Two days after the refi, I asked the bosslady if that Friday was my last day.
Yep. Went in for a couple hours Monday and Tuesday to finish odds and ends, teach her retoucher how to order online and left. Same scenario as last winter-if things pick up, I'll go back.

I have another writing gig: Newark Motorcycle Examiner
Hope you all check in time to time.

I am so hopelessly addicted to Farmtown that I spend more online time there than anywhere else.

I am learning to ride. I have a very long way to go.

We close on the refi on Tuesday.
Didn't get the great rates they were touting a month ago, but it's 6%, not the 8.125%(which was graciously dropped from over 9%) we were paying and even tho it will be $13k more, it's $300 less a month and it's a fixed rate.
Just in time as the job seems to be winding down for the summer.
More riding....oh yea....

I signed into a site that's like a webring for mortgage companies and within hours got four banks/loaners vying for our hard-earned cash.
Now I know the power go-go dancers feel when they're on stage. EVERYONE wants me. They want me desperately. They want my business. They're dropping rates just to please me. They're plying me with paper wonderments filled with such sexy items as per diems and annual percentage rates and, ooooo....closing costs. Close me, baby, close me!
They want to come to my house to sign their *sigh* documents of financial commitment.
They want me to be theirs alone for 30 years.

Feeeeeel the power...but don't touch the goodies!

Today, I lost it. Ever since I got back to the studio, the bosslady has been insulting, condescending, presumptuous and accusatory.
Some of her more recent "comments":
"You keep doing stuff like that and you'll be back on the unemployment line."
(I used the term "playing" to describe experimenting with a portrait to be used in an image book. Once I said why it was the way it was, she responded with, "Oh. Well, they don't like black and whites, so don't bother."
"You call yourself a graphic artist with crap like this?"
(She wanted me to design a client's reminder card for kids' birthday portraits so I did it in a kid style with a birthday cake motif. Guess she wasn't impressed)
She keeps telling me how terrific her regular retoucher is and will give me work with a condescending "You can handle this, it's just wallet size." Translation: It's small, no one will notice your errors/lack of...

Good lord, I'm addicted to a farm in Facebook....

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