Craziness
It’s been dreadfully busy, the last few days, and I don’t think it will let up anytime soon. I dropped out of church choir until the end of May because it’s been so hectic.
There’s my tooth … the one I’m getting a crown on. It hurt so bad last week I went back to the dentist. He did some kind of magic, and it’s feeling much better. But whenever I sing high notes (above C6), I get a sympathetic vibration in that tooth — it’s excruciating. So, giving up choir was sort of self-defence.
Then there’s the professional certification exam I’m studying for. Since the wreck last July, things don’t stay put in my brain. So what I thought would be an easy task has become a frightening mountain. You see, if I don’t pass the test, I have to pay my company back for the books ($250) and the testing fees ($190). So that’s some stress.
There’s all of my commitments: my full- and part-time jobs; my professional organization which meets once a month, plus I’m on a committee to help with the Administrative Professionals Day Luncheon; I am still teaching kids’ choir and playing handbells at church, teaching CPR once a quarter, and so on.
Then there’s the general household stuff. Gotta get that done and off my back. And I have 10 days to get the taxes done, but I have to get all the filing done at home first, so I have all my papers in order. (I got really bad about my filing last year.)
And then there’s the ex — he’s finally gotten permission to take the kids to visit his family on the Northwest coast. I’m not happy about it, really, but the kids are old enough now to fend for themselves, and I just couldn’t reasonably keep saying “No.” So I’ve got to get them ready for a ten-day trip at the end of May.
Sigh. Oh well. By the end of May, handbells and kids’ choir will be over; I will have taken the exam; the luncheon will be finished, and the taxes will be done. Things will slow down a bit then, I hope.