I’m Tired and Here’s Why

I took 4 hours of vacation time yesterday afternoon so I could come home and fill out my tax worksheet. To do that, I have to dig through the files, and I dread the job, and put it off as long as possible. Tomorrow is our tax appointment, bright and early. 8:30am. It is also quilting, so Louie will be going to the appointment without me again. He doesn’t mind.

I didn’t do my tax worksheet yesterday. Instead, I came home and made chili for supper, and I just don’t know where the time went.

So today, while I was digging for information, I also decided to pull all the 2009 stuff out, put it in manila envelopes to store, and start over with fresh files for 2010. In the process, I also found lots of stuff that I could shred, and didn’t need anymore.                                         I shredded two tall kitchen garbage bags of stuff.                                                                I had stuff in both file cabinets. Now, I want you to know, that out of 8 drawers, only 3 actually have files. The rest are just a place for other stuff. I also shredded a lot personal papers from the past that brought me heartaches and unpleasant memories. They’re gone! Yippee!                                                                   There were documents that needed copied, so ‘Anne’ had to sit on the floor for a bit, and get her ‘behind’ off the copier!                                                                  With all the other chores I was doing at the same time, I was dragging shredded paper throughout the house. I worked on this from about 9:30am until 6pm. During this time, I also took an hour for lunch to visit Louie, washed and dried clothes, baked a batch of cookies for quilting tomorrow, and cleaned the kitchen.                                                     I took insurance booklets apart and shredded them, leaving the thin hardware you see on the table. I punched holes in 401K papers and put them in binders.                                        I was actually tripping over papers, etc, but I finally found the floor! Yay!                                 Oh, how I love organization! Unfortunately, this was only the tip of the iceberg. I have many many hours left of spaces to go through and weed out. My shredder will be busy and Goodwill will love me by the time I am done.                                                                                               Ahhhh…..that feels much better, and I’m tired.

Be blessed and have a great weekend!

Michelle