My Day Off

I made a huge effort to make today as relaxing as I could. I am challenged with a free day, and today I did well but was not perfect. Maya was sneezing and coughing and sniffling this morning so we were not sure whether she ought to go to school or not. Even driving to school, we were not certain. I asked the principal, Allison Shechter, and she agreed that without a fever, Maya was able to attend classes. Today was a short day for her anyway, since I pick her up at 1:30 to go to her violin lesson. I drove to my office to see one patient, and then changed quickly and ran across to my yoga class. It was hot and perspiration dripped off my body for the 90 minutes. Sid was teaching and he is wonderful, so I felt recharged when I left.

I luxuriated in a long shower and dressed for the day, caught up on paperwork (I can never get away from paperwork) and before I knew it, it was time to pick Maya up. She was still sniffling when I drove her to Peabody, but was find during her lesson and wanted to stay for her dance class. I had to rush across town to my office to see another patient I had not managed to change from Tuesday to Thursday. I drove back for Maya and then in the other direction for my ballet class.

My evening was devoted to data entry. I am using a new billing system at the office and am required to enter all the info on each patient to begin using the program. I guess I did not entirely get away from work. Eric looked for boxes with tax info. We deferred paying our taxes while in Ecuador and they are due in two weeks, but without the information in these boxes, we cannot do much. Where in the four storage areas should we look? Eric emptied out his office, looked in the garage, will try to get to Daphne's tomorrow and the storage unit on the weekend. We may not be able to do our taxes in time and will have to extend again. I have never filed for an extension before and am not comfortable with this, but may not have a choice.

So it is past midnight on my day off. I have exercised and done alot of paperwork. I guess that is a day off, not particularly stressful, but not entirely relaxing either. I will have to make an effort to make these days off more satisfying.