I need your help; we need to do an intervention. I'm overworked & underpaid. I can't get a break. It is like Chad's life is centered around me. A Christmas Intervention - Christmas 2008
He uses me for all sorts of work – from editing films for RoomMate Productions or his sister's wedding picture slide show.
If he isn't editing, he's using me to update his websites, his blog, or his writer's blog, or author Tosca Lee's site, not to mention his side consulting with ‘Bring' the Traffic. Checking his email is just a given.
To make matters worse, every weekend he brings home his work laptop from his new job and has the audacity to set “it” right next to me. This only means that during the day he is cheating on me with this 'other' laptop to do various marketing work.
I can't escape and hide. I feel like I'm in prison with the mouse, printer, external hard drive, and iPod and plugged into me – at least I don't have a virus.
Some weekends, he'll pack me up and drag me to a coffee shop around Omaha or to Lincoln and then will continue to hit me with his fingers.
The only joy I get is when he downloads pictures of his family and friends and even some of his “nieces” and “nephews” - he gained one of each this year. Funny videos are always a hit with me too.
He doesn't even let me watch TV, if I'm not in his room; I'm on the coffee table so he can view me or the TV. Sometimes his extremely furry cat jumps on the coffee table and puts her head over my monitor to see what Chad is doing. Eventually she runs off, thank goodness, my screen is already dusty - I don't need cat hair added to it.
All the work I do, from helping him pay bills, to check emails, to browse websites – you'd at least think he'd let me have some time off – but no. This is why I need your help. We need to weed Chad off me and push him out into the real world.
Mostly, we need to convince him to use me to write books & screen plays – I'm okay with both of those.
To top it off, he is using me to print Christmas letters and mailing labels. On that note, Merry Christmas!
Help me close the lid on this.
Sincerely,
Chad's laptop Delly