Monday, April 18, 2011

It reminds me of the way I felt at certain times during my school years.  I do still feel that way once in a while, but generally not a strong anxiety.  But today was a situation that was strong and anxious.  I had put off doing the final draft of our income taxes until today.  That's the way that I used to handle stressful school assignments  and test too.  After all, that's why they give dead lines isn't it?  So today was the last day and I had asked my good wife for her help in getting the job done and in the mail.  Of course it took longer then either of us figured that it would and it caused her more stress then it did me because she was the one who took it to the post office and stood in line to get the envelopes mailed.  But I did tell her that I was thankful for her help, and I really meant it.  So she did most of the work, but I still felt the anxiety and then the relief.  I was told that I couldn't feel relief until she got them mailed, so I stopped celebrating and worried a while longer.  But you all know the relief that you feel when a major task is finally finished, one that has been hanging over you for a while.  My relief at getting our taxes mailed plus the late night last night did catch up with me long about 2:30 this afternoon.  I took what I will call a power nap, but it was actually just trying to catch up on sleep that I had missed out on.  So here I sit with my major big bad job done and the week ahead of me.  It feels good.

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