The end is in sight - for this year anyway

Tonight is my last budget meeting for the year. I can't wait for it to be over. It's a loooooong process for me. We start working on the budget in December. Board meetings usually start the end of January and run through mid-April. So - I'm out at meetings at least twice a week. The first month or so is not as bad. We start reasonably early and end reasonably early. But then the second board starts meeting and they start later and end later. It's very hard to go to sleep when I've been on alert, working, focusing until 10:45 or so and then I go home and I'm still wound up. One good thing about board #2 - they won't go past 11 pm for their meetings because they don't want to pay the custodian overtime! So - anyway - tonight's the last night. Usually it's just a formality. The numbers were pretty much laid out Monday night - but - there are rumblings. One board member - who is mad he got booted as Chairman - wants to change the numbers. This could be the most interesting meeting of the whole process! But starting tomorrow, my life can get back to normal - to one meeting a month, instead of 2 or 3 a week.