Things are looking up. I still don't have enough $$$ for health insurance for March (it's due Feb 5th for March), but I have enough for everything else, HALLELUJAH!!! And there's a grace period on the health insurance, so I'll probably make that just before the bell, too, with any luck at all. WOO HOO!
I have two project possibilities that look "right promising," One at Elance and one as the result of a De/Trek connection. The De/Trek connection one could have me writing 40-60 hours a week at $55/hour for at least two weeks straight (with similar hours and weeks every few weeks thereafter); the other may bring in $1800/ month for 40 hours of work. If I get these two as "regulars," I will be just fine... perhaps TOO fine (overworked by a bunch)... but since I love what I do, it won't be much of a hardship. It's better to be earning 12-14 hours a day than looking for projects 10-12 hours per day and struggling to make ends meet, that's for sure. It pays a lot better!
I've also put an ad in the Little Nickel for two weeks in East and West Pierce County, so that may bring me in some local work. (Most of my clients are scatterered all over the world. I've only had one Pierce County client in two years and I got them via Elance. I haven't done any outreach locally at all until this week, except for putting a yard sign on my front lawn on a rural, little-traveled road.)
In other news...
A German De Kelley fan (Antje--you've met her in an earlier blog post) sent me a color brochure about Kassel, the place in Germany where my grandmother grew to age 10 or 11 before coming to America during the first decade of the 20th century. It's BEAUTIFUL!
My sister Laurel visited Kassel in 1968 when she was in Germany working as a secretary for the Air Force in Wiesbaden, and she had told me, back then, how amazing it was. Now I can see it for myself (in Technicolor)! It looks like there's a castle or a museum everywhere you look.
The downtown area of Kassel was destroyed during the Second World War; because of this, Laurel wasn't able to track down any family history or relatives while she was there. That was a bummer. If anyone knows any Stelzners who came from the Kassel region of Germany to the USA, they may be related to us! (Let them know. If they don't run and hide after finding out more about me, maybe they'll connect!)
Hey, what do you think of the new background? Does it make the copy too hard to read? Let me know. Go to Blogger.com and tell me which template you like best for the background and I'll try it out! The one I had for ages has disappeared. I can't get it back...
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