Hi Richard,
Let it out, roar, go have fun with your family and focus on all you have, not your perceived loss. Look, IF they really knew YOU, they wouldn't be running elsewhere so quickly. What is their problem?? Why wouldn't they work it out with you? They are the fools.
If I were to calculate all the money that's owed to me, from schemers, dreamers, liars and thieves, it would be far more than $15,000. Everyone thinks I'm such a rich and famous punk photographer. I even get crap about that, charging too much while I'm living on one meal a day, way too often. I always joke I should be skinny cos of that.
My pals tell me everything happens for a reason. I've always been a Pollyanna. Cream mag wrote that when the Ramones first came to California, they were followed "around by a 250 pound cherub named Jenny." Ouch, that was a good 75 pounds more than I weighed. But can't argue with the cherub part.
Life these days comes at us so fast and furiously that it's easy for things to fall in the crack. I am having a really hard time with the early dark hours. At 7 PM I thought it had to be at least 10 PM. Often at 2 AM I think it's got to be 11 PM. Several times a day I have to figure out what day it is. The thorn in the rose of working 24/7/365!
So relax, you are human. YOU ARE BLESSED. You have a loving family, live out in some gorgeous, beautiful country, great skills, and things are gonna get better.
Remember how many lives you have helped.
Now, figure out how to prevent this from happening again. If possible. If not, there's gonna be more $15,000 deals. That was not a fluke. Be grateful it worked out as it did. Maybe it's a blessing in disguise.
I wanna know how one little mistake could cost so much.
PS I will get back to you. Life is what happens while we are making other plans. I finally had to submit to the demands of the company I rep. I took my multiple page Joomla site and condensed it into a one page WordPress site. I tweaked the CSS a bit, but still a little funky. Good enough, however.
NOW for them to tell me IF I finally get their blessings. We'll see . . . but to take the same info and make one long page . . . you tell me what's the diff? Which is easier for peeps to comprehend/retain and Google to index?? I ORIGINALLY made one page. My pals told me TMI (too much info), so I broke it into small postings.
We all have our stories. But as Scarlett O'Hara said, "tomorrow is another day." Go get 'em!
Years ago an attorney told me this great saying, which I love sharing with others:
"Never try to teach a pig to sing. He's too stupid to learn and will only get mad at you for trying."
Not saying that company is pig-headed. But some peeps just don't "get" the net.
Here's to a better tomorrow, a better life!!
Jenny Lens
OK, I am absolutely infuriated right now.
