How I stopped worrying and learned to love the war....

[xie_xie_xie]

So, tonight vamphile pointed out I missed four typos in her latest chapter in the Keeping Series, and since that's really unlike me, she wondered if I was maybe stressed out.

I burst into tears and I agreed that I was. And do you know, I've fallen right back into every stupid workaholic pattern I had before I got whooping cough? I'm working until midnight or later every night, letting my deadlines hit too close together, making bad use of my time, not leaving room in my schedule for fun,  or for unexpected things, for daily life like oh I don't know, that wildly unpredictable need to buy groceries now and then, phone sex, episode watching, fic writing, long walks with the dogs, and shoe shopping.... and doing my billing.

I haven't done my billing since February.

So vamph listened to this and asked me a few pertinent questions such as.... "Are you paying your quarterly taxes?"

I affirmed that I was.

"And your accountant based your quarterly estimates on the annual income you expected to bill for this year?"

I agreed that was the case.

"So in addition to letting the people who you haven't billed use your money interest free, you are paying the government taxes on money you haven't even received yet?"

I frowned. "Yes. Yes, I am."

"And are you really okay," she asked, "with letting the government use your money interest-free to finance an immoral war of occupation that you don't believe in?"

And there you have it. We're in Iraq, it's wrong, and it's my fault.

Comments

[zaipixie.livejournal.com]

You HAVE to slow down! Your body can't take the pace you set out. Hence - not unlikely - the whooping cough....

How are you with scheduling? Are you the type of person that can make one and stick to it? If you are - make one. And don't make one where you leave "grey areas" - because that will just undermine the whole thing. Do a strict schedule and stick to it. Try it for a week. Please?

[xie-xie-xie.livejournal.com]

I can stick to a schedule, but I keep saying, "Three days is plenty of time to write that article," agreeing to a deadline, and then realizing I have not allotted time to:

Sleep
Eat
Walk the dogs
Grocery shop
Vacuum
Do laundry
Have a life etc

And of course, not allotted any time for anything to go not as expected.

I have issues with saying "no."