Monday, 5 April 2010
Finally tackled my intray
and managed to chuck a lot of stuff too! Yay!
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and managed to chuck a lot of stuff too! Yay!
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Now if that doesn’t free up the creative impulses, I don’t know what will! Sent off the signed documents authorising the go-ahead for my Australian income tax returns for 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008, then went on to complete the data input and report generation for 2009, which I then sent to my accountant. Mmmm… warm, fuzzy feeling!
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Very tired after the intense socialising of the weekend (1, 2, 3… awwww!) so have had trouble applying myself to anything much today, so I’ve focused instead of trying to get some housey stuff done – I want everything to be in order with the house and with all my lists and tools before I go back to work, which could be next week, so I have to get cracking! So I did a load of laundry, changed the sheets on the bed, swapped the summer doona out for the mid-season one, tidied my in-tray (didn’t actually do anything with the stuff in it though), did a mountain of washing up, made teriyaki meatballs for late lunch/early dinner, made a batch of home-made apricot muesli bars and wrote to my mama. Now I am procrastinating over finishing up my Australian tax returns for 2005, 2006 and 2007, but in doing so I have gone back over all the accounting software I’ve assessed in the last few days and decided that iBank comes closest to meeting my needs. Next task with that is to email my accountants (Australian and UK) to make sure that the reports it produces will provide them with the data they need. But I can’t do that until the tax returns are done, so I guess there’s an end to my procrastination – nose back to the grindstone!
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Yesterday morning we took djeli’s lovely niece off to the airport at 5.30 in the morning (*ugh*) to see her off on the next leg of her gap year trip – 3 months in India. And now we have the house to ourselves for the foreseeable future – I think for the first time this year, which feels AMAZING. So we’re launching ourselves into a programme of sorting ourselves out.
Djeli has reclaimed his office, but this time has put his desk along the wall beside the window, instead of with his back to it and it looks a much more comfortable working space for him. The sofa-chair-bed is, for the first time in I can’t remember how long, folded up into its chair configuration and the room feels really welcoming now.
I’ve got my own desk back, which isn’t perfect, but at least the junk all over it will be all mine. I am rapidly accumulating a rather long list of things I want/need to buy to either make my working environment more comfortable or help me continue working on my own stuff when I’m out of the house (in particular when I have to take on another contract job in September): a lamp, a cushion because the chair I’m using is really too low, an iPod Touch so I can compose and catch up on my read/review file on the go, and so I’ll have (finally!) a numeric keypad to make using Finale easier, not to mention a control for our about-to-be-set-up music server. This is the cushion I want to get – it matches the gorgeous apron my mama bought me while she was here:
Oh, and a flute of course – I’ve had to give djeli’s sister back hers and now I’m missing it badly 
And then there’s the software upgrades – there’s always more software upgrades – Snow Leopard when it comes out, Pro Tools, because the version I have doesn’t seem to play nicely with Leopard, Finale because my version is 4 years old and frankly rather a crappy iteration.
And we have so many projects to work on! I don’t have time to get a job! This week I’m back on the film score, but still working on a couple of secret squirrels with more lining up. I think I need to review everything I’m trying to start and relegate some of them to the Someday/Maybe list!
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… because they take up space on the shelf which could be better used by CDs I actually want to put in the CD player, but I still want to be able to find what’s on them every now and then. It’s a tedious process because the MusicBrainz service that Max (my ripping software, which provides excellent high-quality rips) uses doesn’t recognise the discs, so I have to manually type in all those details of title, artist, composer, genre as well as the label and catalogue number (because they’re all excerpts from full discs and one day I might want to buy some of them), not to mention having to scan all the covers!
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Changing light bulbs, doing the washing up, activating my new Amex card, transferring dates into my diary – that sort of thing. Nothing very exciting or life-changing, but things that needed to be done and things feel a little better for them being done.
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About 6 dusty boxes and bags of … well … crap. Have thrown away a vast amount of junk. I even found one Amazon box that was filled entirely with recycling. Not one thing in there worth keeping. Just one box to go now, but it’s the big one…
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And I mean totally. Not a single thing. Mind you, there’s a huge folder labelled “Deal with this!” and another one labelled “Filing”, but the inboxes are pure and white and bare. Mmmm.
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and some of the floor so I can actually GET to the desk for the first time in goodness knows how long. David Allen is a genius. Everyone needs to read “Getting Things Done”. Go on! Go out and read it!
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