Schedule Re-Jig

So I'm going to do a bit of a schedule re-jig.

I'll still achieve the same end result in the same time line.

Just going to get there using a different path.

We did finish the design of our Christmas card last night so we are ready to go to print.

Instead of printing cards today and addressing envelopes tomorrow, I'll do those tasks in the opposite order.

Today will be envelope addressing day; tomorrow will be printing day.

Here's why (not that it really matters to anyone but I needed a topic for today's post).

My cleaning lady comes tomorrow.

Naturally, she spends considerably more time on the main floor of the home than on the lower floor that houses the office.

I usually try to schedule errands out of the home for those mornings that she is here just so I'm not under foot because invariably, I no sooner get started on a task and I have to move so I find it easier not to be here.

Anyway, I sit at the dining table to address Christmas card envelopes while I watch my canned television programs -- the task takes a very long time!

But when I'm printing the cards, I have to be downstairs in the office since I need to supervise the feeding of the cardstock through the printer.

So, I'll spend today with the television turned around to face the dining table so I can watch whatever I can find on the idiot box while I address however many envelopes we are sending this year (we average 100).

The addressed envelopes will then be separated into appropriate groups for eventual mailing (outside North America; USA; Canada -- Local / Provincial / National).

And tomorrow morning, while my house is being cleaned upstairs, I will be downstairs in the office printing the requisite number of cards that will then have to be cut and folded.  The cutting is done down in the office but the folding task is moved back upstairs to the dining table and is spread over many days.

On Monday, when I go into Ottawa for my next physiotherapy session, I will buy whatever quantity postage stamps I need so that we get the cards in the mail according to the announced Canada Post deadline dates for each grouping.

John will have between Thursday and Monday to sign the cards that are destined for out of the country since they have to be in the mail by December 1st to meet Canada Post's deadline.

Sounds like this project is coming in ahead of schedule in spite of starting well late of previous years -- is that a sign of good planning or better management?

Gotta go and get started.  Tempus fugit!