PRO ---- crastination

limey · 10-19-2009, 10:41 AM

I've been procrastinating for weeks about the growing pile of admin on my desk. I hope you can hear me invoking the advice I gave you, Dana, loudly all day today. God but it's so HARD to make myself just deal with each bit of paper as it comes up. Even though some of it has been SO EASY to deal with once I actually just got on with it!
And now I've got to the bit I really RESENT having to do. Once upon a time I had a part time job in a worthy company. It went bust. It restarted. It ceased trading before it went bust again. I have agreed to do caretaker business management for nothing until it can afford to hire a business manager. It's something I really do NOT need on top of my other more immediate concerns but I can't let my friends down on this one.
BumMER.
Back to the job, Limey!

monster · 10-19-2009, 10:44 AM

limey I feel your pain. I have a zillion thing that have to be done today because the IRS SAYS SO and because the meeting is tonight and because they need doing every Monday by 1pm ...and look what I'm doing. on the plus side, all my laundry's done......

limey · 10-19-2009, 10:45 AM

Tax was one of my bugbears too - that was one of the EASY ones!

limey · 10-19-2009, 12:08 PM

So it's taken me an hour and three quarters to type up some metting notes which should have taken 10 minutes. And now I've STILL got all that other admin sh1t to deal with and I'm SO inclined to stop because I think I've acheived something when actually I've not done much because of all that PRO-crarse-tination.
Oh GAWD!
Back to the job, Limey!

limey · 10-19-2009, 01:02 PM

Help me!
Make it stop!
Please - when can I do something more pleasurable?
HELP!
Back to the job, Limey!

monster · 10-19-2009, 01:07 PM

I not done no tax returns yet. I did the 1pm scrip order -but I left it so late I had to submit (12:56), work out what I'd missed and then phone up and add them

. And I've done the news for the school weekly packet (which could have waited until midnight). Gotta phone the tax people, create one or two returns, go to the PO to file them, create a budget for the swim team, process a few swim team appliation forms and forward the weekly email to those not yet on the email list....... and what am i doing, again?

monster · 10-19-2009, 01:08 PM

pick up thr next sheet Limey. What is it? can you do it all in one go them get a cup of tea?

monster · 10-19-2009, 01:09 PM

mmm.... tea.... brb, honest......

limey · 10-19-2009, 01:16 PM

Oh NOES! I've got to a really difficult layer (pre-Cambrian)!
My mother's council tax rebate (for the house she stayed in for a fortnight before being shipped via three hospitals to a nursing home)
Long overdue company return for a company which ceased trading eight years ago and the affairs of which I'm trying to finally finalise
Returned cheque in respect of above company from a bloke who had been at that address until recently - what happened? Did he die?
Makes paying some arrears on my national insurance seem like the fun option next.

monster · 10-19-2009, 01:22 PM

do the national insurance one. you need to protect you #1

limey · 10-19-2009, 01:37 PM

And then can I stop for today/ PLEEEEZE!

monster · 10-19-2009, 01:43 PM

we'll see when you've done it....

limey · 10-19-2009, 02:07 PM

I've fed the snake!
I've set up the account details for online bank transfer of NI payment, but am awaiting "confirmation" of these details.
Can I go now miss? And do the rest on Wednesday (am wurking tomorrow).
Please?

monster · 10-19-2009, 02:28 PM

No. One more.

i just acquired an extra tax return due tomorrow. that's two tomorrow and one Monday but thankfully none overdue. grrrrrr. now where in the hell did the checkbook go when we cleared out the house for thor's party on Thursday. guess I'm going to have to spend forever in line at the post office tomorow....

i did another load of laundry, though.

limey · 10-19-2009, 02:35 PM

Just one?

10-19-2009, 10:44 AM	#2
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	limey I feel your pain. I have a zillion thing that have to be done today because the IRS SAYS SO and because the meeting is tonight and because they need doing every Monday by 1pm ...and look what I'm doing. on the plus side, all my laundry's done...... __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

10-19-2009, 10:45 AM	#3
limey Encroaching on your decrees Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: An island within the south-west coast of Scotland Posts: 7,016	Tax was one of my bugbears too - that was one of the EASY ones! __________________ Living it up on the edge ... of civilisation, within the southwest coast of

10-19-2009, 12:08 PM	#4
limey Encroaching on your decrees Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: An island within the south-west coast of Scotland Posts: 7,016	So it's taken me an hour and three quarters to type up some metting notes which should have taken 10 minutes. And now I've STILL got all that other admin sh1t to deal with and I'm SO inclined to stop because I think I've acheived something when actually I've not done much because of all that PRO-crarse-tination. Oh GAWD! Back to the job, Limey! __________________ Living it up on the edge ... of civilisation, within the southwest coast of

10-19-2009, 01:02 PM	#5
limey Encroaching on your decrees Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: An island within the south-west coast of Scotland Posts: 7,016	Help me! Make it stop! Please - when can I do something more pleasurable? HELP! Back to the job, Limey! __________________ Living it up on the edge ... of civilisation, within the southwest coast of

10-19-2009, 01:07 PM	#6
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	I not done no tax returns yet. I did the 1pm scrip order -but I left it so late I had to submit (12:56), work out what I'd missed and then phone up and add them . And I've done the news for the school weekly packet (which could have waited until midnight). Gotta phone the tax people, create one or two returns, go to the PO to file them, create a budget for the swim team, process a few swim team appliation forms and forward the weekly email to those not yet on the email list....... and what am i doing, again? __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

10-19-2009, 10:41 AM	#1
limey Encroaching on your decrees Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: An island within the south-west coast of Scotland Posts: 7,016	PRO ---- crastination I've been procrastinating for weeks about the growing pile of admin on my desk. I hope you can hear me invoking the advice I gave you, Dana, loudly all day today. God but it's so HARD to make myself just deal with each bit of paper as it comes up. Even though some of it has been SO EASY to deal with once I actually just got on with it! And now I've got to the bit I really RESENT having to do. Once upon a time I had a part time job in a worthy company. It went bust. It restarted. It ceased trading before it went bust again. I have agreed to do caretaker business management for nothing until it can afford to hire a business manager. It's something I really do NOT need on top of my other more immediate concerns but I can't let my friends down on this one. BumMER. Back to the job, Limey! __________________ Living it up on the edge ... of civilisation, within the southwest coast of

10-19-2009, 01:08 PM	#7
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	pick up thr next sheet Limey. What is it? can you do it all in one go them get a cup of tea? __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

10-19-2009, 01:09 PM	#8
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	mmm.... tea.... brb, honest...... __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

10-19-2009, 01:16 PM	#9
limey Encroaching on your decrees Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: An island within the south-west coast of Scotland Posts: 7,016	Oh NOES! I've got to a really difficult layer (pre-Cambrian)! My mother's council tax rebate (for the house she stayed in for a fortnight before being shipped via three hospitals to a nursing home) Long overdue company return for a company which ceased trading eight years ago and the affairs of which I'm trying to finally finalise Returned cheque in respect of above company from a bloke who had been at that address until recently - what happened? Did he die? Makes paying some arrears on my national insurance seem like the fun option next. __________________ Living it up on the edge ... of civilisation, within the southwest coast of

10-19-2009, 01:22 PM	#10
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	do the national insurance one. you need to protect you #1 __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

10-19-2009, 01:37 PM	#11
limey Encroaching on your decrees Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: An island within the south-west coast of Scotland Posts: 7,016	And then can I stop for today/ PLEEEEZE! __________________ Living it up on the edge ... of civilisation, within the southwest coast of

10-19-2009, 01:43 PM	#12
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	we'll see when you've done it.... __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

10-19-2009, 02:07 PM	#13
limey Encroaching on your decrees Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: An island within the south-west coast of Scotland Posts: 7,016	I've fed the snake! I've set up the account details for online bank transfer of NI payment, but am awaiting "confirmation" of these details. Can I go now miss? And do the rest on Wednesday (am wurking tomorrow). Please? __________________ Living it up on the edge ... of civilisation, within the southwest coast of

10-19-2009, 02:28 PM	#14
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	No. One more. i just acquired an extra tax return due tomorrow. that's two tomorrow and one Monday but thankfully none overdue. grrrrrr. now where in the hell did the checkbook go when we cleared out the house for thor's party on Thursday. guess I'm going to have to spend forever in line at the post office tomorow.... i did another load of laundry, though. __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

10-19-2009, 02:35 PM	#15
limey Encroaching on your decrees Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: An island within the south-west coast of Scotland Posts: 7,016	Just one? __________________ Living it up on the edge ... of civilisation, within the southwest coast of

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