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Justice it isn’t, but life goes on

February 10, 2014

I have been hit hard financially this week by a client who owed me money getting away with it – and this despite winning a court case and a CJJ against his company. I found out yesterday and I’m not exaggerating when I say the news has knocked me for six.

Last night I could not stop crying and I could feel a dark cloud closing around me. Today I’ve slept a lot and worried, thought black thoughts about him and against him – and against the law. How can it be that somebody who does something so despicable gets away scot-free? I thought laws were supposed to protect innocent parties from being shafted – in my case I did a lot of work for him and he has just not paid me.

I’m slowly rallying now. I’ve paid a few bills, paid my rent, checked my bank account and I’m still in credit. There’s a fridge full of food, the cupboards are well-stocked and we have a roof over our heads, at least for now. That’s a lot more than many people in the world, in this country even, have and for that I’m thankful.

I’m not going to waste any more time fretting and getting worked up about this man/company and what he has done; life is truly too short to waste even one breath, one second, on such a person.

All that’s left for me to do now is to put the whole awful episode behind me and get on with life, making a living and creating a beautiful future for my daughter and me.

Pets in plant pots – oh yes

April 25, 2013

Oh my goodness, I know it’s been ages but life got in the way. Not in a good way, more in a work-I-have-bills-to-pay way, and despite my best intentions I didn’t have the energy or the inclination after 10 hours a day at the computer.

It seems though that the laugh may be on me. I hope to God I’m wrong, but it’s looking very much like I’m not going to get the money owed to me for the work I did, that I will have to chase the company that owes me through the courts and even after that, even with a court judgement against them, they may not pay. How fair is that? It’s a rant for another day – ‘Does freelancer mean skivvy these days and where do companies get off treating us like something on the bottom of their shoe’.

And soooooooo in the spirit of not letting it get to me and not depressing you, dear readers (that’s if I’ve got any left after my prolonged absence) I present to you….

Kitty in a plant pot and Bunny in a plant pot. I don’t know why but this is the favoured seat for both Rosie Raditt (our cat) and Cookie AKA Mrs Bun (our rabbit).

The two of them sit in plant pots for hours at a time, awake or asleep, it doesn’t seem to matter. Still, as long as they’re happy. Have you seen the size of her ruff – she is as big as the cats and they run away from her. Does anybody else have pets with strange quirks? Let me know, I’d love a laugh xx

Picking up where I left off…

November 15, 2011

I have decided that although it is absolutely ages since I posted, I am not going to feel guilty or try to fill in any gaps since July. Yes, lots has happened in the past few months but I don’t have time to go back and recap – and anyway, I doubt many people would be that interested.

Yes, the good thing is that although the blog has fizzled out a bit, my work has fizzed up and I am very busy – fingers crossed this continues to be the case.

Anyway, who said you have to blog every day…

Blogging is supposed to be fun and I’m going to keep on enjoying it – so I’ll post when I feel like it, when I have time, when I can – and not give myself a hard time when I end up putting other things (such as work) first.

And anyway, guilt isn’t good for you – as I’ve got older that’s something I’ve come to realise and thankfully I don’t let it get to me the way it did when I was younger…