So I’m doing the following:

Working on taxes
Printing orders
Packing orders
Printing postage labels
Answering the phone
Reading and answering email
Putting together a package of turbans scarves and crocheted hats to take to the oncologist doctor’s office

So how hard can it be to keep things straight?

Working on taxes (6 different businesses and personal) – I have found some transactions that I never entered, entering them, and then rerunning the reports – and trying to concentrate on that.

I have two printers, and HP – one that I bought as a second one – Canon – to print postage labels, and use the other one to print orders. Then I found that the Canon was printing the postage labels with high quality print – I was going through ink like water. So now I print the postage labels on the HP which prints the postage labels as fast draft. I also print orders coming in on the HP and packing slips on the Canon. Ok so you would think it’s a great plan… except when I put a blank postage label sheet into the HP, and then get sidetracked with incoming orders – do you know how many postage label blanks I’ve had to tear up and throw away – cause I printed an incoming order on it? Well – too many to count.

Don’t get me wrong – when I have a large shipment come in that is to be distributed to a lot of orders – I focus on getting the orders packaged and ready to be shipped. It’s only when I have a very few orders that need to be shipped that I get easily distracted with other things.

The phone keeps ringing – we have no caller id, so I need to answer it.

Incoming email – sometimes I get overwhelmed with all the junk email I get. And then I need to weed out the orders so I don’t lose those. I really should teach myself, to leave the emails alone until I’ve finished the order packaging and postage label printing.

In a few days, my hubby will have a chemo treatment. He goes to the same oncologist group that I did when I had my chemo treatments. I have a lot of turbans and crocheted hats that I want to donate. So that requires getting them all ready to go in nice little bags. And creating transactions for a donation to be used on my taxes.

Even now, as I’m writing this post, I find myself flitting from task to task – like a hummingbird, I can’t seem to settle in one place. LOL

Will it get any better??