Work/money (and a gym note)

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As some of you know, I took a deep breath a few days ago and sent off, along with my most recent invoice for freelance proofreading, a cover note saying that as of April 1, I was raising my freelance rate to $22/hour. (They'd been getting $18/hour for a long time--long enough that this is slightly over cumulative inflation for the period in question.) Yesterday I got back a note saying that this rate was fine, complimenting me on the quality of my work, and adding that they're going back to ten issues/year, which will mean a bit more work. That part will make more difference to the total income involved than the rate increase: I do seven or eight hours of work per issue, and I suspect the client thought both "she does good work" and "we can afford a couple of hundred dollars a year extra here."

In some sense, I should have done this sooner. But my own shyness about asking for things aside, it was easier to ask now, when we could have afforded for me to lose this gig, than when the $140 or so a month was a significant piece of the household budget.

I went to the gym after work yesterday, despite being tired. It doesn't seem to have helped me sleep last night, though.

Cardio, 17:30, top heart rate 144

Leg press, 220 pounds, 3 sets of 15
Chest press, 65 pounds, 12; 55 pounds, 9
Calf raise, 80 pounds, 15; 75 pounds, 2 sets of 15
Balance ~fly, 55 pounds, 15 with each leg forward; 50 pounds, 15 with each leg forward

Crunches, 30, 30, 13 (the second time I felt the need to stop mid-set, I decided it was enough of that exercise)
Back arches, 2 sets of 17
Yoga tree, 5 sets of {3 on each leg}

Balance lateral raise, 2.5 pounds each hand, 2 sets of 15
Balance squats, 10
Biceps curls, 10 pounds each hand, 2 sets of 20

Stretches