The Globally Published Writer in My House

June 16, 2010

(Spoiler alert:  It’s not Gig Girl) Please note that, as always, my husband has fully sanctioned this post. As I’ve mentioned, as one of my gigs,  I freelance through Demand Studios.  Because I’m a complete dork by nature and still get a kick out of the novelty of it all, I search and find each […]

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Getting Giggy With It

June 8, 2010

Gig Girl will now pause for a moment to allow you all the opportunity to release the overwhelming urge to GAG you’ve stifled since reading the title of this post.  Feel better?  For the record…I don’t blame you one bit.  The title reeks of punful cheese and warrants a good dry heave.  But I’ve waited […]

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The Rejectee becomes the Rejector

June 3, 2010

As we all learned from my previous post, Gig Girl had a tough week last week.  No new gigs and a big fat “Reject” status from Leapforce all added to my chagrin and I met the long holiday weekend with eager anticipation.  “The lake”, as we all refer to it, is where my in-laws reside […]

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Putting The “Duh!” in Dunce

May 25, 2010

Gig Girl has hit a frustrating patch.  Over the past few weeks I’ve had several phone screens with potential employers.  I can only assume they didn’t hire me as I haven’t heard back from any of them.  (An amusing sidenote: When lamenting to my precious mother – a.k.a “Gig Girl’s biggest fan”- about not hearing […]

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New Addition

May 19, 2010

Just a quick little blurb to announce that Gig Girl has a new gig:  Pack Mother!  This past Saturday the Hubs and I made the 2 hour treck to claim the newest member of our family; A 9 week old mini-schnauzer pup we named Sir Reginald Winston (though we’re not much for formalities and titles […]

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Poison Ivy Gratitude

May 17, 2010

On Mother’s Day, Owen ran a fever of 101.8 so I kept him out of school on Monday.  He recovered quickly, only to learn the age-old, hard-knock lesson discovered by countless generations of six-year-old boys before him:  Poison ivy is friend to no grade schooler.  Endlessly red, puffy and itchy, he stayed home with me […]

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The Business Mullet

May 10, 2010

Last week I had the daunting, self-assigned goal of making 10 potential client contacts.  I received a lot of encouragement and support on my last post which outlined just how much “sales calls” terrify me.  One commenter, Elizabeth, gave me the most eloquent and motivating “Suck It Up, Buttercup” speech I’ve ever read or given […]

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Bock, bock ba-gock!

April 30, 2010

I like to fancy myself as someone who lives “quasi-boldly.”  Adrenaline rushes don’t entice me and I behave far too financially “conservative” (okay, boring) to ever remove the “quasi” completely, but I welcome challenge, leave room for risk and embrace life lessons learned from making tough choices.   My college roomie, Kate, once told me “your […]

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Low Hanging (at times sour, but legitimate nonetheless) Fruit

April 26, 2010

For the past few weeks I’ve been contributing to Examiner.com as a Blended Families Writer.  The gig is a lot of fun and therapeutic for me in my real life role of blended family mom, but the pay thus far has been minimal.  Really, really minimal. As in, so far I’ve made more on NotchUp.com […]

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Rage, Rage, Rage – Success!

April 21, 2010

As I mentioned in an earlier post, I signed up for an online service called Hiremymom.com in March.  For those of you unfamiliar with HMM, it’s a website that lists work from home job opportunities.  The feminist in me kind of rages against the name on behalf of stay at home dads, grandparents and the […]

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