And I'm hate watching Love It or List It, knowing there's no way in hell there's that many super clean and finished houses on the market in the buyer's price range and neighborhood

See, I always think about how "Location, location, location"--there may be a magic house that is in their price range that they want, but how often is it not ANYWHERE like their neighborhood--he's always like "It's only 20 minutes away!" and that's super far! I mean, when I was looking for a place I had about a mile radius, maybe...because I wanted one specific neighborhood and that's how big it is.

(That said, I still love Love It or List It and Property Brothers way more than House Hunters, even if they're always SHOCKED, SHOCKED I TELL YOU, to find knob-and-tube wiring or that an integral part of her design is removing a load-bearing wall)

and as if my own co-workers were not annoying enough. do the contractors we are supplying tomorrow bother to call and tell me they are going to cancel? NO, only when I call them, WHICH IS NOT PROCEDURE, to check in do they push off their order for a day. Of the 4 I called, 2 cancelled and 2 went will-call. That is more than half the work scheduled for tomorrow and completely changes the order for materials I have to put in NOW. grr. do not like.

OMG, so much airline shenanigans. I realized the revised meeting time meant I could no longer make my return flight, so I had to cancel and rebook. And then the stupid effing corporate travel site didn't show me the flight I really wanted, so I booked a different one thinking the one I was was full. Then I was told by colleague that that flight was wide open. So then I ended up cancelling another flight and rebooking again, and that time they upgraded me to Business.

But I'm going to have to expense all these flights and then have airline credit, so I still get to have an awkward conversation with my boss. I'm going to end up with like $4000 in credit. Let's see how close I get to using that by the end of the year.

(That said, I still love Love It or List It and Property Brothers way more than House Hunters, even if they're always SHOCKED, SHOCKED I TELL YOU, to find knob-and-tube wiring or that an integral part of her design is removing a load-bearing wall)

I always yell Why didn't you check that before you made the plans! But they don't ever answer me.

The Property Brothers are cute as hell, too.

You guys, I'm crazy in the head. I know this. There's another freelance medical editing job that's essentially mine if I want it, although I do have to talk to the managing editor and make sure he believes the good stuff my colleague said about me. But the journal's subject matter is one that I don't have a hell of a lot of experience with (pathology). I looked over some sample articles, and I *think* I can do it, but I'm slightly intimidated.

I'm not going to turn down the opportunity, because I can use more work, but I'm appalled at myself for how nervous I am. Crazy, right?

Nah, going from something you know backwards and forwards to something you are not that familiar with, natural to be nervous. Going ahead and doing it anyway is the key thing, and you're doing that. You'll rock it.

I always plan for my Sundays to be full of cooking and cleaning, and then they turn out to be full of cooking and nsm cleaning. At least I won't starve.

Totally normal, Steph! You'll do great!

The mechanics of the gig are funny, though. For the AMA, I get PDFs that I download through their portal, and I mark them up using the sticky-notes function in Acrobat, and upload the finished files through their portal.

For this job, I would receive PDFs via email...which I need to print out, mark up by hand, scan, save as new PDFs, and email back. Now, I will get paid for the time to print/scan (which is good, because toner and paper ain't free), but I'm so damn amused. It's like a giant step back to Bedrock.

I think in the long run it will be fun, but yes the first steps are crazy making. for a little bit I did fact checking for children's book . The crazy making part about that is that everyone was different so I was in hurry up and learn mode. At least in theis case you might spend too much time for some of the earlier ones, but you pick up speed as you learn the basics