Well the holiday season is over and I'm ready to have it start all over again. I had a great time. I just get so much done with all that free time and everyone else too busy shopping and partying to do any work. Little by little masses of undone tasks that have lingered all year get done.
I took on the physical jobs first, the lawn cutting, the raking, the mindless work where your satisfaction lasts just long enough for the next leaf to fall but you trust the process and know that, at least, you made a temporary dent in the endless flow of nature's attempt to reclaim suburbia.
Now I'm feeling my oats and I go after the hang-this-up-throw-that-away-phase, and I start to get excited that my list, the list that I thought only added work, is starting to show cross-outs and check marks everywhere I look.
Now's the time to get ahead on my social responsibilities; dinners with friends, walks with my wife. Things are looking better and better. And I'm feeling better too. More relaxed and everyone seems to be doing the same thing I'm doing. I love this time of year!
Alright, I'm starting to get down to the bottom of the pile to the "Oh, it'd be nice if I do it stuff but it's not really necessary right now" things, those old notes that never get read.
So fun time has to be just around the corner at this point, to read a book, watch some old Marx Brothers movies, and eat some great food. Cheerios will come again later when the routines return.
Okay. I'm ready now. Ready for the dreaded taxes. Now, there's nothing else hanging over me to stop me, to distract me. I can open those manila folders one by one and add up all those numbers, write down my totals, and move on to the next one, easily, comfortably. The house is taken care of. My wife and family are taken care of. Even I'm taken care of. So I can get it all done now, no pressure, no stress, at least, until next year when I beg for relief and God hears me and sends me "the holidays."
P.S. I do my best to let the holiday season hangover linger as long as I can because it just feels so good.
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