Wheeee!

I'd start this post out by jokingly saying that I'm manic-depressive, except that I know people who really are. Me, I'm just a little more rollercoaster-y than average.

This has definitely been an "up" phase lately. I noticed it last weekend, after returning from the hospital run for John's grandmother. With John still up in Alpena at the hospital, I had a whole weekend to myself, with only one thing to do: move my mother's stuff out of her apartment. With Brian, Julianna, and Chris's help [*], that took half a day, leaving me with a day and a half to fill. I ended up making it into an "ought to" weekend, as in "*sigh* I really ought to do something about [insert random thing here]". Every time I encountered something that made me sigh, I dealt with it (to a point; to cover *everything* that makes me sigh would take roughly a decade). None of it was high priority, because anything that's high priority that makes you say "I really ought to..." gets done quickly, before it hits the point where you're sighing over it.

While that means that last weekend was full of annoyances, it also means that there's a lot fewer things just hanging around and making me sigh. I also spent a fair amount of time cleaning out some of Mom's stuff from the basement, and I spent two and a half hours outside weeding one of my larger gardens. Monday, my back hurt like hell, so I spent most of the day sitting with my laptop. I continued the "ought to" trend and cleaned out several electronic things that made me sigh as well.

So now a week later, I have a bunch of pointless-but-soul-draining problems fixed. Mom is completely moved out, utilities shut off, etc etc, so her cash flow is a little better (which means we have to lend her less each month, so our cash flow is a little better). My refrigerator is full of food for the next week, my part of billing ("add new stuff into the system") is done and ready for the next stage, and I plugged a cash leak for our business. Other owners got some money from the company, and I've set up this year's benefit addition for our employees, which is a retirement plan. I fixed an ongoing issue with the way bills are formatted (stemming from an upgrade in a converter that's totally not under our control).

Life is good.


[*] Alex helped too. He put all sorts of light objects in the truck and my car. Most of them were even Mom's. It's funny as hell to watch a three-year-old who is determined to haul an end table into a truck.

Wheeee!

I'd start this post out by jokingly saying that I'm manic-depressive, except that I know people who really are. Me, I'm just a little more rollercoaster-y than average.

This has definitely been an "up" phase lately. I noticed it last weekend, after returning from the hospital run for John's grandmother. With John still up in Alpena at the hospital, I had a whole weekend to myself, with only one thing to do: move my mother's stuff out of her apartment. With Brian, Julianna, and Chris's help [*], that took half a day, leaving me with a day and a half to fill. I ended up making it into an "ought to" weekend, as in "*sigh* I really ought to do something about [insert random thing here]". Every time I encountered something that made me sigh, I dealt with it (to a point; to cover *everything* that makes me sigh would take roughly a decade). None of it was high priority, because anything that's high priority that makes you say "I really ought to..." gets done quickly, before it hits the point where you're sighing over it.

While that means that last weekend was full of annoyances, it also means that there's a lot fewer things just hanging around and making me sigh. I also spent a fair amount of time cleaning out some of Mom's stuff from the basement, and I spent two and a half hours outside weeding one of my larger gardens. Monday, my back hurt like hell, so I spent most of the day sitting with my laptop. I continued the "ought to" trend and cleaned out several electronic things that made me sigh as well.

So now a week later, I have a bunch of pointless-but-soul-draining problems fixed. Mom is completely moved out, utilities shut off, etc etc, so her cash flow is a little better (which means we have to lend her less each month, so our cash flow is a little better). My refrigerator is full of food for the next week, my part of billing ("add new stuff into the system") is done and ready for the next stage, and I plugged a cash leak for our business. Other owners got some money from the company, and I've set up this year's benefit addition for our employees, which is a retirement plan. I fixed an ongoing issue with the way bills are formatted (stemming from an upgrade in a converter that's totally not under our control).

Life is good.


[*] Alex helped too. He put all sorts of light objects in the truck and my car. Most of them were even Mom's. It's funny as hell to watch a three-year-old who is determined to haul an end table into a truck.