Yep, I'm rattling my little tin cup along the bars of my cell. I'm officially in lockdown. The sheriff (aka the CFO, domestic Goddess, The Boss, my wife) has decreed "No Fishing Until All the Taxes are Filed."
(editorial note: actually, I created the 'lockdown' idea to attempt to motivate myself this year. It hasn't worked, but the authorities decided to enforce it as law anyway.)
So here I am in my cell. It's like a prison. A horrible place, painted all green on the inside. But instead of using a hacksaw blade to escape, my implements consist of receipts, spreadsheets, and laptop. Being a small business owner and employer, the paperwork is at least triple what it was before I allegedly became my own boss.
The only way out of this dank, depressed funk is tedious work, probably about 12 more hours of it after the 4 I did today. THEN... well, then I can dust off a couple of rods, wait for the wind to calm a bit, then see if any lawn trout have migrated back north yet. Just to get back into the swing of things before I hit the water out west in a couple of weeks.
If you do the things you have to do when you have to do them, then someday you can do the things you want to do when you want to do them.I must escape and find that stash of 5-weights. Soon.
Psuedo-encouraging words I once read somewhere
I guess I have to consider myself lucky. I'm a terrible procrastinator. My wife can't sit still for a minute if there is something that needs to be done. All I have to do is outwait her. Voila...she does it and I go fishing. :)
ReplyDeleteI have the good fortune to have found a woman who's more than my equal. Things go downhill pretty quickly when we see who can outwait the other longest!
DeleteI said outwait...not outwit. There's no way I could outwit her.
DeleteI'm with Howard, my wife is my personal secretary--I don't time to keep up with balancing a check book, but I do have time to fish!!!
ReplyDeleteI guess I really only have two words with which to reply:
DeleteGood luck.
:)
Taxes are only one part of the year. The rest of the time you can fish.
ReplyDeleteKevin, you're mostly right. I still have to file 3 more sets of quarterly payments and/or returns (small business fun!) But yeah, you're right. I think this one crossed the line into whining, and I have a strict NO WHINING policy here. I'll submit myself for discipline immediately.
DeleteBTW, restrictions were lifted at 8:45 PM last night. All good.