Get Me Back On The Earth, Put My Feet On The Ground

Normally, I get a bit of a post-tax season lull, but not this year; work has been super-busy what with April being the end of our fiscal year, and me having to prepare budgets for the next FY that started May 1st. Plus, we've have a TV series shooting in Portland (TNT's Leverage). PLUS, May 1st is also the beginning of our new billing period, and I had to generate a bunch of paperwork for our broadcast station Bargaining Units to calculate new dues amounts for station staff. PLUS, our national office needed information from us to complete THEIR audit and tax return (thank goodness THAT little task has been taken off my plate!). PLUS, we've been in negotiations with our landlord for a new lease.

So I don't think it would be an understatement to say things at work have been a bit busy as of late. Fortunately, most of the above has been dealt with, which means things SHOULD start quieting down - a bit - from here on out, at least for a while.

Fortunately, most of this coincided with a general slow-down in extra-curricular activities: things at the theatre are running pretty smoothly, and don't generally require huge amounts of my time or attention right now. And of course, with the intermittent improvements in the weather situation, I'm getting out more, getting a bit more exercise (I've managed one day - well, several hours in the course of one day to be exact - of hiking each of the past three weekends, and of course lots and lots of yard work. In fact, I've got several hours scheduled for this morning, but hopefully, that should put things in pretty good shape, and there shouldn't be much more to do aside from routine maintenance for the remainder of the summer.

So yeah, not much of this falls into the "that is SO exciting I just have to blog about it!" category; just normal, routine, day-to-day stuff.