My Life? What Life?

Not much going on with me these days except work, work, work. Seems like everyone needs their tax returns done! You too, I'll bet. Every year we know that these several months from January through April 15th will be grueling but then we get to this point and wonder how we are going to survive and actually get everything done that needs to be done by that ominous deadline. I don't know if we just forget from year to year but it sure seems like clients started coming in lots earlier this year and the pressure has been constant and intense. Now after having said that, please don't think I am complaining because if we weren't super, crazy busy right now we'd be in a different kind of stressful situation. So it is definately a love/hate relationship we have with this time of year!

And then of course the rest of our lives have to keep on going as well. Just because we have no extra time to pay attention to anything else, that is when it seems like every thing else decides to get our attention one way or another. In the past 2 weeks we have had constant annoying problems at our house: we have had to replace both of our water heaters, replace our kitchen faucet, had a couple of other plumbing issues (one that is still not resolved) and then last Friday night we came home to a VERY cold house and discovered that the igniter on our furnace had burned out! Whoa Nellie! Enough is enough. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that one of our employees decided to quit and his last day was last Friday.

No use dwelling on the negatives because everything seems to work out okay sooner or later. We have realized after getting the new water heaters how much hotter our showers are now and one of our clients is a wholesaler of furnace supplies and even though they are closed on Saturdays, they met us there so we could get a new igniter. Another client is a plumber and he has responded to our crisis ASAP. And best of all, on the same day that our employee gave his two week notice another qualified person contacted our office and agreed to come to work starting next Monday. So alls well that ends well... we'll just be glad when we can see the END in sight: only 30 more days... (PS: be kind to your accountant!)