Getting too smug

[cjsmith]

I was so proud of myself for getting a lot accomplished today, and now I realize (after ducking home quickly to pick something up) I've left my purse at home. So I just drove for fifteen minutes without my driver's license; I'm buying a ten pound bag of cat food at the vet's this evening and I have neither cash, checkbook, nor credit card; and a bunch of notes I really wanted to look over this afternoon are also inconveniently not here in the office with me. I also don't have my cell phone. And I'll need to drive home without my license.

Oh, and taxes! I was so proud of myself for mailing those out last week. I realized TODAY - with maybe two hours left to get anything done about this - that I didn't write an actual CHECK. (Feds owed me; I owed state.) I sent the forms in but didn't pay. This is not optimal. So now, even though these forms were all complete long ago, I have to do last-minute scrambling anyway. (In California you can pay your tax bill by credit card, on line. If you have, y'know, your purse.)

I must have been getting too smug. *sigh*

Comments

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Hah, I love it! Keys are not usually my bugaboo. Exactly once I have locked myself out of my home; exactly once I have locked myself out of my car. It's amazing how I learned those particular lessons. But other stuff, man! Maybe I will never screw up mailing a tax check again. Heh. I can hope.

I love the two power supplies solution. I do that too. And I have no idea how you keep all the instruments and music straight. That seems like a spreadsheet waiting to happen.

[recordersmith.livejournal.com]

Folders and labeling. I have a binder for each ensemble (or in come cases, for each concert program), so I just have to remember which rehearsals/lessons I have each day and grab those binders.

Instruments are more complex and I screw that up more often. I own something like 26 recorders, and regularly use at least 10 of those and as Murphy would have it I never seem to use the same instruments in different groups.

Oh, and our great car mess--I was picking J up, and we switched drivers. I left my purse in the car and his keys in the ignition and got out, he reached in to hit the auto unlock button and shut the door to walk around. But he hit the lock all instead. So, his car keys were in the ignition, my car keys and cell phone were in my purse inside the car..the car was on...SIGH!