POST APRIL 15

I have been trying to get organized after 4 months of working almost 6 days a week.  I call it "shoveling" out the house although it is not really that bad.  I always have trouble with the mail and paperwork while working.  I have no desire to read when I get home from work so now I am throwing out the junk mail and making sure that I did not miss anything important.  I am dusting and trying to spot deep clean but going through the house and getting it in shipshape condition.  Once everything is surfaced clean then I can go deeper.  I am trying to get reacquainted with my new camera.  I literally forgot everything about it but did some rereading today and can now try to work on figuring it out.  The weather has not really been conducive for outdoor activities but looks promising today.

Word of the Day:  Shipshape (adj) Characterized by order and neatness; free from disorder.

4 MONTHS LATER

I cannot believe it has been since Christmas since my last posting.  To be honest, this was a very long tax season and I did not do anything but work and rest on my days off.  I did have a medical issue running concurrently with working and after 22 years I really had no interest in chatting with people in the evening after talking all day.  So we socialized just a tad.  We did go over to a friend's house on many Sundays to watch Downton Abbey on DVD.  That was a nice evening, relaxing and relatively short.  It involved supper and a one hour TV show.  I prepared more tax returns than last year (328) and the last day was really busy for me.  I rarely have clients come in on that day but this year 3 did and they came in at 5, 6 and 7:30PM.  I got home around 8:45 pm but for the first time in 22 years, I did not work on the 16th.  I celebrated my first day off with lunch with my best friend, shopping and buying two blouses and stopping at another store that I had not been to since they changed their layout.  It was a great day.  I am trying to clean the house and that should happen since the weather is so quirky that it makes going outside a non event.