Organization

Allison Knight
 AllisonKnight.com

Boy did I learn something last month. It had little to do with writing and yet in a way it did. You see, I'm organized - my way. I keep the books, I do the filing, I take care of expenses, even handle the check book.  My husband did most of it as the children were growing up but as they left the nest he suggested I take over. 

I did do things his way - for awhile, but as the years passed I developed my own system.

The joke around the house is to find how many ways I might have something filed under.

No problem, I always found what I wanted. That is until I got sick.

It was time to pay the bills, I was in the hospital, and my husband hadn't done it for years and never paid a bill on line. The budget book (at least I had that) came to the hospital with my husband and my oldest son, who also pays all his bill on line. Of course he doesn't pay them the way I do, nor keep the same kind of records I do. Somehow, we managed to communicate enough to manage - I think.

Then, of course there was my WIP. But lets go back to the check book first. I didn't feel good for a couple of months, but I religiously paid bills, but boy did I screw up the check book. My husband is still trying to figure it out.

Back to the wip. Even though I didn't feel that swift, I worked on the final  'song' book.

Should not have done that either.

So what did I learn. Make sure there is someone else in the household or a close friend who knows where stuff is and how you pay your bills.

And - For Heavens Sake - don't attempt to write while you are really sick. There are pages of half finished sentence, wrong tenses, crazy punctuation, missing scenes and I changed the heroine's name. Much of what I wrote I'll throw away.  In fact if I really don't feel good, I think I'll have my husband lock the office door. At least now

he knows how to pay the bills. - But everyone still claims they can't decipher my files.

And I think I'll just keep it that way.