Ever since discovering Facebook, I'm horrible about blogging. Most of my family is NOT on Facebook, so they're left out in the cold wondering if I'm dead or alive (well, not really... I'm just being dramatic.)

BJ's decided to hang up his self-employed hat and go back to working for 'da man. On the plus side, we won't have to go hunting for health insurance that isn't a million dollars a month. On the down side, he won't be able to go golfing in the middle of the week with the rest of the retirees. One of the companies he was contracting to wasn't doing as well as he had hoped. The other company he was contracted to was doing GREAT- so he decided to just go to work full time for them. He's known these guys for eons, so he's going to have a great time there.

My contract with "Big Fish" has again been extended. Now I'm contracted through the end of the year. They're starting to talk about next year as well, so I think this might end up being a permanent gig as long as I keep doing good work. The other big fish absolutely loved the first draft of the training I created for them and said that there will be more contracts coming my way (squee!) I'm turning in the edited version on Monday and hopefully HR and Legal will sign off on it so I can move on to the French version (yippee! I'm international!)

I'm still debating putting more effort into marketing myself. I'm really enjoying the schedule of having one 'permanent' contract and then one supplemental every once in a while. I've made a name for myself, so people are coming to me with repeat projects. It's ended up that I have had a constant project between the other three customers I work with, in addition to constant stream of projects from "Big Fish". One ends, and another seems to magically appear. I know I could grow my business as large as I want, and the only reason I'd do that is to provide a good paying job for the boys. I really wrestle with that. It just doesn't feel comfortable to me to do that right now. I think if I lived closer to the boys (which could happen if BJ's job goes in the direction he thinks it will), I'd do it in a heartbeat.

I think that catches us up on the job-front. Not much going on personally except that I'm FINALLY feeling better after an almost two week run of the flu. Unfortunately, having a fever for so long has caused a nasty case of fever blisters and there's NO way I'm going out in public like this. Seriously, I look like a leper and no amount of cabin fever is going to force me out in public. Poor Einstein will have to wait a few more days before he gets to go to the puppy park. Meh.