Son of Sick Days
| So my youngest daughter Sam had the stomach flu last Tuesday; I had it Thursday (which just killed Valentine's Day); my husband came down with it on Friday (killing any attempt at a late Valentine's Day); and then my oldest daughter Cassie caught the bug veeeeeeeery early Saturday morning. And she is still sick today. The stomach flu not only wiped out my family, it also killed my work week. Almost all of my waking hours the past several days have been spent tending to puking family members or washing up after them. I have done so much laundry I should open my own cleaners, and after a surprise bout of projectile vomiting last night courtesy of my oldest, I have had to disinfect my dining room from top to bottom AND wash all my dishes and silverware because my husband put away the stuff in the dishwasher which he thought was clean but in actuality it had just been puked upon. Did I get any work done this past week? Well, I focused on small tasks that I could do between bouts of someone vomiting - mainly handling e-mail and writing crits for my writing group. I did need to do that, but that's not the paying work. All my paying gigs got put on the back burner, and I am hoping beyond hope that today I get three free hours to work on them. On top of that, I need to finish up my local business taxes. Now there's a real headache. I hate dealing with financial things, and doing taxes is one of the biggest pains I know of. I think I'm getting better at it. At least now I keep all of my receipts for a year in one manila envelope and all my invoices in another. I do the same with e-mail receipts and invoices - just put them in separate, easy-to-find folders in Outlook. Now if I could just get the hang of Quicken, I'd be okay. I keep making the mistake of filing all my income under business, instead of salary, which means it all ends up in the expense category instead of the income category. Kind of screws things up for me. I need to get through all this secondary work stuff, I need to get past all the being sick and cleaning up after, and I need to get back to the real work - the writing and the art. And I seriously need to focus on the writing. While I'm writing like gang-busters for the podcast, I'm not getting much done on the novel I'm supposed to be doing. I don't know how I'm going to balance things out yet, but I'll probably have to steal a few minutes today to refigure my work schedule again. I need to write at least 200 words a day in the novel. Otherwise it's never getting done. Labels: Today's Work, Write-At-Home Mom, Writing Business |
posted by Helen at 12:02 PM
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