I have been trying hard to catch up this week on everything since, I guess, the beginning of March. Things are getting done, but then, of course, new things pop up.
I actually have the stuff on my desk down to 2 piles - to do and to scan. The to “enter” pile is gone - yay!
I managed to lower the to scan pile today - I scanned in the tables of contents for 5 issues of a history magazine I read. (I scan in the table of contents of magazines we keep for research. This allows me to either search all of the tables of contents in a file to see if there are any related articles to a specific subject or to “page” through all the tables of contents without having to take out all the magazines.) I also quickly scanned in the instruction manuals for the two new outdoor light fixtures that we bought and installed. Again, easier to find the instructions in a scanned file than by going through all the instruction books. I deleted the instruction manual of light fixture that one of these replaced as it stopped working right and was tossed out after being replaced. The other is a light in a place where we never had one before. I marked the instruction books with the year and will put them in a file to toss at the end of next year, so I will have them for now if anything comes up and they have to be returned. The replacement light is next to the side entry garage door and I scanned an enlarged copy of how to adjust the light (it is motion triggered), which husband sealed in plastic and we have put it in the garage for convenient access if needed.
My embroidery chapter is in the middle of the renewal period so I have that out in the “to do” pile as I will have to forward the dues collected for our National and our Region to them at the end of the month. I also have not finished dealing with the renewals for our reenactment unit (also in the “to do” pile) - I have a few new members who I have to add our to our list (already sent their dues to the National of same so if they went to a National event they will be on the list of unit members). I then have to make the membership lists for both groups for our members to use. This is especially important for the reenactment unit as we have events coming up, as well as our monthly meeting and the unit commander needs the new members info so they receive their notices.
I renewed medications for myself and my husband - we need to do so quarterly. I waited a bit longer than normal due to everything else going on and our weekly boxes when filled by me last Saturday night were short some pills, that have now been added. (I keep an additional week of pills laid out in our travel pill boxes so I could have pulled the needed pills from same if we had a problem getting them. I keep the travel boxes filled as it makes it easier if I have a cold or such and husband has to fill the regular boxes that we use in the house for our pills - they are counted and sorted and he just needs to put them in the house boxes. Houses boxes are in individual boxes - a weekly box by day for each of us for morning bills - in our bedroom - an lunch and dinner box for each of us in the kitchen, and a bedtime box for husband in the kitchen. The travel boxes are one set of boxes with separate sections for the times of day and can be removed from the tray which holds it. I put all of the pills for both of us in each day’s box so that pulling out the box has all our pills for the day - as opposed to the boxes we use in the house where each box has a week’s worth of pills for one of us for a certain time of day. (I hope that makes sense.)
We are also in the middle of dealing with insurance for our reenactment unit. One is an accident policy for our members (we do have black powder guns being used as well as an open fire at events) which, after discussion with the rest of the board during the year, we checked and we are increasing the very low coverage we had before. That bill should be here soon as it is due this month. The other policy is a liability policy for the unit. We have been looking for a new insurance company. The one we had up to last year is no longer writen in our state as of last year. We found this out at the last minute last year. We found an alternative last year when we needed to find one extremely quickly. We wanted to see what else was out there now that we had a chance, plus we figured that additional companies might now be writing policies in our state now that the company we used to have was no longer doing so - and they would have had time to start doing so. Much effort and time has been put into this - mostly by husband - and after all this, the policy we found last year, is still the only alternative.
We did have a call from mom the other day asking us to come and do a favor for her. She had gotten a delivery of a new paper shredder. It had been left in front of her front door - so she could not open the door, so could we come and please bring it in for her. We did so and husband also set up the shredder for her and made sure it worked - that took just over an hour.
Husband also had us finish dewinterizing the RV water tanks. This takes time to fill the tanks repeated times - first time with bleach added to the water and which is run the water lines of the RV, then let sit and then let out through the clean water let out (as opposed to having to let it all into the dirty water tanks and then dump those tanks - which cannot be let run into the street, as clean water from the clean water let out can be done). The tanks are then refilled with plain, clean water and let out the clean water let out several times to get rid of the bleach taste/smell. Wet job and time wasting, but needs to be done.
Today husband had a new project for us to do. We siphoned out the gasoline in the snow blower into a gas “can”. That gas and the gas left in the other can were poured into our cars for use. The snow blower was then allowed to run to use up the gas in it. If this is not done the gas in the snow blower goes bad over the summer and it cannot be started in the fall/winter for checking that it works and for us.
But these odd tasks are getting done and the piles on the desk are going down.
I also paid our business credit card bill today - out in the mail tomorrow and tomorrow afternoon our will pay our main credit card bill and it will go out in the mail on Friday - when we will also transfer money from savings to checking to cover it. (The money to the business checking account to pay the business credit card was transferred last week.) All bills are paid in full every time. (Well 2 exceptions over the decades which had specific reasons not to pay in full.)
THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK -
If you fall behind - slow and steady will get you caught back up even if new things pop up that have to be done.
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