My three full-time jobs (Patreon)

At the risk of being incredibly tone deaf in pandemic times, I'm going to complain about how much I have to do.

Or scrap that, complaining isn't really the word for it. Picture me more like an athlete taking a quick break, breathing heavily with my hands on my knees before running back out in the field. But instead of a grassy athletic field it's a workshop filled with piles of dust and failed 3D prints. And instead of abs there's quarantine bod.

JOB #1: Flailing Product Developer

Remember that Kickstarter campaign I ran in 1997? With a calendar that you could use to track you habits? 

Last week, we finally started shipping them out to backers!* I'm not going to lie, it's been a really painful process. As somebody who's terrified of disappointing people, having backers  trust me with $300 (!) was an all-you-can-eat anxiety buffet. 

But somehow I chewed my way through it, and now we're on to the dessert: the thought of calendars having some sort of hidden issue that will make all of them self-destruct in a couple of months. There is no indication that that's the case. But I can't be more than 99.9% sure, and that 0.1% is like a tiny, but very aggressive ant, biting whatever part of me it can reach.

With that said, I drove down to the fulfillment center and my team and I opened up E V E R Y box before we sent them out. I also spilled grape juice on my new white shirt after telling myself "yes I can handle wearing white clothes, I'll show you"

Getting to see people receive their calendars has made it more than worth it though. I'm so fucking proud. As someone who is very good at doing silly things, but still struggles with taking myself seriously, this is huge. 

Speaking of silly projects...

JOB #2: Unreliable YouTuber

Remember that YouTube channel I haven't posted on since 1997? Yeah that one. I have a new video that's 90% done, I'm just waiting for final approval from the sponsor. It involves a lot of (fortunately fake) teeth. And a piano. You can probably figure out the rest from there.

Something that might be more difficult to figure out is this last job of mine...

JOB #3: Coordinating Big Life Change (no still not pregnant)

So I just did a thing that is notoriously difficult for people in my generation to do. It is very grown-up and it involves a lot of paperwork. It also means that my video backdrop probably will look significantly different next month, and that I will have to swap out a lot of my wardrobe for lighter clothes.

It is definitely going to be the end of a life chapter, and the beginning of something new. Maybe better, or maybe just different, but I won't know unless I try.

All I know is that I have woken up at 7am every morning this week because I'm too excited to sleep. Please blame any typos on that.

XOXO
//Simone

* We are opening up preorders for the next batch of Every Day Calendars this week. You can sign up here to get notified when they're available for purchase!