Today I am taking a break from the despised soft-cleaning to tackle the even more hated annual accounts.
Or I should be.
I keep wandering into the dining room, surveying the big box which contains all of my 2017-18 paperwork, sighing deeply, then wandering back out again. I have made half-hearted attempts to tidy up in the workroom, until my conscience forced me to do something useful.
ANYTHING!
So I printed out a set of labels and stuck them onto envelopes which will contain the month-by-month expenses and receipts. However, far from being buoyed by this admittedly paltry progress, I felt annoyed at my lack of anything approaching progress.
So I have decided that what I REALLY need is a growlery.
Scene: Sandra is dallying from room to room, trying to find something to do, nominally more urgent than starting the annual accounts. A small, but menacing growl, alerts her to the presence of Small Dog, who has deserted her customary spot in the office and is standing in the sitting room doorway.
SD: *self importantly* Whott is this rubish abowt yue kneading a growllury?
Me: *dramatically... throwing myself down on the sofa* It's my restless, questing spirit SD. I am out of sorts and in an ill humour. I need somewhere quiet and soothing to restore my equilibrium.
SD: *derisively* Eckwillibryum? Bollox....Yue knead to wooman upp and just gett on with itt. Growllury indeeed.
*warming to her theme* If eniwun in this hows kneads a growllury itts ME!
Alsew.... beein orl dramatick and kollapsen on the sofar is MY job. Yue ar the karm and kollektid wun!
Me:*tremulously* Oh... but SD.... I am stricken. It's the accounts you know. I simply can't go on..... *sobs into cushion*
SD:*suspiciously* Yure taken the pis.. arrnt yue. Maken fun of me jusst becoss ai am sensitif and hav phyner pheelens. Itts mai artistick tempramint as wel yue kno.
Me:*thoughtfully* Well, yes. Of course. You are indeed the Sarah Bernhardt of the doggy world.
SD:*preening* Ai shal taik thatt as a komplimint!
Me: As you wish SD. As you wish....
Fin
2 comments:
Wa ha, great post!
I'm also into the paperwork nightmare here. Doing one small thing, then rewarding myself with a loooong break. Also, needing to do paperwork suddenly awakens an urgency in me to tackle some project I never even knew was lurking in my subconcious mind. I'm busy making a needle felted bowl. While it was drying in the sun yesterday, Dino stole it and dragged it through the dirt after chewing on it a bit. So today I have to delay paperwork to wash and reshape it.
Sometimes dogs can be really helpful!
Megan.... yes, microactions are definitely the way to go when dealing with unpleasant tasks, like paperwork.
And absolutely.... cleaning and reshaping your bowl must take precedence over everything else. I hope Dino got a treat! ;)
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