It was a very busy week with work. So much so that I don’t have much details on my work week. However, I saw this quote from one of my sistas Queen Rania of Jordan and absolutely love it. Women bringing up others including a society as a whole. Empower a woman and see what kind of magical things happen.
It’s Monday morning and it is snowing and there is a lot of snow out there. It started last night and it continues this morning and it is coming down; heavily. There are about four inches already on the ground by my house. I will need to take my lunch break to go shovel the snow from the front and back walkways. Not looking forward to it, but hey somebody’s gotta do it.
This morning, I was awakened by my lovely husband, so very abruptly, by him tuning on the lights and telling me to get up lol. He’s such a nice soul! Anyway, we were all up as he is working today. The entire family was up nice and early to wave good day to him this lovely winter morning. He is a very hard worker and we all need to give him a warm wave good bye and for him to have a safe day at work. We plead for him to stay away from others and to be safe on the slick roads. Meanwhile, I am really hungry and I eat a nice morning snack…ok so I had a piece of chocolate cake. I know, who does that at five in the morning? Me, that’s who. It was delicious by the way. It hit the spot lol. After I indulge, I immediately feel like I needed to burn it off, so I get dressed with my gym clothes and get myself onto the treadmill. I walk and run, then walk and then run again on the machine. The machine continues to be noisy. I’ve placed silicone oil on the mill but the machine itself makes a ton of noise as I am running. It probably needs some WD40 on the joints. The machine has seen better days and it probably needs retirement. But it’s all I’ve got right now, so noisy it is.
As for work, I have a product launch this morning and it launches nice and smoothly. Thank goodness! The product we launched is the printer imagePRESS Lite C170. Then at nine in the morning; it’s back to meeting after meeting until noon. All of these meetings are with people who’s first language was not English. So I must master thick accents and figure out what they are trying to say. It wasn’t easy at first, but once I got used to the accent and the person… we’re good! The culture plays a big part as well and I am always learning.
It’s three in the afternoon and the snow keeps on coming down. There is about a foot of snow out there already. I wanted it to stop snowing so I could go out there and shovel out of the front and back steps. The darn snow just won’t stop coming down. Of course, my little one wants to go out and play in it. It’s all fun and games when you’re a little one. As a responsible adult, I gotta work.
It’s five in the evening and I log off to go outside and clean up that snow. I get myself and my little one dressed and ready to go. We are both really bundled up and ready to play in the snow. There’s about 14 inches on the ground when we get out there. It is very windy and the snow keeps on falling. While I’m cleaning up the snow, she is throwing snowballs at me. I take a quick pause from shoveling and we have ourselves a snowball fight. She calls it a snowball war and throws a big chunk right at my face. My glasses are now all filled with snow and I can’t a thing. I take them off to and try to clean them up, but it’s no use. I don’t have anything to wipe them down with, so I put them back on, snow and all. Can’t see too well but we keep on playing. We then go to the front yard and I continue to shovel. And, oh look, we got a package by the garage door. The package is all wet and filled with snow. Meanwhile, I clean out a path to the front stoop and also clean up the steps. Then, we make ourselves the littlest Olof we can muster up. We find some sticks from a far off tree and turn them into arms. We find some more pieces and we make eyes and a smile. My arms are hurting at this point from shoveling and she wants to make a bigger snowman. I tell her, we’ll make a big guy…tomorrow. As for today, we make snow angels, have us another snowball war and then go inside and get some tea. I’d rather hot chocolate, but that will just give my baby girl a belly ache. We get out boots and snow gear off and we have ourselves some hot tea instead.
After the tea, I then get back on the laptop as there is more work that has to be done before the end of the day. I was told there would be content to post. And these pieces of content are very important ones. I log on and notice there is a full excel page of items to post on my website. Oh boy, can’t wait to get started. Believe me, it’s a lot of work. Half way through, I take a break and I heat up my dinner of chicken and sweet potato fries. Then, I take care of the dishes and my little one tells me she wants to play. I have so much work to do still…what to do what to do? So, I go ahead and play with her! I will take care of work later. After all, its not going anywhere. As long as I get the majority of it completed before bed, or midnight, we’ll be just fine. So we played and played and then it was time for bed. Grandma was already falling asleep on the couch so it was only natural for everyone to retire to their rooms. As for me, I logged back on to work and took care of the other items that I need to post online. I am at this until ten in the evening. Then I called it a night. I’ve had enough for today. I’ve bee up since before the roosters, got myself a workout in, worked all day, shoveled snow, played pretend with my little one. It’s been a full day. It’s time to put the pencil down and close the laptop. Good night everybody!
Today is Tuesday and I woke up nice and early. I got my coffee going and then I call my husband to see how he is doing. He is tired and wants to get some shut eye. I get online at seven in the morning and take care of some of the items that were left over from yesterday’s work. There are about thirty pieces of content that I need to add to the site and I get to work bright and early.
Once I see that my husband is home. I get my snow jacket and boots on and head on outside to help him bring in all of his belongings that are in his truck. Like his cooler and extra clothes. He gets in the house, changes clothes and I give him a nice backrub. I only have about ten minutes before my meeting, so I have to do it fast. I get all of that smelly muscle rub cream all over his back and then I try my hardest to do a deep tissue massage. It’s not easy, he’s a big guy! But I get it done and he is content. I then run to my desk and get onto the meeting. I am just a minute late and they had already started, but I catch up quickly. Then, there are more meetings. During one of my meetings one of the phones goes off and the ringtone is the music from “Psycho.” Those violins really going hard. I had to put myself on mute as that mess was going off. And quite frankly, giving me goosebumps. Now, this is my husband’s phone that’s ringing. He thinks it’s funny to have such a ring tone on his phone. Who’s the psycho now?
Wednesday and Thursday fly by. I’ve been so busy at work with new items launching and updating the site that I haven’t had any time to do anything else. The new item that we launched is launched is a Transmitter for our EOS Cameras. We launched the Speedlite Transmitter ST-E3-RT (Ver. 2), take a look at the Canon USA site if you’re interested in seeing what this transmitter is all about. While working, I’ve been catching some of the news here and there and learned there are a few different strains of the covid 19 virus out there. The vaccines are being worked on, but still need more testing. It’s scary out there!
All I know is that after all the work that I do, I get to play with the apple of my eye. She likes to play with her new calico critters toys and we do just that. And act silly of course. As we play, we laugh as much as we can.
It’s Friday and I get up early and get a work out in. I’ve finally gotten my energy back and have restarted to get myself some exercise in the morning hours before work. I’m very happy about getting my energy back. I was in a little bit of a slump but now, just like that, I have it back. I’ve got my groove back lol.
In the morning hours there are meetings and more meetings. These meetings are good, however. I’m learning more about being a Business Analyst (BA) as well as streamlining launch information with different groups. Of course there are more meetings involved for this type of streamlining, but I am very happy about this. Some of my colleagues and I scramble around during launches in order to get content to post on the sites. I’m glad we met and figure out how to streamline this process. Nope, can’t believe I’m using the “streamline” word, over and over again. Sound like one of those fun middle management individuals lol. But hey, it’s something that needs to be done to get everyone on the same page and things working smoothly. We have other items launching, as we always do, and the future ones will be a little easier to handle.
Until next time.
Stay safe!
Best,
Isabel
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