Happy Day! Happy Day! I feel as if a huge weight has been lifted off of me today. I haven't been working for the past couple of weeks due to an unexpected lull in my schedule and it has been great! I've had so much work over the past 3 months that I've felt as if I was drowning. The two weeks off was so needed, but now I'm ready to dive back in. It's strange how I complain about having too much work but when I'm taking time off I feel like I'm being bad. Well, no worry because the work now resumes. Oddly, that makes me happy...
Other things that make me happy today:
1. I booked our airline tickets for our holiday trip to California. I have been so stressed out about this because of the major dent that it would make in our savings account. I started looking for flights two months ago, back when the prices were really low ($200 a ticket) but for some stupid reason I didn't buy them. So now, the ticket prices have more than doubled and we had to book them before the price went even higher. The past week I have been online searching every known travel site in the hopes of finding a deal- any deal. Last night it became apparent that we were just going to have to break down and spend nearly a grand for our tickets. It was a sad evening in our home. But, lo and behold! What arrived in my email today? A major discounted airfare alert!!!! Yippppeeeee! I was able to book our tickets at a price that didn't result in the demise of our savings account!!!! Bruno doesn't know yet, but he will be ecstatic when I tell him!!!
2. I turned down a job offer from a prospective client today. It would have been a great opportunity but I just didn't want it. I don't have the time that the project would require nor the desire to work on such a project. I've been going back and forth agonizing over the job for weeks now and finally just decided to say no. And what a huge relief that turned out to be! But once I made the decision, I had to break it to the client. I have been so scared to do this (why? Are they going to yell at me or ground me???) but I forced myself to make the call this morning. Guess what? It was no big deal. They were disappointed but that was it. So I am now off the hook!!! Another Yipppppeeeee!
3. One of my clients has a contact person that I hate dealing with and today they were fired!!! (Gigi does a happy dance!) This person has backstabbed me on more than one occasion while pretending to be my biggest supporter to my face. He changes everything that I write and gives me input on every move I make. He would send me long faxes detailing the "problems" with projects that I have turned in, explaining the right way and wrong way to do things. Of course, my way was always the wrong way. This person has treated me so poorly that my husband would like to kick his butt, and Bruno is non-violent by nature. I am so happy that he is now gone. There is justice in this world!
4. I picked up a new project that I have wanted for a while. It involves more designing than I do in most of my work and I am really excited to be able to flex my creativity! I love it when my work is fun!
I think that about sums up my happy day. Sometimes the stars are aligned in such a way that the heavens just smile down on me. I can't explain it. I won't even try to understand it. I'll just focus on savoring it while it lasts....
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