Food.
Tuscan turkey burgers, strawberries, melon.
Below there is a lemon mousse torte with white chocolate shavings.
That’s really all I did yesterday: church, cooking and baking, hanging out with my family.
It was worth doing.
I sang a solo in church, but also raced about helping the little girls with their liturgical dance, organizing a practice of the multilingual Lord’s Prayer, and running through the anthem for next week’s early service.
I have a whole bunch of things to do today.
Freelance work.
When you hear that word, do you think of a shabby knight wandering around with his lance, seeking his next meal?
I’ve always done a bit of freelance work on the side along with my fulltime paid jobs. It often keeps the wolf from the door, or at least increases the fun and variety of my work. But I like it to be extra, in addition to the steady amount that makes me sure I can pay the bills.
When Client #2 said he wasn’t in a position to hire someone, but if he were, then he would absolutely hire me, and would I like to some freelance work till then, I was quite pleased. Not quite as pleased as if he had hired me, but pleased.
I’m still looking for fulltime work, obviously, and picking up as many other freelance things as I can. They are being fun, and no more uncertain than job applications. It is exciting to have prospects on the horizon.
I was planning on going around applying in desparation to all the local low-paying jobs today in hopes of having something, anything… However, unemployment insurance pays as much as counter help at Radio Shack are likely to make, and I can spend my time applying, submitting, and pitching for more profitable things. So my scheduled Desperate Acts of Application are canceled for today. I still have Wallowing in Misery scheduled for tomorrow, but I am not in the mood for that today, and maybe I won’t be tomorrow either.
A purple iris has unfurled itself.
As we all know, I don’t have photography skilz, so you have to imagine it having been photographed by someone who does. Or, indeed, imagine it as it is in real life.
Our little garden is too small for all the things I wanted to plant, but it has cabbage, lettuce, tomatoes, peppers of various kinds, herbs, squash of various kinds, cucumbers, and lemon grass. I haven’t bought any annuals for the front garden, since that would be frivolous when I am in such a precarious position, so maybe I could plant beans out there.
Shade-tolerant beans of some kind. Peas, maybe. In amongst the columbine and salvia. Watermelons with the azaleas.
You always have good food. I’m moving in with you.
the tablescape looks delicious. I didn’t buy any annuals this year either, I did buy seeds at the dollar store and have started them, they are coming up nicley in the front porch and I don’t feel guilty about spending money on annuals.
my bff’s husband is a carpenter. he has been laid off since before thanksgiving. so all his “side jobs” have turned into their main income. all this to say, The Lord always provides, he is thankful for the side jobs that would have been extra income but are now putting food on the table. You are a smart woman, freelance and consulting work aren’t permanent but they will help pay the bills.
how do you make tuscan turkey burgers? they sound divine. as does your lemon mousse torte. are your recipes at your other site?
Now that looks like the quintessential all-American meal.
I wish it would stop frosting around here so we can get a garden in! Of course, that means waiting another two weeks or so….I’ve had to scrape my car a few times over the past week as I’ve headed off to school in the wee hours of the morning.
Irises too…. Well, we’ve got daffodils and some nearly real looking leaves on trees……
Looks yummy!
I can completely understand how you are feeling right now because I’m also currently unemployed. Scary business. I guess I can’t completely because I don’t have any children to put through college and my DH makes enough but I am about to go crazy with not working and we need me to make lots of money so we can pay off bills so we can survive once DH gets out of the Navy and we have to live on my income for four years! I’ll keep praying for you to find a job soon so you won’t be stressed out and can enjoy the variety of your work without the little bursts of worry!
@JewelE19 – Thanks! I’ll pray for you, too.
@fibermom – Thank you, I could use it!