Honeydew

Good things:

1. I planted my rose bushes last week, and two out of the three are growing like crazy. The third is just starting to put out buds
2. I made more mason bee houses yesterday. The weather cooled down again, but hopefully there are still a few bees doing the bee thing out there.
3. Obama is maybe going to save my house.
4. I have really, really great friends. Every now and then it hits me hard, and I can't believe how lucky I am.
5. I cannot wait for May!! I've always thought it was the perfect time of the year for a wedding. Hee.
6. Closure.

List of things:

1. Get large map of Portland, thumb tacks, and colored thread.
2. Hit up garage sales for bikes.
3. Get a minivan somehow?
4. Breathe.

I found a TX job that offers a weekend schedule; apparently you can also set your own hours, although I'm not sure how that would work. If I get a decent pay rate, that's possibly another $500 a month. If I can get the right full-time TX job for during the week to go along with my current one, that would be ideal -- especially if I can get IC status and set my own work rate instead of working at an hourly rate. I'm really fast, so if I kill myself I can really max out my line count. Then I've got my plasma farm and my knitting....I wonder if I can knit while I'm selling plasma?

Number crunch.

• Apr. 1st, 2009 at 12:13 PM

Did some math this morning. If I bust my ass at my current job, I can maybe hope for $1400 a month -- and that's as long as there's a steady flow of work, which you can never count on. As it is, my work gets shared with transcriptionists with more seniority when things slow down.

If I sell plasma twice a week, I am guessing I could make another $160 a month.

If I get another full-time transcription gig with a decent line rate (at least 9 cents a line), there's a possibility of another $1800 a month.

After taxes, what is that? About $2400 a month? It's just not enough.

I'm fairly certain I can make a little money with my knitting, but the amount would probably be negligible. Still, every little bit counts.

I can't figure out how to make any more money. I could still do the paper route, but I don't have a car. As it is, I can't figure out how I'm going to be able to get myself to the plasma donation center.