Am working on it, both here and at work.

Last night made a dent in my TiVo tapings over the past week.  Nice to be able to TiVo stuff, but I then find it hard to get caught up on watching everything.  The Daily Show is filming in Ohio all week, so I’m TiVo’ing all of those.  Last night watched Barry Manilow on The Colbert Report–very funny!

Speaking of Barry, got my copy of his new cd (songs from the 60’s) from Amazon.com yesterday.  Haven’t had time to listen yet…hopefully this weekend.

Starting our work parties this weekend to make our Christmas street decoration.  I’m very proud of the fact that I didn’t give in when asked tonight to have this weekend’s work party at my house.  I’m letting them work here next weekend already!  I just can’t do it two weekends in a row.  My house has become a storage facility for more than half the materials to make the decoration, and that’s enough.  I need at least some time to do a bit of cleaning in case people need to come in the house to use the bathroom next weekend.  The person who was supposed to host the work party has a few appointments Saturday morning so would like to change everything to my house.  Too bad!  I’m learning that I have to say “no” when I feel I’m being taken advantage of.  It’s really difficult when someone calls you at the last minute with all kinds of good reasons why you need to change your life around to make things better for them.  Guess I’m just tired of always being the one who bails everyone out when there is a problem.

Work is still very stressful and the workload is overwhelming.  One of the administrative assistants who doesn’t have a lot to do right now is going to try to begin helping me out doing the data entry for all the weekly bills.  Hopefully she will catch on quickly and I won’t have to spend lots of time training her.  Did this once already last summer and just can’t devote countless hours to training every few months.  If it works out, though, I’ll be able to spend at least two more days every week getting caught up on everything I’ve had to let go for way too long.

I’ve still got an unscheduled vacation day to use before the end of the year.  Originally I had planned to use it as a shopping day in early December, but might take it right before Thanksgiving instead to do a heavy duty housecleaning before the holidays are upon me.  It I can get a bit of cleaning done every night though, I can go ahead with my original shopping plan.  Yeah, that’s the ticket!