Hey kids,
After months of not really having a solid address thanks to the situation created by AirBnB's in my area, we finally have settled in somewhere. As I'm sure some of you are like "Wait, haven't you been moving since July?" The answer is yes we have, and yes it's taken us this much effort, albeit, I became exhausted by the process for a month or so, and so that didn't help. For months I have been paying so much money to survive as we were forced to pay ridiculous prices just to stay in a hotel room...which with 2 adults and three parrots is not exactly something I can recommend. I could have rented out three luxury condos for the cost, except not luxury condos here in the Portland area because I am not close to a multimillionaire. Finally that horrifying reality is going to be behind us soon, but since nothing is ever easy, there is A METRIC FUCKTON of moving to do, and on a holiday week (I have always despised Thanksgiving and stuff like this makes me hate it more,) which means what should have been 2-3 hours of work at most has become an outrageous amount of work that I get to do all by myself..and this is the THIRD TIME I've moved in two years, so, for someone like myself who would live in a horrible place merely to avoid the stress of moving, as you might imagine, it's been rather trying...especially as I don't have a car, and Maine in the winter is a really shitty time to figure out how to transport 3 tropical birds on a good day. :P
So, I'd like to apologize. I've been taking extra time I did not expect to take during this move. I know several people wanted to talk this week and many of them are my international clients who likely do not realize that Thursday is a mega holiday in my country that has been fucking up my life since the day I was born and in multiple ways (fuck you, you stupid fucking food holiday,) but also realized several people might not know I am moving to begin with.
However, I also realize many people don't understand unhelpful and tedious behaviors (which are common,) are going to make everything just more difficult and saddle even more work and responsibility unnecessarily on my already-overburdened self, so I'd like to point out the following:
If everyone consistently contacts me with the dreaded "how are things?" and "how did it go?" emails, all you do is delay important emails to take up my time, and basically unintentionally nag me. I realize that isn't the intention, but in almost 20 years of business, if something newsworthy happened, you'd be the second to know since I would be the first. When I answer with my usual answer to that unfortunate question, I usually get some response clearly disappointed that I don't have some wild claim of like levitating and shooting fireballs out of my butthole, and the reality is this is all pretty standard stuff after 3 decades of doing spells... I am doing a job I've done more or less every day for almost 20 of the 30+ years I've been casting spells, and frankly, I am not a bright-eyed neophyte who has to excitedly exaggerate the smallest detail to myself and others to feel important, but rather a hardened adept who has seen and experienced enough to find such exaggeration and drama tedious and unnecessary. I feel that sort of obvious attempt to romanticize and dramatize the whole thing to be a sad cheap bid at entertaining the uneducated, ergo why I do not personally do the same. If that sort of thing is what you wanted, you should know at this writing there are a fair amount of people on Etsy who offer that sort of entertainment and call it spellwork, and they charge less than the charge you get for real spellwork and no drama. You go with what you prefer. HOWEVER, please hold back on the "How did it go" and "how are things?" emails as I am not going anywhere so there is no need to check up on me, whilst also not ever really appreciating the drag on my time repeating the same line as someone clearly did not read the TOS to be asking that. I appreciate that you are excited and/or nervous, but this means taking 15 minutes out of my day to reply to you that I may need on what is already a very tight schedule, especially this week, as the move is not helping free up time.
PLEASE TRY TO AVOID SCHEDULING LIVE TIME WITH ME UNTIL FRIDAY, NOV 25, AND REMEMBER I WILL NOT BE IN THE OFFICE ON NOVEMBER 29 so I cannot do readings or get on the phone that day. I realize I had big ideas and went and booked a few appointments thinking I'd have this done already, so if you booked and need to keep the booking, I will not cancel with you. LIVE TIME IS READINGS, PHONE CONVERSATIONS, AND ONE ON ONE INTERACTIONS WHICH REQUIRE AN APPOINTMENT, HOWEVER EXCESSIVE EMAILS ALSO ARE GOING TO FALL UNDER THIS UMBRELLA FOR A FEW DAYS. Keep in mind, I have a few specific times set aside to be available to do all of my calls and a fair amount of replies. Guess what? It's also when a lot of this moving just ended up falling into being the most convenient for those who are helping us. My schedule is always very tight and right now, if I have to block off that five hours for possible moving transports, then I will. As above, emailing me all of the time is really abusive as is, despite it rarely being the intention. There are days that because a few people needed me to talk them off of a proverbial ledge, I am finding myself with 2 hours of sleep, and no time for my better half. Right now because I depend on the help of others (and Uber) to get this done as I don't drive or own a car, you can imagine that asking me to encourage you for an hour while I'm lugging a bunch of stuff around or fighting an angry parrot to get back in it's cage is not going to be something that should be required of me outside of life or death situations. TL:DR, no readings for a few days, and my replies might be a bit slow.
For the love of all things holy and unholy, please follow the freakin' rules. In the last four days, I've had people literally brag in a few cases about how they broke my rules without realizing they totally did break them. Having no time to comfort someone while they became upset for ignoring/not reading the TOS and having me point it out gently (yes, people still get upset), I just didn't say anything, but I do make a note of such things. If you like my services, you probably should follow the rules.
Lastly DO NOT GET A CONSULTATION WITHOUT BEING READY TO GET THE SERVICE. Moving is EXPENSIVE, and it's a bit like making me work for free when I got nothing to spare right now. If you're dealing with a budget, (which I completely relate to at the moment,) you can just tell me that even though I don't hide my rates or have any hidden charges. Please DO NOT take anywhere from 30 minutes to several hours if you have no intention of making the purchase shortly thereafter. Maybe I'll say no or you'll decide the available options do not suit your needs, and that's fine and I won't hold it against you, but you shouldn't ever be getting a consultation without the idea in mind that you will get the service, and so should we come to an agreement, you should be ready to purchase within a day or two of the consultation and no later.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME READING THIS... I have to go wrestle some angry parrots and move more of our things. HOPEFULLY we will be done soon! But in the meanwhile, keep in mind while I am happily accepting new business, that readings and other live time may be limited for a few days.
~Cat
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