Well this is the first post of the third year of my blog. (Imagine balloons rising, confetti falling, and triumphant music.) Understand this is probably my 4th or 5th attempt at a blog. None of the earlier ones had a second post. For a procrastinator, this is pretty good. Other than the recent post which was scheduled to post and did not (I am sure it was my fault in how I set up the scheduling) and the post that followed it and was posted a day later, I have managed to post them on time - even better for a procrastinator. I want to thank you all for reading my blog, especially those who follow me. Knowing you are out there reading the blog helps me keep writing it. (Imagine applause for you.)
So, how has being a blogger been for me? Well, I appreciate those of you who follow me, but I had expected a larger number of followers. I am not sure if the low numbers are related to lack of interest in my blog or people not finding my blog. For my personal happiness, I presume it is the latter. (Tell your friends - have them tell their friends.) But I am aware it might be the former. My original idea of telling how and where I store things (and why) seemed terribly dry to me when I read the early posts back after posting them, so I switched to more of a week by week story of what I did right, what I did wrong, and my attempts to keep everything up to date and taken care of. It reads better to me and I hope to you. I am also interested in what YOU think - please feel free to reply to the blog itself as well as any posts - do you wonder how I deal with something or other?
September is over and with it I hope I will have a chance to breathe.
I managed to get the needed information to my client from last week. Her fax has never worked and therefore I faxed the needed form to a friend of hers. His fax did not work right in accepting faxes. I tried faxing a number of times - with my husband standing there making noises about how much each attempt was costing us - our home telephone is rarely used for making calls as I have unlimited cell phone minutes, so each call was a “toll call” to NYC, plus the page that was printed each time to tell me the fax did not go through. Since doing something over and over and expecting a different result is the definition of stupidity, I called the client and told her that I would mail her the form. Friday she would not be at work as that evening would be a Jewish holiday and she is closed on the weekend. I telephoned her on Monday and she had received the form and faxed it with needed attachment to the number I had given her - hopefully it was in time for them to process before her monthly fee for minimum use was due to be debited from the account.
I also finished a tax return for another client - it was on extension so it is not late. That was promptly mailed out. I do have one client whose return I have not done - she and her husband owe me information from 3 years ago to do their returns and I keep pushing her as she will lose a sizeable refund if she does not file her 2014 return by April 15 of 2018. (If you have unfiled income tax returns - don’t let that happen to you - if you have not filed a return within 3 years of its due date you will lose any refund due you. Out to the client 2 weeks before it is due.
Last Sunday we had a reenctment event. It was the first time the unit was doing this event - it was at our headquarters, but the building itself was the focus of the event rather than the unit outside with muskets and crafts. The unit commander could not come after he set it up, so husband, who is assistant commander had to deal with everything - which of course means much work for me. I woke a half hour before the alarm was set to go off on Sunday morning - with a terribly ill stomach. Husband started to panic- what would we do? He had to go as he was in charge and he needed me. I told him that he would go to the event in our car - members get to most events 2 hours before it is to start to have everything set up - and I would come later in our van, unless my stomach did not recover. He was not happy at driving there alone, being there alone and, more important, me not being well. I went over where the turns are to get there as he is always asking me when driving there - “Is this where I turn?” at the wrong place. (“Remember, you will pass the diner your sister goes to on the right, then you turn left at the light after the Stop and Shop supermarket is on the left. Then you turn left again after the long stretch of nurseries....”) I managed to get there on time for the actual event. We had a quiet day (depending on who you ask we had 20-35 visitors from the public over the day) as there was no publicity for the event. Nice event, good idea, people need to know about it.
I spent yesterday afternoon (Tuesday) getting ready for my embroidery chapter meeting today. We are starting our projects for the year and I needed to print some things for the projects. I also packed up some items to donate - 3 dresses, 2 ladies suits, a rain coat, a Christmas Santa bowl (not even sure who gave it to us), some souvenir gifts from a friend’s travels, and 2 spare coin counting tube sets - anything gone out of the house is good. I also did my “offsite” data backups for today.
Today I had busy day - the meeting, a trip to the bank to exchange my offsite backups, a trip to Goodwill for the donation, check Post Office box, lunch alone... Then when I came home I went through and finished filling in forms and making copies of papers so we can go tomorrow to a workshop/meeting and make sure our paperwork is done and complete to get a senior discount on our real estate taxes. For once I am not procrastinating as they are due before January 1 - plenty of time to fix any problems or missing items. And now I am writing my post.
Not as bad as some weeks in the past month - at least we do not have to wake early day after day and I see an end in sight. Next week is even a bit looser - dentist tomorrow though.
THOUGHT OF THE WEEK -
If you think that you can not do something which is a large job - then do one small bit of it - a first step, then a bit more. It will go quicker than if you just sit and think that the job is too big. I never thought that I would be able to post this regularly for 6 months, let alone 2 years, but a week’s post at a time I have and I plan to keep doing it for at least another year.
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