Cruises, banner ads and mario kart

Freelancers are a strange niche of people. We have to be. The only way to move from one topic to a totally different topic smoothly is to be kind of strange to begin with. Throw a family in the mix and you can easily go from writing about travel to writing about advertising to playing Mario Kart all in the space of two hours. If this sounds dizzying, then maybe this life isn't for you!

Or maybe you're actually sane.

You know, one of the two.

This has been my life of late: I get up, get my son ready, go to Strong Start or play Mario Kart Double Dash with him (yes, my 2 year old can manage that game so long as he's just throwing items.), then either spend the afternoon taking him to Strong Start or convincing him that we don't need to play anymore Mario Kart (or at least bargaining with him on it), try to write an article or two, cook dinner, do the dishes, get the house vaguely tidy, get William ready for bed, read to him, sign with him, get him into bed, get a coffee, tumble into bed, work for two and a half hours, work on NaNoWriMo for a couple hours and then collapse in a heap. Wake up and start again!

Unless it's Wednesday and Thursday, in which it's get up, play Mario Kart, convince him that we don't need to play more Mario Kart, try to work and then so on. And throw in grocery shopping whenever I can. ^^'.

It's really no wonder that most successful freelancers are single or have had their families move out. It's basically a huge juggling act otherwise and someone will get disgruntled at you! You just have to learn to roll with it and make sure you block out your time.

Now excuse me while I try to write about cruises and convince William that he CAN in fact wait for a bit before we play yet more Mario Kart. ^^'