www.inkthinkerblog.com — After I got back from a successful check-retrieval trip to the post office, my husband and I had this conversation:
Me: Babe, guess what came in the mail today.
Him: Oh, was it that check you were waiting for?
Me: Yeah, new glasses and a piano.
Him: Great! Anything else coming in this week?
Me: Yup, the rest of the summer semester.
Do you find that you, too, look at your freelancing income as representing what you’re going to do with it rather than money you’ve earned?
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Oh yeah! It seems like my checks are assigned a specific purpose before they even arrive. Let’s see, the thing I got was my horse’s gelding. Kind of morbid way to look at it, in that particular case…
It all depends on the source of the money. Obviously, the proceeds of my contracting (tech and corporate writing) pay the bills and for my daughter’s therapy. My other freelancing — magazines, Web sites, etc. — will either get earmarked for purchases (like the ThinkPad that I’m typing this on) or for my savings account.
My last two checks were three nights at the Schooner Inn and admission to Water Country USA…. ;))
I have a “wish list” of items I want to get and I get one each time a check comes and all of my other bills are paid. I would like a laser printer because I’m getting into more proofreading for presses that want it done on hard copy vs. e-mail and because I’m starting to get interested in sending queries and writing for magazines.
My other wish list items are a dining table and chairs (I have a dining room but all it has in it is a couch and chair – so empty-looking!), a new TV (mine’s from 1998 and will definitely not be compatible once analog goes the way of the dodo), several books (okay, like 300), and some office decor items (framed pics, organizational supplies, etc.) so that I actually want to WORK in my office instead of just jam things in there and shut the door.