Working First Client Gig, PHP/MySQL and Linux

I'm working on the Client A gig now for $1K. Although the client is super-nice to me, he's annoying because he has terrible feature creep, no written statement of work except some loose notes, and the fixed budget of $1K was only something I would agree to because I was trying to get back on my feet again, pay some bills, and hopefully I could get follow-on gigs with this guy. So I've been working non-stop, from 9am to 1am every day with very little break, busting my ass for this cheap $1K contract, and being annoyed because I get little emails that say, "add this," and so on. The carrot on the end of the stick is that I darn well need this check right now to pay some bills, and I darn well need follow-on work that is promised to pay more than $1K per gig.

Last night we had a call together and I tried to nail down what exactly the Phase 1's final set of tasks were to do, and then to quit this and get paid, then move on to a Phase 2 for more work. He annoyed me with about 5 new features requests. I had to deflect all but 2 and was able to convince him as nice as I can that the other 3 should go into a Phase 2.

However, working out of my home, it has been a joy to finally get back to doing what I do best, PHP and programming on Linux, and I get to do my work in my sweats. I don't even have to shower or shave except every other day if I don't want to do so. I don't have a commute except to interact on the Internet. If I could just get clients that don't do the feature-creep thing with me, have more reasonable expectations, and pay me just slightly better, I could have a little more free time and could have a reasonable life where I'm not glued to the keyboard, 24x7.