One of those days

A favorite songwriter of mine, Randall Goodgame, once wrote “Sometimes I feel like Charlie Brown, all alone up on the pitcher’s mound, like a hundred runs down.” (Forgive me, Randall, if I’ve messed that up!) Anyway, that could be my battle cry today. I’m behind. . .not just a few days, but alot, on everything I work on. I’ve been ignoring one project to finish another that I deemed more of a crisis for a week. I’ve been plugging along. . . .and then I got a note today that due to new system we recently started using, printing needs more time. . . .and production schedules had been adjusted. So I pulled up those schedules to discover that I now had a deadline today. . . . and I hadn’t even started that edit yet. Nothing makes you feel more useless than consistently missing deadlines, even the ones you didn’t know you had!

I’ve been living for “one day, when everything will get better” for over a year now. It’s time to realize it’s really not getting any better. I guess the best thing to work through at this point is how late is too late and what I can actually get done in the time I have.

And maybe I better adjust my attitude because it’s just not so nice at the moment!

BTW: I think I’ve found my new theme song in Jon McLauhlin’s “Beautiful Disaster.”