PRO ---- crastination
 

I've been procrastinating for weeks about the growing pile of admin on my desk. I hope you can hear me invoking the advice I gave you, Dana, loudly all day today. God but it's so HARD to make myself just deal with each bit of paper as it comes up. Even though some of it has been SO EASY to deal with once I actually just got on with it!
And now I've got to the bit I really RESENT having to do. Once upon a time I had a part time job in a worthy company. It went bust. It restarted. It ceased trading before it went bust again. I have agreed to do caretaker business management for nothing until it can afford to hire a business manager. It's something I really do NOT need on top of my other more immediate concerns but I can't let my friends down on this one.
BumMER.
Back to the job, Limey!

limey I feel your pain. I have a zillion thing that have to be done today because the IRS SAYS SO and because the meeting is tonight and because they need doing every Monday by 1pm ...and look what I'm doing. on the plus side, all my laundry's done...... :rolleyes:

Tax was one of my bugbears too - that was one of the EASY ones!

So it's taken me an hour and three quarters to type up some metting notes which should have taken 10 minutes. And now I've STILL got all that other admin sh1t to deal with and I'm SO inclined to stop because I think I've acheived something when actually I've not done much because of all that PRO-crarse-tination.
Oh GAWD!
Back to the job, Limey!

Help me!
Make it stop!
Please - when can I do something more pleasurable?
HELP!
Back to the job, Limey!

I not done no tax returns yet. I did the 1pm scrip order -but I left it so late I had to submit (12:56), work out what I'd missed and then phone up and add them :lol:. And I've done the news for the school weekly packet (which could have waited until midnight). Gotta phone the tax people, create one or two returns, go to the PO to file them, create a budget for the swim team, process a few swim team appliation forms and forward the weekly email to those not yet on the email list....... and what am i doing, again? :lol:

pick up thr next sheet Limey. What is it? can you do it all in one go them get a cup of tea?

mmm.... tea.... brb, honest......

Oh NOES! I've got to a really difficult layer (pre-Cambrian)!
My mother's council tax rebate (for the house she stayed in for a fortnight before being shipped via three hospitals to a nursing home)
Long overdue company return for a company which ceased trading eight years ago and the affairs of which I'm trying to finally finalise
Returned cheque in respect of above company from a bloke who had been at that address until recently - what happened? Did he die?
Makes paying some arrears on my national insurance seem like the fun option next.

do the national insurance one. you need to protect you #1

And then can I stop for today/ PLEEEEZE!

we'll see when you've done it....

I've fed the snake!
I've set up the account details for online bank transfer of NI payment, but am awaiting "confirmation" of these details.
Can I go now miss? And do the rest on Wednesday (am wurking tomorrow).
Please?

No. One more.

i just acquired an extra tax return due tomorrow. that's two tomorrow and one Monday but thankfully none overdue. grrrrrr. now where in the hell did the checkbook go when we cleared out the house for thor's party on Thursday. guess I'm going to have to spend forever in line at the post office tomorow....

i did another load of laundry, though.

Just one?

Have tried to do belated online filing of company return of said dormant company - am now waiting for the Authorities to mail me a 2nd authorisation code snailmail.
Have found a phone number of a total stranger (to me) who may be able to explain where/why the bloke disappeared but the number is engaged and, given that I can't think why he's disappeared except for reason stated in above post about pre-Cambrian layer I don't feel I can leave a message.
Account details for NIC payment still not confirmed.
Can I stop now?

No, make sure that NIC payment is estasblished. ;)
I feel for you, I too am a terrible procrastinator. I have a big stack of personal mail to go through - energy assistance letter, medical forms to fill out, letter from the state of Colorado about something - looks important, but I'm too busy on my computer.

Limey, you may rest.

I ran out of laundry to do. ? Have found correct checkbook, can generate tax returns and prepare for mailing tonight, after meeting. RLY. have made budget for meeting tonight (in 10 minutes, better go........ttfn).

Monster - you've no idea how much it helped to have you urging me on yesterday! I forced myself to find ways doing one more thing for YOU and did more than I would have done otherwise. Today is admin day off - more tomorrow.
Samiam - there was a banking pause that I couldn't overcome yesterday. The payment was made this morning. Thank you for your concern!

I did the tax returns before I collollaspsed! Today I have to file them. And be chauffeur for my friend. in beest's disgusting car. And apply for a paying job. and clean the house and empty the garage and do more admin....... :lol:

glad it worked for you.

my friend called to say she overslept, hold off for a half hour -maybe I can make the car more presentable in that time. Or maybe just waste time here.....

well I did clean beest's disgusting car. after I chauffered my friend about and decided it gave me the skeeves. there were still monkey innards in the driver footwell. ffs. he says it smells funny and is weird shiny now. ...and he was most pissed that I called it disgusting. srsly though, anything worse than the windstar IS a health violation on wheels. and it was worse. much much worse. and the toothpaste on the backseat hindered rather than helped, despite being a cleaning product.

I just can't bear the thought of starting to gut my mother's rental property today for a[n indoor] car-boot sale on Saturday.
So I've voluntarily come home for admin day the sequel today!
So far I have procrastinated by getting the dinner on.
Form filling.
Ugh.
Back to the job, Limey!

NUL points!
 

God did I do a lot of nothing at all yesterday!
BUT ... I did get The Authorities off my back about the long dormant company, and apologise to a former colleague about my dilatoriness on that front.
And this morning I've filed two bits of paper and binned two more (nagging letters from The Authorities). So, I'm chipping away, chipping away ...

Don't forget to reward yourself, Limey. Get five bits done, then take a tea break and a walk (anything that gets you away from the pile 'o crap).

When I went back to get my CS degree I had to do stuff like this to slog through all the math classes I had to take. Then at the end of each semester I bought myself a CD or something.

Thanks dar, but I spend far too much time planning my rewards by netsurfing!
Today I gained two days (i.e. and tomorrow as well) by my part-time boss changing his plans.
And hoped I'd use them wisely. So far not much.
Back to the job, Limey!

I'm in the same place again too.....

somebody drag my fingers from this keyboard and mouse......

I gots me the best pro-crarse-tination excuse. Some actual translation work! Beats the hell out of my own personal admin any day. (I'll be back at the coalface tomorrow!)

I did a load of laundry and got a pot-roast on. i need to mow the lawn

YAY monster! WTG (wot, MORE laundry!?!?!?!????)

I have three kids...

fucking lawnmower ran out of gas and I can't restart it.

OH bu55er!
See ya tomorrow!