It's the weekend, right?

Happy weekend, everyone.

It's been an unusual week here in my corner of the Greater Chicago Area.

I suppose the week following a holiday time-out feels a bit "off" for many folks. This however felt absolutely turned upside down and then shaken up a bit for good measure.

It started with the week not officially beginning until when I awoke Wednesday afternoon after co-driving all night into Wednesday morning. Wednesday was a wash. I felt completely drained and lacked anything resembling energy and thus motivation.

Though the boys did a good job on their own for 5 days, I'm fussy enough if it's not how would have done it, I do it over. They were at school and work so they were not aware of this, hence no bruised feelings. Besides, they both seemed really grateful that the cook (spouse) was back to magically produce a hot meal each evening after restocking the fridge.

Anyway, it's hard to know where to begin again online but for me and my dream of Disneyland it has to be getting back to work. So I jumped right in only to find a major malfunction at IZEA, preventing me from doing much work. Goggle helpfully stepped in and let their algo monkeys out too which further confused things.

The dust with IZEA finally settled yesterday. Despite my respect for the IZEA team there's no escaping the fact that this fix was slow coming and that it's time to hire staff that can be paged during non-work hours and at least assess the situation. According to what was stated by an IZEA rep they had all left for the day and it would wait until morning. Unfortunately, morning came and went two more times before a final fix was rendered.

All is good at the moment however as I just got an independent offer to write for an advertiser! It's my first one--and in truth I never even tried to do this aspect of blogging because it seemed rather pie in the sky. However it's happened for real. I'm jazzed actually because it means someone took notice of my work and sought it out specifically.

Comments

[Cyn]

@Dan
Aww, thank you! *blush*

[Dan]

Congrats on the writing assignment. I'm not surprised that you're sought after — you have a special touch on the keyboard.