The Upside

This week is gonna suck. My husband is away at a National Sales Meeting at Disney World of all places and it's just me and the 3 kiddos.

Compounded by lack of sleep and an uneventful Mother's Day due to the weekend's soccer tournament activities, I was in a "look at me wrong and I'll rip your face off" kind of mood when I had to get up at the butt crack of dawn to drive my husband to the airport.

I showed up at work an hour early only to realize that I didn't remember the security code to get into the building and had to wait until the first brown-noser showed up at almost 7:30am.

Once I got to my desk, I put myself right to work for fear that I would be passed out with a puddle of drool beneath me on the desk by the time my supervisor arrived.

I worked, cursed my husband's existence, checked FB, worked, cursed my job for not letting me travel, uploaded pics, worked, and then....it happened. The one event that changed my perspective of the day around. I was asked (and paid) to draw a dragon tattoo on a hot guy's bicep with a sharpie. No joke!

We have a production studio in the building and they were in desperate need of a tattoo for their bad guy actor in a segment they were filming.

Thanks to recommendation from my friend and co-worker, Faith, .... DA DA DA! Me and My Illustration Skills To The Rescue!

It only took me about 10 minutes to complete ( and I woulda done it for free because believe me it wasn't unpleasant) but I still raked in $150 for it.

So for the rest of the day (or hell, the rest of the week), when things get chaotic and I'm ready to lock myself in a room and cry, I can look back on the moment that I got to cradle this Golden God's bicep in my hand and sigh.