The Perils of Being a Single Working Mother of 3 in NYC

So I finally got a long overdue raise yesterday. Boss C called me into her office in the morning, told me about the great job I've been doing this and that blahblahblah, and then told me the new # they were offering me additionally a week. See, I don't know how it works for you ppl with "real jobs" with "real benefits," but since I freelance, I get paid a daily rate and then they just keep adding more money for the raise.

When she told me the #, well I was fucking floored. That much additional to my daily rate? Wow, they really are atoning for all of the intellectual abuse they've flayed on me since I've started here. I wanted to hug my boss, cry tears of joy, run across a snow-capped Swiss mountain towards my hero, Saif Ali Khan. Hundreds of back-up dancers in metallic tights would be doing the Bollywood-form of the chicken dance in this fantasy.

But then I made the mistake of actually listening to what she said. The number she told me was not additional to my daily rate, but rather my overall weekly income.

Mixed feelings of perplexion, disgust, and then denial raced through my mind.

Recently I've been meaning to go in to ask for a raise, which I should've done b/c that way I could've stated the percentage increase I was looking for - rather than my company pre-emptively striking that scenario with their "parsimonious" offer. (I place that word in quotations b/c I honestly only learned its definition last night and wanted to emphasize how much of a big boy I am now using 25cent words.)

In the end, its extra money into my checking account, and anything helps when I'm a poor, single mother of 3 just tryin to make it through the day. Kind of like Charlize in North Country, Meryl in Silkwood, and Sally in Norma Rae. Except they worked blue collar jobs, were the subject of gender discrimination and/or on-the-job death or injury, and may or may have not been single mothers of 3. Basically, I've never seen any of those movies. Any chance to starfuck Charlize and Meryl is good with me though.