I only had 1 job to do yesterday. Just one simple job. Update one web page. I knew that if I did that 10 minutes work in time to get crawled by Google it would be worth anywhere from $40 to $150. Why then did it take me SIX hours to get around to doing it?
I just wasn’t in the mood yesterday, I slept in until 8 o’clock and even then I was still tired. When I finally made it into the office I could and did find any excuse to do anything other than that little bit or real work that I had to do. It was a check and re-check stats sort of day. I had a strange feeling in the pit of my stomach, for somebody who never feels the cold I was shaking. I was convinced in my own head that this was it, I’d finally had enough of making my living this way. My motivation and body was giving up on me. Maybe it was time to give up and go and get a normal job again?
Then last night the feeling in my stomach was getting steadily worse. Maybe it was stress caused by the situation I’ve put myself in? Maybe this making £5 one day but £1000 the next and never knowing where I stand was stressing me too much? Well after almost 2 hours on the toilet with serious issues “at both ends” I can confirm that rather than my body telling me it was time to give up and my lack of work being down to a lack of motivation I’d say it was all down to some fairly major food poisoning! Man, that wasn’t pretty! I had an early night and have taken the day off today to just mess around the house not doing anything much (except drinking lots of water). I’ve got ideas for posts and new sites coming out of my ears! Just goes to show that sometimes you can read too much into these things. Healthy body, healthy mind.
2 Responses to “Giving Up”
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September 18, 2008
Freakin’ hilarious – well, the reading too much into it part. Sorry about the food poisoning. I recently experienced something very similar, from (I thought) a mexican restaurant. Turns out it was probably a virus from the kid (going to daycare). Still, I don’t think I’ll ever eat at that restaurant again.
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September 18, 2008
Yes, the important lesson to take from this is that there is nothing funny about “ring sting” (and that we need to have our bathroom re-done so that the sink is closer to the toilet, helps when you need somewhere for both ends
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