Can You Hear Me Now?

So today is the start of a new routine for me. I don’t want a summer where I am bursting out of my clothes and nothing fits me!! I can’t afford a new wardrobe. So I’m starting over again today (again and again and again, I am the Queen of failed attempts, but I will persist and keep trying!) I’m taking some time off from MSN to take some time for myself and make sure I get three important things in every day: exercise, reading, and affirmations. Yes, affirmations… those positive phrases you repeat over and over while looking in the mirror. I decided I don’t care who comes over and sees these phrases hanging on my bathroom mirror, they are staying there because I know they’re going to help me and that is all that matters!!

I’m also going to be diligent with taking my supplements and drinking lots of water, things I have been lazy about recently. Oh, and I’m back on green tea in the morning instead of coffee. Yessum. It’s time to put my health in the forefront again. I’ve had a really bad week with my MS and I take full responsibility for it because of the way I haven’t been taking care of myself lately. That all changes today!! The Year of the Sunflower is not over!!!

My week started off well, then got icky, and will hopefully end well! Monday was interesting, I responded to a call from a young woman who is running a business with her dad. He wants her to manage all the administration and bookkeeping, but she has NO CLUE what to do or where to begin. She found me via my website and called to see if I’d be willing to come over and help get her organized and show her a few things. I reluctantly agreed… she sounded really nice and sweet, but I am not an accounting teacher and trying to show someone how to use Simply Accounting when they don’t understand debits and credits is a real headache. However, I had nothing else to do and seeing as I quit my biggest client (ONE MORE DAY LEFT THANK GOD) I’m in no position to turn down something new, that could become a regular client.

So I went over there and ended up having a really good time. After seeing their situation, there was only so much I could do without a lot more receipts rounded up (”we’ll find them”) so we did all we could do in three hours. I had booked my ride to pick me up in four hours though, so Kelly took me for a beer up the street. She also paid me for the full four hours right on the spot. I had a lot of fun with her, and I can tell she does not like accounting and will most likely be calling me regularly to come by. That will be cool! New friend and new client in the same day.

Tuesday I worked at the Pub, which is always a great place to go. The owners are getting married in June and there are sooooo many parties coming up for Christine it’s insane! I can only make it to one of them though. I can’t afford all the gift buying for each party anyway! I spent enough on their wedding gift alone, I’m not made of money. Where’s my “Hey, you’re still single with no kids?!?! Congratulations!” shower gifts?? Hmmm. I may need to plan that party.

Yesterday I worked up at Crowfoot again and decided next week is my very last day. I finished up what I wanted to finish up and wouldn’t even go in next week if I didn’t know for sure that the owner will have a few questions and adjustments regarding his year end. But then that is IT. Yesterday was horrible!! I’m feeling like crap this week as it is, and then I have to sit in a damn car in the hot sun for two hours stuck in traffic while he does the milk run around the city before getting me home. I was supposed to be picked up at 3:00 and I didn’t get home until 6:00. NO MORE of that shit. And I’m sitting in this guy’s passenger seat, drained, exhausted and barely able to keep my eyes open, and he saw me as the perfect female candidate to ask all these burning female questions he has never understood. Like, do we shave our legs and other body parts, and why??

Today I’m at home and since my cleaning lady was here Wednesday, I actually have a clean and tidy apartment, so that is not hanging over my head. I’ve been drinking green tea and soon I need to shower and dress before my client arrives. Later on I’m going for a pedicure and then meeting my friend Connie for dinner hopefully, if she can tear herself away from her hubby and three kids long enough… I rarely see her!

Okay, I’m off to find some thought process changing affirmations and get typing, printing, and hanging. “I’m good enough, I’m smart enough and doggone it, people like me. Well, not everybody. But that’s their problem.” ~ Stuart Smalley