I’ve vaguely referenced it here and there on ye olde blog, but times have been really tough lately financially. One of my wishes/goals for 2012 was to find a way to generate more income. When I made that goal, I assumed it would come in the form of a higher full-time salary, or more loftily, a windfall from some unknown deceased relative. 

The weird thing is, we are only 9 days into the new year, and that goal is already coming to fruition! But not at all in the ways I’d imagined. 

First up, I won my very first contest! YOU GUYS. I seriously kind of believed that either a) nobody actually ever won contests, or b) I had the worst luck ever. But I got an email last night from Emily informing me that the $100 gift card was mine! Huzzah! 

Then, a few minutes ago, I got a call from the little side job I work at occasionally (usually just to help out when they are in a pinch). Someone is leaving and they want me to work every Saturday and Sunday for the foreseeable future. On the downside, I won’t really have much downtime or any days off, but on the upside, I will be pulling in a few hundred dollars extra per month. HOLLA.

So I guess the moral of the story is, sometimes wishes come true, but not in the way you might have expected. (Or maybe the real moral of the story is to make your wishes more specific? Idk.)