work

I have had absolutely nothing interesting to say today because all I’ve done is WORK.  I worked 10 hours as of 7pm tonight and still need to put another hour in and some of that includes at 12:45 in the morning when we receive a file.   I guess it could wait until the morning and that’s fine if I fall asleep and don’t wake up to do it but if I’m up, I won’t be able to sleep knowing it’s not taken care of.  I’m just anal like that I guess.

Tomorrow I had planned on going into the office at lunch and then working really late tomorrow night for an implementation—as in maybe until midnight–but today I just found out some things I had planned on doing next week are due tomorrow.  So looks like tomorrow is going to be an extremely long work day for me.

So St called me today confirming he wanted me to work on the new church’s youth group web site.  And he won’t let me do it for free as long as I attend there.  I did our current youth group’s web site but that was free of charge….I also did my mom’s web site but that was free of charge as well.  So I had no idea what a fair price of a custom web site was.  I’ve asked some people in-the-know and it seems $600 seems to be a fair, minimum price for a package deal.  I don’t feel comfortable charging the full price as I feel like it is a ministry thing for me as well as St is a friend and it’s for a church AND I don’t know Flash, which is what he wants to do.  So I’m not sure what I’ll tell him.  I’m excited to learn Flash, which I’ve been wanting to do for years now but never got a copy of the software and never really had any reason to learn it.  So I’m thinking I’m going to be pretty busy in the near future and knowing St, we’ll be working on it heads down and until it’s EXACTLY how he wants it.

I just found out my manager got me a 14% raise, all on his own, just because I do a great job.  Holy cow!  That’s awesome!

I ended up working 43 hours last week.  That’s 13 hours above my normal work week.  That’s ridiculous.  I got everything fixed and it’s all working, but whew.  And it’s not slowing down either.  I’ve got a lot to do this week and next week.  But I think I can do it in my regular work hours.  Hopefully anyway.