Today wasn't really any better

 As I'm no longer a "top dasher," making any money today was almost a bust. $24...woohoo. I need to try up in Green Forest, where the plant is, tomorrow and see how that does me. No midrange restaurants there, just a diner that closes early, a gas station with a bunch of food type things (chicken, tacos, etc.), and a small handful of low-midrange restaurants. I can give it a whirl for a few hours and see what happens. Worst that happens is the nothing I'm doing now and I come back to home base to make SOMETHING.

On the other hand, come Saturday,  I start a new 3/4 time job at a local gas station. It's pretty regular and will at least keep the rent paid and the credit cards paid that all the bills are going on right now. Going to be a bit tight for a while till I can get back to top dasher status, which will be hard with only two days a week off anymore, and working till close every night. By the time the gas station closes, all the restaurants are done too, except the one McDonald's. Might do a bit of that if I can get on the schedule for it and see what happens. Goodness knows, on the shorter nights, I can do a few hours of dashing afterwards before I need to get home and get dinner and all. I am a whatever it takes to get rolling well. 

I've lived near broke before and it doesn't bother me. Severe stress bothers the hell outta me, and the plant was seriously starting to affect my mental health. When you get up and cry just knowing you have to go in there again for another ten hour shift, and you know it's going to suck, it's past time to just call it and quit. Things may be tough for me right now financially, but I will make it through this to the other side, and come out a winner.

The blessing is that I've had more time to work on the shop. Downside to that, I'm switching print providers so I can sell the mugs at a lower price point and still make a nice profit, so there's that causing time consumption. Though the new print provider has a nice metallic mug, available in gold or silver coatings, as well as the white and black mugs I've been doing. So there's that...it's awful time-consuming to change everything over and add new products, but somehow I am managing that and dashing, and keeping house, and paying bills...and not falling apart. It is darned hard but I'm making it a little at a time, a day at a time.

A few pictures for y'all!







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