Recently I took a trip to visit my brother. His wife is having twins and she’s 4 months along. This past week they were moving, but the week before that my sister in law ended up with phantom kidney stones. They say kidney stones, but she has yet to pass one. They surgically implanted a tube from one organ to another to help her, but she’s still in so much pain that she has to take pain killers regularly (still). I took a week and I went to help out. When I come home I have messages from people I don’t know asking me where I am and messages from my friends asking me as well. Only one person out of anywhere asked if everything was okay. Another person on her blog says she doesn’t care if anything’s wrong, only that her brother’s site is up.
I’ve been taking care of my company for 6 years now. When my family needed help, I decided to go. The time off would have been noticed by no one, if not mentioned by a client who happened to have her account suspended for not paying before I left. I completely understand where she’s coming from and I apologized for the timing. But since so many people wanted to know where I was, I wanted to let you all know. Everything is okay with me (physically), but I fear my little niece and nefew won’t make it.
I know I’m not online anymore and I don’t answer my own IMs and I don’t blog. There’s a good reason for that. I simply don’t have time. Nor do I want to. In November I decided I wanted to get a part time job to get out of the house. I needed it, trust me. I started working at Kohl’s in December and it was great. In January, Jay was separated from his job and my company, along with Kohl’s, became our sole source of income and it scared the death out of me. So I’ve been trucking along, taking care of E-Starr, the kids, and working part time (because now I actually NEED that job). My blogs have become wastelands and my online friends have moved on. Even as I sit here and type I’m thinking about the emails I need to get back to, the bills I have to pay, and the thousands of dollars I need to pay my taxes, which have to go out today.
So in short, yes, life has caught up with me. But E-Starr is a huge chunk of that life. My mind is running a mile a minute, 18 hours a day. I needed to take some time out to be there for a family member, to help him save his babies and move into the bigger house they bought just for those babies. I don’t ask for a whole lot in this world, but this one week I took to do what I needed to do. I’m very sorry for anyone this affected, but I seriously doubt it affected them like it did me. I needed this. In 6 years, this is the only time I have taken time for myself, and although I’m sorry for issues I may have caused others, I’m not sorry that I went.
I am sorry to hear that your sister in-law is having troubles. Kidney stones are not fun, as I had them when I was pregnant with my son. I hope that they can help her alleviate the pain and that her pregnancy goes well from here on out… I will be sure to keep them in my thoughts and prayers.
Sorry to hear about all of that. I’m glad you’re doing okay. Good luck to your sister-in-law, I hope she’s okay.
Truth be told, I haven’t worked on any of my sites in a month, but I haven’t really been too busy. I’ve just been very unmotivated.
You should definitely take care of your family. Even though E-Starr is your business, your family should always come first. As a customer, I am totally 100% cool with you making sure the people you love are doing fine. If I had any problems, I would be cool waiting for you to take care of everything you needed to before you sorted out my problems. I’m sorry that some of your clients weren’t as understanding.
Sorry to hear about those a**hole clients. Some people just can’t think of anyone but themselves and what they need.
always here for ya… who else understands but someone in the same shoes?
customers will always be customers. we are not entitled to lives, family or our personal needs. yet we are required to pay our own bills and our taxes, even when our customers choose not to pay us (or on time) for service.
cheer up! things will always be better and you know where you can find me if you need someone to talk to.
You know what? Screw them. People are always about everyone else until they need something then they’re all me me me, and half of the time they don’t even consider that maybe it was THEIR actions that brought this along anyway. God forbid anyone have any decency or common sense anymore. Apparently asking people to consider all sides of something before turning into Bitch Clients is asking too much, who knew?
I’m sorry about your brother and his wife. I hope they make it and everything turns out ok! And screw those people who care only about their websites and all that other stuff. You’re not all internet. They can wait. If they don’t like it they can move on.
Glad you’re back Amy.
And of course you are entitled to time off…vacation, unplug, whatever you want to do you can do it. However, you know me and ermina and probably some others, who to alleviate your stress you could of just asked us to keep an eye out for any emergency issues. Just to save any headaches when you come back. We’ve been in your shoes, and continue to be actually so we completely understand.