Formula for Work

The following might seem counter-intuitive, but has proven true for me:

No supervisor + goofing off = high productivity.

Weird but true. I'm not goofing off, exactly, but I do spend a bit of time online doing un-work related items. However I have also:

• Processed today's donations (which includes: making copies of checks, entering donation information, updating donor information, creating three different reports for Finance, delivering all the reports and donations to Finance)
• Typed, printed, signed, and mailed today's thank you (TY) notes.
• Filed donor information and started new files for new donors (hard copies)
• Cleaned off a shelf of old publications and junk
• Finally read a report on "severely unaffordable housing" put out by the National Low Income Housing Coalition in August
• Cleaned up all the crap that's been laying around in piles on my floor
• Called one of our vendors to settle a billing error
• Filled the invoice after fixing the above billing error

God, I'm good, huh?

I also played a few games of Spider Solitaire and have BBC Radio 1 playing the background (a little change up from the usual NPR smarty-pants news stuff).

Time for lunch and then serenading the residents on the piano.

I am a nonprofit queen. (And to prove it: I will be receiving a $100 Christmas bonus! Wow. Some might think nonprofits shouldn't give bonuses--"insufficient use of funds" blah blah blah -- but how else do you hold on to good employees, right?)

Bow down to your queen! :-)