Here we are again, another week flying by. It was a meeting filled week and we’re bored to tears since we’re still restricted, at least at my house, from going out into the wild. We continue to quarantine ourselves and are the better for it. We haven’t caught anything and hopefully this will pass without us catching this awful virus.
It’s Monday and I have a lot of work to do. My boss would like me to create functional specifications for a website we’ve just launched and I need to figure out how to do just that. I’d show it to you, but the site is and extranet site and it is behind a password and I am not at liberty to share. As for writing the functional specs, I’ve asked one of my colleagues to please provide me with an example. And she basically told me to go ahead and figure it out on my own lol. That’s ok, I do need to do that. Maybe I’ll ask someone else if they can provide me with a company approved example. I’ve looked this up online and on youtube and have found a few variations of this type of document. I’ll need to figure out exactly what my company is looking for.
It’s Tuesday and the day flies by. I get up early and do some yoga on this lovely cold morning. I don’t have much time to do my exercises, so I get some stretches in and then get right to work. Today I’ve been working on the same as yesterday, figuring out functional specs for the new website. Watched more videos and looked through old documentation to see if there are any examples. I thought I saw something on one of the many folders but it didn’t state much. I’ll have to keep digging. In the evening I played with my little one and her LOL surprise dolls. These things are tiny and so cute, she love all of the little toys including the Calico Critters, these are little mice and bunnies who live in a village together. Anyway, we played pretend doctor with these little guys and we learned a little bit about doctors and bedside manor. We also learned a bit about the immune system and how it works. She’s very interested in this doctor stuff. Hopefully it will turn into something good. She originally wanted to be an animal doctor, as she put it. I told her she’d need to take care of all kinds of animals as a veterinarian. After a few months she changed her mind now wants to be a children’s doctor. So now we need to learn all about the human body. She also loves science and space. Mommy has a lot to learn if we’re going to be going over these things during play time.
It’s Wednesday morning and I cannot sleep any longer. I am up at four in the morning and I can’t help myself but get started on my work day. I get my coffee, can’t forget that, and my english muffin and then get to work. I’m watching and reading more and more on how to do functional specs and I think I can get started on the documentations. All I need it to figure out which one out of the nine request, I’ve received, need to tackled first. So I set up a meeting with the business partner to go over all of the requests. It’s probably my best step instead of tying to figure everything out all by myself. I’ve been told that I shouldn’t be doing all of this by myself. So to Microsoft Teams meetings it is.
It’s Thursday, and again, I am up at four in the morning. I wake up suddenly look around the dark room and then try, but cannot get back to sleep. Today, I took care of my time. I did my things nice and slow. I get dressed in my gym clothes and go on to the treadmill. I take a walk for about an hour and watch Victoria on my phone as I walk. I really like this show. It’s about Queen Victoria from the United Kingdom. If you know me, you know that I am a very big fan of historical fiction. I love the costumes and the furniture, especially the furniture. I know, I’m odd bird and I have issues. But I really love this time period. I like the life of the rich, all of the other people were living in misery. They had to get water from the fountain and no indoor plumbing. Life was hard for them. Oh, but the rich! They had it good. A lot of responsibilities, but otherwise life was filled with comfort. I think I was part duchess in my past life, or a Portuguese Princess lol Yeah, right, I wish!
But I digress, as I’m taking my walk this morning, my tummy starts rumbling. I slow down just in case my system tells me it’s done and I fall over. It’s happened before and I don’t want it happen again. I’ll tell you quickly what happened. So, I was at the gym one time and I hadn’t had much to eat all day, but I wanted to get a workout in at the end of a work day. So I go to the gym and am on the rowing machine and the next thing I know I’m on the floor and a bunch of people are around me asking me if I’m ok. My stupid a$$ fainted at the gym. I was so embarrassed. The owners at the gym wouldn’t let me finish my workout, they had me sit in the main lobby and I had to have someone pick me up, otherwise they were going to call ambulance. I didn’t want that, so I called my brother and he picked me up from the gym.
So, now that I am in the basement all by my lonesome I don’t want to faint like I did that time. I would be on the floor for hours before anyone would wake up and realize I had face planted and was on the floor. And then I have nightmares of the treadmill spinning and eating at my face. Not a pretty sight. That is why I slowed my walk down and started to go at a slower pace. I eventually stopped as my tummy grumbled some more. After my workout, I toast an english muffin and drink my wonderful morning coffee. My tummy is now content. I then take a nice shower and condition my very long hair a couple of times. As you may know, I am growing out my hair so that I can donate it to Wigs for Kids. I’ve wanted to donate it a few months back, but with this pandemic, I haven’t gone to the hair salon to get it cut. So, I continue to let it grow and have been taking very good care of it so I can donate very long strands of hair. Maybe they can cut the hair in half and make two wigs out of the hair. I’m not sure how it works, I just want to do good for a kid who needs it. It’s the easiest charity I could possibly be part of. All it takes is some extra time to take care of the hair. I haven’t gotten it cut in a lot of months, but looking at it, I don’t have any split end or damage. It’s surprisingly growing very well and it’s ready to be part of a wig. When the time comes to cut it, I will of course document the process and will let you know when the hair is put to use. The company is nice enough to send a postcard to let the person who donates know when their hair has been used for a wig. My heart was very happy when I donated and received that postcard a few years back.
Today is International day of Women and Girl in Science #WomenInScience. As mentioned, my little one wants to be a doctor and she will need to know everything there is to know about the sciences. I’ve been finding myself watching videos about the human body so I can explain to her how the body works so she may be interested in actually becoming a doctor. If not, it’s always good to know how the human body works. The more you know the further you’ll go. Isn’t that the saying? Well, who know what she will do in the future. It’s a wide open road out there and she can be anything she wants to be. If you look at me and my career, I went from working in a beauty supply story to TV then Radio to working on websites to now being part of the IT department in my company. You never know where life will take you. With that, my advise it to always be kind to everyone you meet and encounter, you will never know where you may wind up.
It’s Friday and today is all about meetings. I’ve had meetings back to back all morning and then will have some more in the afternoon. During my lunch hour, we have yet another meeting. But this is a good one. It’s from the WiLL (Women in Leadership Levels) committee. We have team leaders speaking on leading and the pandemic. One of the women panelists said to have meetings and have them often. Especially with your team and during this time of working from home. It is essential to keep a dialog with your peers and management. And, that’s what we do at our lovely IT department. We meet with the business teams and then meet with the vendors and developers. Meet, meet, meet, meet, meet. We also have one-on-ones with our manager. And once every other month or so, we have a meeting with our upper management. It’s time consuming, but I think it’s a good thing since we don’t see each other in the hallways or in the café for lunch. We also have a lot of communication with our instant messaging system. And of course emails. So many emails. As for me, I like emails. It’s something I can revert back to and re-read what we talked about. With my memory being as bad as it is, it’s helpful for me.
Today, one of our very own Business Analysts is leaving the company. I send him a quick instant message to wish him the best of luck with his future endeavor and then I connect with him on LinkedIn. I looked at his job description and even stole a line or two and added it to mine. Of course I changed it up a bit, don’t want to plagiarize. I’m not that kind of person. Not going to lie, I’ve also updated my resume with this new description. It’s good stuff, I tell you! Take a look. Meanwhile, I am working on getting an appointment through my pharmacy for the covid vaccine. I believe in vaccines and I would like to get this type. However, it doesn’t look like I’ll be able to get the two doses any time soon. They are all booked. But, I’ll keep on trying.
In the afternoon, of course I have yet another meeting. This one is with one of the ladies from the Latin America group and it is a pleasure to speak with her. After this meeting, I have a lot of work to do, but it is always a pleasure speaking with her. The meeting makes me happy so I decide to get in touch with friends and get onto my social media sites. Today, I am happily getting in touch with people I’ve worked with in the past. I hope they are happy to hear from me. I am genuinely happy at this point and want to share the wealth 🙂 That meeting really put me in a good place and I am in a really good mood. So, in my past live I used to work at a radio station that had a couponing site. I worked there as a sales assistant full time, and promotions director and board operator part time. I really wanted to be in the business so I would pick up anything that I could to learn all about the radio business. At one point they needed a content creator for a new couponing site they were working on, so I applied and got the job. Initially as part time and then I was able to secure myself the job at full-time capacity. This is where I learned a lot about websites, how they work and how to create them. This is where I fell deep for the love of the interwebs. I am in internet marketing today because of that job. I reached, learned and helped out. Now I have a career that is part of the internet, and I am enjoying it very much. So I reached out to some of the team members from that particular job to let them know I was thinking about them. I was also talking to a long lost friend. I saw her daughter on social media and she looks exactly like her mamma. So we got to talking and I’m glad we did. We talked about life, our parents and how much of a pain they are lol. Also talked a little bit about life in general and how things are going. All the while I was continuing to do my work until about nine in the evening. Since I had so many meetings, I wasn’t able to get my marketing work completed, so I took on the work in the evening. My husband took our daughter out for a drive, just to get out of the house for a little while. Poor thing has been cooped up in the house the entire fall and winter. Only to go outside every once in a while to play in the snow. So the house was quiet and I was able to get my work completed and multitask by typing to my friends.
Until next time.
Stay safe!
Best,
Isabel
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