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Two sounds woke me up and got me stirring this morning. The noise of the wind blowing through my yard was so deafening that I thought it must be raining hard. (It wasn’t, until later in the day.) And the high-pitched hum of the fax machine spitting out page after page was so irritating that I had to get up and see what was going on.
I guess I’ll have to waste some other day, because I couldn’t seem to fit it into today’s agenda. The fax brought me three items of work that were apparently so important that they couldn’t wait until Monday. And it was the one thing I’ve told the Boss that I hate doing the most: typing forms. There was a bid form and two personal financial statement forms, all several pages long. I was going to put it off until Monday anyway, but I couldn’t make myself do that.
I’ll tell you one thing, though. The next time the Boss asks me what he can do to help lighten my work load, I’m going to laugh in his face. He asks me that all the time, and I always tell him that I hate typing forms, and especially having to put bids together. It’s an important part of keeping the business going, so I do it. But what’s the point of asking if he’s not going to give me what I ask for?
So I spent the morning typing, and it really wasn’t that bad. Julie had given me all the information that went into the forms, so at least I didn’t have to look anything up. I didn’t fax the completed forms back to them until late in the day, though. I didn’t want to hear about it.
Besides, there were other things I needed to do. The replacement checks from the bank finally arrived, and I could at last write all the checks I’ve been holding off on. These people have been pretty patient as they waited for me to pay them, but the real reason I wanted to get started on the check writing today was to get it out of the way. Monday is tough enough without having to write fifty thousand dollars worth of checks. My hand aches just thinking about it. | 
