Holidays and Such…
I was never one to be all gushy around the holiday season and this blog post will not be a gushy, thankful for load of garbage because that is not who I am so why would I write one? For many years, at a younger age, I had the typical Jersey mouth on me. Curses would be flying, no regard to others around me and so forth. Then I started to grow up and realize that not everyone needs to hear my conversations or be caught in my line of nasty mouth. Occassionally it does come back and peaks its head into my life, especially when I get angry but, oh yea the holiday…
This year my husband and I welcomed a baby girl into our lives. If you do not know the entire story, I am sure you can find it somewhere on this blog or my corporate blog here. The sappy side of me, WARNING, is I am thankful for our daughter and that she has allowed us to be a family.
This year, 2009, has been a very difficult one. We decided to move back east to be closer to family and we moved with a 3 week old! Talk about stress but our daughter was amazing! Ok yes, she slept most of the drive but it all worked out so who the fuck cares, you don’t need to hear the week long ordeal of traveling from Arizona to Florida! (ok i still curse…) Unless you want to and I can relive the experience of two SUV’s being driven across the country, 2 dogs, a U-haul, MIL, 3 week old baby to a home I never saw in person…
Anyhoo, my business was going strong and didn’t get overly hit by the troubling economic times. We were on track to even make more money than 2008 and then shit happened. I have no idea what exactly happened but everything got quiet. Then while this downfall was occuring, in March my back decided it was time to knot itself and not loosen till June. Feeling almost normal I decided to be the world traveler to present out at a conference about Online Marketing in San Fran. 5 days later I returned home in extreme pain and with 2 herniated discs. (Delray Beach ER doctor was a huge McDouchey questioning me why I was there and shit; WTF I couldn’t walk! That is why I went to the ER…)
(WTG LISA! Nice job on the back and totally destroying your back health!)
So now that it is 6 months later and I have been fairly quiet throughout the online world, I am attempting to make my return. This time with much less back pain and not planning a trip for a while to make sure my lovely discs will not recreate another 2009 horrid experience of pain, crying and pain killers; where did the time go, what the fuck happened to me, and this year!
While I will be taking off during the slowness of the holiday, it will also give me the much needed time to finally enjoy our new home and location. The dreams of moving 2 minutes from the beach quickly died when I could barely walk for 8.5 months, couldn’t hold my baby or even sleep due to the pain I experienced this year.
Though I wasn’t very vocal in the social networks, I was still online reviewing and reading what was happening. From former supposed “friends” creating companies from ideas we discussed of pursuing together to seeing many people also make cross country moves for a job or a better life to the Internet Marketers who continue to do well and claim the economy hasn’t hurt them; yes 2009 has been a very interesting year through my eyes.
From the freelancer’s point of view, it seems some continue to maintain and do well while others, many who I somehow connected with, seen a drop in business. From canceled contracts and the biggest issue of all which is the theme of 2009, Clients NOT paying!
So as I take time to enjoy the last 2 weeks of 2009 with my family, I will also be deciding if continuing with PearlyWrites is viable, if I continue with PearlyWrites, would I be interested in finding other parties or partners and relaunching or just look at my business as it was nice while it lasted, I learned a lot being a small business owner, about the dishonesty of the business world and continue on my way to bigger, brighter and better things.
Wishing everyone a nice holiday, a better new year and less stress and sanity for 2010!
Lisa
