MY BOSS IS TOUGH

My boss is tough on me! She is always nagging me to get back to work, even though I feel like I’m always working! As soon as I get to my first break and am moving along on my word count, she throws something else at me. Today it was a list of appointments to either reschedule or cancel because of a change in family plans. Yesterday she said we needed to get some more healthy food in the house so I had to run to the store. Tomorrow, who knows? But I’m sure it will be something that she forgot to tell me to do last week and now it is critical that it gets done. It has gotten so bad that she keeps me up at night with little reminders of what I didn’t get to yet.

I’m not afraid she will fire me. After all what would she be without me? I’m the one doing everything. All she does is come up with new and interesting ways for me to spend my time. November has been especially brutal. First she decided I should do NaNoWriMo and write an entire novel in a month. 50,000 words total that breaks down to around 1667 words a day! Does she think I’m still in my 20s? I mean, really! On top of that she wants me to make sure I do my weekly blog posts, sometimes twice a week. Then there’s keeping up on trying to build a following. Now, I’ve got to make a whole lot of new friends on Twitter (half my friends don’t know what that is, except as a vehicle for presidential rants) and visit Facebook as more than just a voyeur. Finally, she decided I should start a Podcast about wine and food in mystery books. Now there is something I really wanted to sink my teeth into (no pun intended), I just hope I have the energy left to do it. It means more research and typing and reading. The upside is she lets me drink on the job for that hour.

Like I said, she’s tough. She barely gives me time to take care of my family and home. I’d wish that she would just quit sometimes, but then where would I be? Probably stuck on a park bench feeding pigeons. I’ll take being self-employed over unemployed any day!