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Sliding into Between a Rock and a Hard Place

 I was sitting here thinking about my problems.  I'm waiting on hearing back from the accountant about how much we will owe this year.  I want to know but I also know that once I know, it's down hill.  The amount we owe.  Plus the bill from the accountant.  That last one is always the one I hear about in loud complaints.  We pay someone else because it is complicated (and others forget how complicated - written through clenched teeth).  I also don't want to be seen as being pushy about when will you do this so I can move on?  An exercise in trying to rein in controlling tendencies.   So I was killing some time and ran across the updated story of no one is exempt about claims of drug use on visas.  Before it was all about people wanting it looked into but now?  not so much.  More of a talking by a lawyer somewhere is turning up the heat while others are saying it's not that big a deal. That's a potential problem.  If he loses the visa, that's that.  She's st

T minus 65 Days

 I know someone who is pregnant.  They are calm.  They have their plans about this and that, what they will do and when that will happen.  It looks very nice and well spaced out.  But all I can think is that the birth is not all that far away.  It is flying fast at them and I can tell that there are still a lot of things which need to be on the now list dates instead of the when I get to it list.   That's the problem with a coming at you soon deadline.  It suddenly is right there and you are thinking:  Wait a minute.  This cannot be.  I thought I had more time to do X or Y and now I'm suddenly short on time with lots of things left undone.   This coronation could be like that.  It seems far away when you aren't in the thick of planning for it as it's not part of your daily, hourly thinking mind.  But it's not that far way.  65 days is not much.  So will they come?  Will they stay home?  Who knows but the news always seems to have space for yet another maybe article.