Tidying my office is a job that I really should dedicate more time to in order to actually get it done rather than the method I am going with at the moment which is to wait until a slight drop of writer's block happens and half-heartedly shovel a pile of papers to another part of the room. I then get distracted by something and spend ages reading/looking at it and before I know it I have wasted an hour or two and not tidied up. My desk is a mess of papers, notes, USB sticks and other such clutter, I found a plate among the mess today with toast crumbs seemingly welded on and this is what prompted me to have a bit of a tidy. As I was taking the plate downstairs to the kitchen it only seemed right to take the eight mugs that were also piled up so I could wash them before it got to the point where I was drinking tea out of a saucepan. On my return to the office I moved a pile of newspapers and found a bowl, it is a good job there's two cats and a terrier living in this house otherwise I would be sharing this work space with a new breed of super mouse that lives on discarded toast.
My financial paperwork was the first job I tackled which basically amounted to putting the right receipts in the right ring binder wallets and putting my (probably useless) collection of ATM receipts in their own shoebox. Ever since my bank account was hacked into and money stolen I have been cautious. I closed the old account and immediately opened a new one with the same bank and from that day I have kept every ATM receipt from every time I have withdrawn money and debit card receipt in a shoebox and every bank statement in a ring binder just in case I have reason to question a discrepancy. Should there ever be a discrepancy I will have some work to do because the receipts are not in order, they are just dumped in the box so I would have to sift through them all. I always keep the most recent one in my wallet so that I can compare balances once I have drawn money out, not that I am obsessive or anything.
No podcast this week.
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May housekeeping
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