I have spent way too much time this year doing admin. Like probably a full month, possibly six weeks, of work time has been spent on admin, not including the Great Dropbox Disaster of 2025 or the week+ I did of it in late 2024. SO MUCH admin.
A lot of it has been “once this is done, Future Catie’s life will be MUCH EASIER,” and at this point, all of that admin is in fact done. That stuff was stuff I could not hand off to my husband, but, well, it’s done.
In theory a lot of the rest of it IS stuff I could hand off to him, and the reason I hadn’t yet was because it also required writing up how to do it, which means…more admin. ::laughs:: I mean, one-off admin in this case (once I’ve got it right, anyway), but I’ve been putting it off because getting all the steps which I already know onto paper for somebody else is slow and tedious. And it’s hard to figure out what parts, exactly, he can do, and which parts I have to do, so… it’s been too much bother to deal with.
However, I got to the point where I’d done SO MUCH of it in a short period of time that for a brief shining moment, I actually knew WHAT EXACTLY I could hand off to him. So I’ve also spent hours writing up step by step stuff for what he can do, although we have to go through it and I have to actually show him how. Still, this has been something I/we have had plans to do for literal years, so at least I’ve gotten the first stages of it done.
So at this point I feel like I’ve done admin to the point of efficiency, which is fairly impressive. But god, SO much admin…