Unexpected Work = More Christmas Spending

If you had a choice to write on read.cash and make a few dollars a day or write for a living and make $75 or more a day, what would you choose? Obviously, the latter, right? Well, that is precisely why I haven't posted anything for a couple of days. I have been busy writing for some regular clients we have

Clients

Aside from my mini sari sari store, I also write professionally with my fiancee's writing business. Work had been okay and we were making about $75 a day writing various content. Then all of a sudden we were swamped with requests from clients.

My fiancee, who thinks this platform is a complete waste of his time, stayed up for 20 hours straight editing a doctoral thesis of 140 pages, then wrote some content for a winery in Napa Valley, California.

I pleaded with him to get some sleep, but like the hardhead he is, he just continued to drink coffee and work. Every once in a while he would stand up and stretch, walk outside for a few minutes, and then get right back to work. I really don't know how he does it.

Meanwhile...

While he tackled the above-mentioned, I edited a film review, wrote some content for a man who has an online store and who sells survival gear, and also wrote some content for a real estate company in Texas.

But with our young son, I had to stop here and there and ensure he was taken care of properly first and foremost. Thankfully, he was content to play with his toys and watch videos on You Tube Kids with the tablet we bought for him last month.

Now my fiancee is writing a journal article for an educational website about effective learning online during the pandemic, while I write this article. He refuses to eat because he wants to finish by 5 p.m. and submit it for a peer review process.

The payoff

Not to brag, but the payoff has been fantastic. He made $425 for editing the doctoral dissertation and $100 for the winery article. He will make $130 for the educational website plus incentives each time someone purchases his content.

My payoff was much smaller. I made $40 for the film review edit, $55 for the survival gear content, and $90 for the real estate content. Our total payout is $840 for two days of writing.

Our Christmas plans

We were going to eat our Christmas dinner at the beach resort near our home. However, yesterday he looked at the menu and said he wasn't interested in it and that the prices were too high for what they were selling. Therefore, I just returned home from buying groceries.

I purchased my traditional Filipino foods and his US foods.

Instead of the traditional Filipino midnight celebration on Christmas Eve, we will skip that because the baby will be sleeping. Instead, we will open our gifts on Christmas morning and eat our dinner around 2 or 3 p.m.

The meal(s)

My meal and his will be different. But we will share a little of the other's food. For example, I am making chocolate cupcakes on Christmas Eve while he is following his family tradition of baking a cake for Jesus. Of course, as Christians, we are well aware Christ wasn't born on Christmas Day.

My meal will include spaghetti (which he has always found to be ridiculous), pancit, roast pork, some letchon for my son, vegetables, and macaroni salad.

His meal is completely different. He will have ham, mashed potatoes with gravy, sweet yams topped with marshmallows, green beans and the cake. He is also going to bake come homemade Texas style biscuits. Anyway, we usually eat a slice of cake for breakfast after our morning prayer.

Finally, if there is no writing tomorrow to be completed, we will buy some Christmas gifts and dine out for lunch. We have been blessed and our thanksgiving is ever raised to the ears of the Lord our God.

May you too have a Merry Christmas!