Stropps, teenage blathering is exactly what I want to listen to. And other child-related blathering, tbh but teenage especially. How was appointment?
MI, can you allocate time to the job based on a viable hourly rate? For example, if £X/hr is reasonable and you have £Y left after commissioning, then you limit yourself to Y/X hours on the editing. I sometimes try to apply this to reports. I set a kitchen timer to go off every 15 mins, dictate standing up and am extremely strict with myself. Quite helpful even if people are not trying to get away with under-paying. You get good at knowing exactly how long jobs take and you (mysteriously) get faster.
DD's concert was a delight and she had a gorgeous solo that she'd kept as a surprise 
OTOH got an e-mail from head of Upper School about her drop in effort grades. Trouble is, the grades were more than 5 weeks ago and HoUS seemed unaware of the effort she's made since, including changing one of her GCSE subjects, re-doing coursework etc. Still, this was promptly acknowledged when I e-mailed back.
Presentation at work today for someone who's done 10 years without a sick day. Whole senior team turned up, all of our team and some others, to applaud her and give her armfuls of flowers and compliments. Interesting how there seems to be a tacit acknowledgement that, in her line of work, sick leave is partly a choice. But fun all the same.