for months.
• I spilled coffee on my MacBook last month, damaging it variously. It still technically works, but limps along with half its components blown out and an overheating (and therefore slowed-down) CPU. I've tried to use it anyway for the last few weeks, but am basically out of patience; this is the main tool not just of my creative life but of my day job as well, and my putting off its inevitable replacement is just bleeding away my billable time. Purchasing its replacement adds some extra torque to that financial pinch, though at least I get a better computer out of it.
Compounding all this, these pinches picked a bad time to happen. March was destined to be a low-earning month for me, between a planned DC vacation and then PAX.
On the bright side, at least I can pay for all this. I mucked out my credit card balance enough that I can fill it back up again. This does not delight me, because it means that I will have to put off plans for an I'm-out-of-debt party I was planning on throwing come late summer. But at least I can cope.