Last week was rough. I started out relatively productive, but toward midweek I started to go downhill as I caught my husband's cold, which I mentioned in last week's post. I bounced back a bit over the weekend as I started to feel better, but still didn't recover enough to do all the things I had wanted to do.
I also am adding a new category to my weekly rundown: taxes. Since we're into tax season and Tax Day is only two days after the doll show, I'll need to prep for both the doll show and taxes on pretty much a daily basis from now until then. I used to be so organized with my income and expenses throughout the year, maintaining a spreadsheet and filing receipts all year, and now I just have a crate of receipts and a bunch of unorganized email receipts.
But without further ado, here's the rundown:
Writing
Last Monday was the last time I worked on my novel. Obviously being sick I get a pass for that, but I need to get back into the habit this week. On Monday I had a 7-day streak of working on it every day. Right now I have a 7-day streak of not working on it every day. I don't want the current streak to continue.
I did get a social media post up last Monday, but that was the only one.
Decluttering and Organization
This didn't happen — too sick. I will probably have to shelve some of these projects until after the doll show so that I can focus on getting ready for that (and on doing taxes).
Dolls
This also didn't happen, but with the doll show coming up, I anticipate I'll be making up for all year's worth of neglect within the next three weeks.
Taxes (New Category)
Over the weekend, I started going through emails for income and expense records. Right now I'm not sorting through what everything is, just chucking it all into a designated folder for the year, and I'll start going through it when I start building out my income and expense spreadsheets. I'm going to be using a new system this year, so it'll take a little work to get it all set up, but I think it'll work better for me when it's all finished.
Lessons Learned
I am grateful to the article I spotted that reminded me Tax Day was fast approaching. I've gotten so bad at procrastinating and I want to create better habits — get back to tracking income and expenses throughout the year, if possible, so that there's less work at the end of the year. Rebuilding my entire year in April is labor intensive and incredibly stressful.
I suspect I won't be as good about writing almost every day over the next three weeks. I'm still going to try, but I'm also going to give myself grace if I don't always meet that goal. Now through April 12th, however, my goal will be to work on doll rehab or show prep every single day, and to work on tax prep at least a little every day from now until Tax Day (or until it's done).
I am definitely going to need some recovery time once the show and taxes are all done!
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