Monday, April 20, 2020
Today is one of those days. I worked so hard the past three days to get all my March journal posts completed, today I do not want to write. I have made ridiculous mistakes while working so far today, and the day is still young. It is still a great day; it is simply less great than other great days.
On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays I usually start the day with editing a video for my seven-year-old’s, Mika, YouTube channel. On Monday, I edit Mika’s Wednesday video, which is often nice and short. This week it will end up nice and short, but we recorded it a few times to get a good flow, so it took me awhile to edit the video because I needed to watch several takes. When I finished editing the video, I clicked the button to save the project as a video and… the program froze and… I did not save the project before I hit the save as a video button.
If you did not follow my path, I lost the work I had just done. It is my own fault. I know the program occasionally freezes when I click the save as button, so I try to remember to save the project before I click the save as button. I am a human who forgets frequently, so somedays I get to do my work twice (today is someday). On the bright side, I did remember the clips I had chosen the first time and did not need to watch each take again. Mika’s video was completed again and saved in a timely manner.
Later today, Mika was playing with the coins in her coin bank and noticed the Georgia state quarter. Mika asked me why it had a “butt fruit” on the back. I looked at the quarter and, sure enough, the peach does look a bit like a bootie. I am fairly sure from now on whenever Mika sees a Georgia state quarter, she will continue to call it a butt fruit quarter. I will need to take Mika to a grocery store this summer to see if she thinks an actual peach is a butt fruit in real life.
Wednesday last week I accepted a new, one-project client. I am not actively seeking new clients and do not plan to accept any new long-term clients, but I am willing to work for someone new on a one-and-done or short-time project. My new client emailed me a couple of weeks ago asking if I thought my online social media training was a good fit for her. I asked her what she wanted to learn and told her my online training did not line up with what she was looking for. My new client emailed me last week asking how much custom training would cost for what she wanted, and we agreed on a price. Tomorrow we will have a Zoom call to nail down the particulars of our agreement.
A week ago, I watched an episode of God Friended Me, and I keep moving the thought to another day because I run out room and I do try to keep my writings to a single page. Today, I have room! In the show the main character’s sister, Ally, has started chemotherapy treatment for breast cancer. In this episode, Ally had a clump of hair come off her head. Ally promptly shaved her head to rock her bald head. The scene reminded me of when my hair started falling out after I started the slash and burn chemotherapy.
Megan, my older daughter, was combing my hair about two weeks after my first chemotherapy treatment and she told me more hair was combing out than usual. A few minutes later I hear her say, “Oops!” I asked Megan if a clump of hair fell out and she said, “Nooooo.” In a tone that convinced me she was lying. I saw Megan close her hand to keep me from seeing the clump in her fist. Megan was concerned I would be upset when I actually started seeing my hair fall out. Two weeks later I was bald; I rocked my bald head.
My piece of advice to you is to let your children lie to you sometimes. I use a quote in my social media now that I wrote after the day my hair really started falling out and Megan lied to me. “You know your child really loves you when they will lie to your face to protect your feelings.”
Until next time,
Susanne
Please check out my GoFundMe page.
Today is one of those days. I worked so hard the past three days to get all my March journal posts completed, today I do not want to write. I have made ridiculous mistakes while working so far today, and the day is still young. It is still a great day; it is simply less great than other great days.
On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays I usually start the day with editing a video for my seven-year-old’s, Mika, YouTube channel. On Monday, I edit Mika’s Wednesday video, which is often nice and short. This week it will end up nice and short, but we recorded it a few times to get a good flow, so it took me awhile to edit the video because I needed to watch several takes. When I finished editing the video, I clicked the button to save the project as a video and… the program froze and… I did not save the project before I hit the save as a video button.
If you did not follow my path, I lost the work I had just done. It is my own fault. I know the program occasionally freezes when I click the save as button, so I try to remember to save the project before I click the save as button. I am a human who forgets frequently, so somedays I get to do my work twice (today is someday). On the bright side, I did remember the clips I had chosen the first time and did not need to watch each take again. Mika’s video was completed again and saved in a timely manner.
Later today, Mika was playing with the coins in her coin bank and noticed the Georgia state quarter. Mika asked me why it had a “butt fruit” on the back. I looked at the quarter and, sure enough, the peach does look a bit like a bootie. I am fairly sure from now on whenever Mika sees a Georgia state quarter, she will continue to call it a butt fruit quarter. I will need to take Mika to a grocery store this summer to see if she thinks an actual peach is a butt fruit in real life.
Wednesday last week I accepted a new, one-project client. I am not actively seeking new clients and do not plan to accept any new long-term clients, but I am willing to work for someone new on a one-and-done or short-time project. My new client emailed me a couple of weeks ago asking if I thought my online social media training was a good fit for her. I asked her what she wanted to learn and told her my online training did not line up with what she was looking for. My new client emailed me last week asking how much custom training would cost for what she wanted, and we agreed on a price. Tomorrow we will have a Zoom call to nail down the particulars of our agreement.
A week ago, I watched an episode of God Friended Me, and I keep moving the thought to another day because I run out room and I do try to keep my writings to a single page. Today, I have room! In the show the main character’s sister, Ally, has started chemotherapy treatment for breast cancer. In this episode, Ally had a clump of hair come off her head. Ally promptly shaved her head to rock her bald head. The scene reminded me of when my hair started falling out after I started the slash and burn chemotherapy.
Megan, my older daughter, was combing my hair about two weeks after my first chemotherapy treatment and she told me more hair was combing out than usual. A few minutes later I hear her say, “Oops!” I asked Megan if a clump of hair fell out and she said, “Nooooo.” In a tone that convinced me she was lying. I saw Megan close her hand to keep me from seeing the clump in her fist. Megan was concerned I would be upset when I actually started seeing my hair fall out. Two weeks later I was bald; I rocked my bald head.
My piece of advice to you is to let your children lie to you sometimes. I use a quote in my social media now that I wrote after the day my hair really started falling out and Megan lied to me. “You know your child really loves you when they will lie to your face to protect your feelings.”
Until next time,
Susanne
Please check out my GoFundMe page.