Quickbooks and Pumpkin Sketches

I have spent a week working on my book keeping. Please, someone tell me that you find it challenging also. I am lucky enough to have brother-in-law who is an accountant and set up my Quickbooks as he  explained everything to me. The thing is that although I love numbers ( I used to be a banker many moons ago.) I hate going through my receipts for Finally Art and put it off. I tend to do my books once a quarter when sales tax is due. So 70 some journal entries and several check entries later I'm ready to resume doing art. So much for my wish to sketch every day.

I am going to make more of a commitment to keeping my books more current. Any suggestions?

I did start a sketch yesterday. It was an incredible Autumn day and I enjoyed sitting on the front porch drawing my pumpkins among the flowers. However, my neighbor Nancy saw me sitting outside and came over for some wine. I was hoping I'd see her. It's important to stop and spend time with friends. I'm going back out there today as the morning sun is hitting the pumpkins just right. I was enjoying using my watercolor pencils with the sketch. We'll see how it turns out today. I'll stay away from the wine this time.

Obsessions Over Solving Problems in Painting

I bought a new sketch book last week in the hopes that I would do several sketches a week. My front porch makes a wonderful, cool place to draw in the afternoon when its totally in shade. I had a lot of fun just sketching and am looking forward to many more drawings.

This week the focus is on getting my work done so I can get to the printers by week's end with five new paintings. Three for sure, the last two I'm struggling with. I've been working on my peony painting for awhile now and I'm not sure if I went a bit too far and muddied up some colors. On the other hand, I'm not sure I didn't go far enough. I need to stand back from it and give it some time so I can "live with it" awhile. But I don't seem to be able to do that... I seem to be obsessed with figuring this painting out. I keep going back to it- even though I have three other projects to do and even though I know some separation would  be for the best. I want to solve this problem... now. Pictures coming soon. Maybe.

What do you do when you're at a point like this? When you need to step back a bit and yet can't do it.