February 16, 2020 - 156 - "Miss? Or Near Miss?"

     Oh
     My
     Gosh!

     It was such a low-key day.  Kind of a bummer day...but things were ticking along okay.

     It started out...reaaallly slowly.  As in:  I slept half the day away.  I'm not sure if I'm just having allergy symptoms...or if I've come down with a bad case of the  bubonic plague.

     Either way my energy is zapped and I can barely speak above a whisper.  I've got an appointment with the doctor at 8 in the morning.  Hopefully they'll give me a steroid shot, or some other miracle cure, and I'll learn that this was just a lot of pollen getting my goat.

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      Once I finally got up...and nearly at 'em, I spent the rest of the day getting all of our forms and information together to take to our accountant.  About a month ago I set an appointment for 10 tomorrow morning.  (Yeah.  Two appointments in one day...no wonder I feel sick.)

    I was pretty on top of the record keeping all the way through June, things did fall off after that.  It took me fooorreeeverrr to get it all organized and compiled and updated.

     Then I finally put the manilla envelope full of tax stuff on the table by the door and drug myself downstairs.  I managed to clean up the kitchen and the bedroom a little.  (Michael's not home and I get a little lax from the lack of pressure to be a good roommate.)

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     I was thrilled to get into my pajamas and brush my teeth.  In spite of the cold water coming out of the tap I was about to fall asleep as I washed my face.  I was thinking:  I'm sooo tired, and soooooo ready to crawl back into bed.  Ellas was already there and meowing her protests that it was waaay past bedtime. 

     Snuggling up to Ella sounded like the most fun thing a person could do.

    But that's when I noticed the clock said:  1: 35 a.m.

     And it hit me:  !!!!! H o l y   C r a p o l y !!!!!  I've missed my deadline!!!! f

     I'm 155 posts in and I pick TODAY to miss my deadline!!! There've been a lot more challenging days than this one in this past half-year.  I may be sick, and I may be in tax hell...but I am home, have access to my computer and the internet...there are plenty of opportunities to get it done.

     Oh NO!!! OH NO OH NOOOOOO!!!! 

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     So, then I was awake enough to start trying to figure out how to handle this:  will I start over at Post #1 again tomorrow!

      NOOOOOO!!!!  No Way!  That's waaaay too depressing.

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     But then I thought:  wait a minute!  I'm posting every day.  I got up on the 16th...and still haven't gone to bed.

     So that's what I'm gonna do.

  I say I still have time to get it in under the wire...and still sleep for a few minutes before going to the doctor and to drop off the taxes.

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     The only advantage to being the crazy person who gives her own self hoops to jump through is:  I get to decide if I'm jumping through enough of them.

     And I'm calling this a win.

     My game.  My rules.

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     It took a lot to drag myself back upstairs, sit myself down, and write this short, and very panicked post..  But, by golly, by Jove...:  I did it!!

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     THE END.

     ...and the beginning.  Tomorrow's yet another first day of the rest of my Year of Posting Bravely.

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"Part of courage is simple consistency."

-Peggy Noonan

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"Do something everyday that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain."

-Mark Twain

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