Yeah, I'm kinda moody as well for two reasons:
-This Summer blew and the fact that October has had the warmest weather all year long doesn't really cheer me up;
-The other thing is that I'm about 3 months away from losing my Social Security extemptions, ie the real bane of all freelance workers.
To put it in context, under portuguese law, when you start working as a freelancer, you are generally entitled to two years of making no payments to SS, provided that your earnings are below the mininum brackett (you still have to deal with the IRS and VAT regardless, but that's beside the point). This year I expect to exceed the mininum brackett to which I will start making monthy payments starting from January of 2015, I just hope it won't eat away too much at my monthly income.