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Cleaning Up
I've been thinking a lot this weekend, mostly because the weather has been too bad to do much of anything else. I've also been cleaning. Most folks who talk to me via AIM always hear me say that I am cleaning. And for the most part, that's true. I live in a relatively small space that I don't particularly enjoy. Not a lot of sunlight and not enough places to store things for easy access.
But today I did some things that will end up saving me time down the road. Yes, I started doing my Christmas cards. (Crazy, right?) I still have a lot to label, but I took a big dent out of my list.
I also started getting my receipts together. Tax time will be here before I know it and I've got lots of receipts from the post office, meals, taxis, etc....lots of things that add up and can potentially be a tax write-off or something. I don't really know how it works, I'm just doing what The Self-Publishing Manual said to do.
And believe it or not, my space is still ridiculously junky. Not dirty...but very cluttered. I now have a bunch of space under my basement steps, but nothing to put there! Isn't that weird? My goal was to get the basement looking as close to how it looked pre-Lazarus as possible. That means all MY books go back on the shelves. That got accomplished, but now I realize I STILL have more books than I do shelf space. The Lazaruses are in boxes in the middle of the floor, and some are upstairs.
I am really glad that my receipts are better organized. About 80 percent are now taped to white pieces of paper and neatly stacked for review. I spent a SHITLOAD of money this year -- it's crazy how expensive it really is to self-publish. If I really knew, I would have talked myself out of it. So I'm glad I didn't know.
So yeah...cleaning and thinking. Thinking about ZERO.
Zero....ground zero...zero hour...the number between the set of all negative numbers and the set of all positive numbers....the point of departure in reckoning...a state of total absence or neutrality...the lowest point....nadir.
The him before him.
He's back.
Posted by Rashid on October 9, 2005 10:46 PM
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wow...can ya come do my cards...i just finished the halloween gift basket list....*sigh*
Commented by courtney on October 10, 2005 6:21 PM
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Commented by don rogers on November 30, 2005 12:58 AM