The Snowball

The second half of 2010 was quite stunning for me. It is the first time I have had such a lengthy and seemingly unconquerable to-do list for so long. Since June, my list of obligations to clients has grown slowly, with projects taking a little longer than expected so they overlap into the next project’s estimated time frame. Then there were the little responsibilities that added up to make that snowball bigger, like being the speaker at church every Sunday – truly good preparation for a sermon takes some time. Add to all this the unexpected things like broken faucets, car maintenance, and wood-stacking, and the snowball became deadly.

But there is light at the end of the tunnel. Or, more appropriately for this analogy, the temperature is rising and the snowball is starting to melt. Yesterday I mailed out a bunch of the Camp Northwest 2010 Senior Week DVDs, and today I will mail out all the rest if my calculations are correct.

After that it’s on to the Mosier/Johnson wedding DVD, and somewhere in here I need to get the DVD done for She Stoops to Conquer from last April. Ideally, sometime soon the whole snowball will be nothing but slush and I can take off my snowshoes, put on my comfy warm socks, curl up beside the Fireplace of Achievement with my mug of Satisfaction and take a breather before the next Cold Front of Obligations rolls in.