This work week is filled with meetings and kudos. My boss gave me an atta girl email that made me feel all of the feels. We clean out a space in our house to make room for toys and a living area. And, I’m listening to a lot of books and podcasts online.
Over the weekend we played in the snow and made crafts. On Sunday, I listened to “Dare to Lead” by Brené Brown. It is a great book for leaders and success.
It’s Monday and I get up nice and early and get to my treadmill. I walk for a while than I run for a little while longer. Then, I do my situps and stretch. I get my coffee and breakfast going. Then on to my shower. I start my work day off earlier than nine in the morning because I have a lot to do and there are not enough hours in the day to do them. I work and work all day and barely have time for lunch. Now, it’s eight in the evening and here I am still logged on and holding on to my websites like they will die if I don’t pet them, nicely. The family are watching Game of Thrones and the little one is watching a cartoon called Gumball. I don’t want to watch either of those, so, I’m in my bedroom/office listening to Rachel Hollis talking about her book “Didn’t See That Coming” on youtube. While listening to my buddy Rachel, I’m also working on items that I need to launch in March, for work, of course. I am launching eleven items on the same day and then another ten items the day after. There are at least 100 pieces of content that I need to post on the website. I am not looking forward to doing this. But I must. So, to work I go.
It’s Tuesday morning and I wake up groggy and feel like I have a sore throat. I drink some water to clear my throat but it goes down the wrong pipe and I start caughing. Darn it, I’m hoping that I don’t wake up the house as everyone is still sleeping. Luckily, no one wakes up from my caughing fit. I then get online before eight in the morning and get started on my work day. As mentioned yesterday, I have a lot to do on my websites and am getting a head start this fine morning. I see my schedule today and notice I have a day filled with meetings. I even have a meeting during my lunch hour. It’s a good one though. It’s regarding our book club. The book club is going to talk about the book that I have been listening to; ‘Dare to Lead’ by Brene Brown. We talk about chapter one and there is a lot to talk about. It’s all about vulnerability. This vulnerability thing is a new one for me. I grew up in an environment where you’d suck it up and keep going. Vulnerability does not compute. It’s absolutely something new to me. One of the quotes that I like from the book is “Perfectionism and fear are keeping people from learning and growing.” We talked a bit about that during our meeting and I shared that I’ve been having some trouble with someone who, in my opinion, has fear and therefore not learning anything new. I shared that I provided proof of an item that I was speaking to this person about and they continued to either have that fear or perfectionism of knowing all about the subject or fear that they don’t know about the subject and therefore making me feel dumb. At one point when we talked, it was clear to me that the person didn’t read the proof that I had provided earlier in the day… #frustrating! Towards the evening I continue to work. I had so many meetings today that I did not have any time to do any of my marketing and content posting work. I have a product launching early next week and have a lot of content to post and templates to create. So, like yesterday, in the evening, to work I go. By the way, today, I’ve received a package from Target and noticed that their packaging baggies are scented. The bags that filled with air to hold everything in place. Babypowder scented, I think. It’s a great idea. Whoever had that idea is a genious. All of the deliveries that we’ve received has a stale smell. Now, everything that comes from that store has a powery scent. Like Elle Woods from the movie “Legally Blond” I remember her resume was pink and scented. “It gives it it that little somethin extra.” I say “Go Target!”
While doing my work into the wee hours of the night, I am listening to a TED Talk by Brene Brown called The Power of Vulnerability. Brene ended her talk with ‘I am enough.’ Great talk, take a listen when you have some time. By nine in the evening I’m finished with my work. It’s not completed, but I’m done for the day. Shortly after, I put on my pjs and get to bed. Sleeping away and getting ready for another meeting filled day tomorrow.
It’s Wednesday and I get up a little later than originally wanted. Today is a gym day but I am all sorts of groggy. I hope I’m not getting sick. Instead of getting on the treadmill, I take out my yoga mat and look for a video online. I found a video that I like and I follow along. As I’m doing my yoga poses, I notice that I’m all sorts of stiff. My limbs are a little tight but my back is really tight. Yoga helped to loosed all of these muscles up today. I then did my regular stretches and situps to complete my workout. I then get my coffee going and drink some of this sweet, sweet nectar. I love coffee. I drink Foldgers brand at home and it is delicious. Please note that I do not get paid to advertise this coffee, I simply like the flavor. To think of it, I don’t get paid for any of the items that are posted on my blog, this or any other. Whatever I write about are my own thoughts and likings and nothing is an advertisement. I should probably post this on every blog that I create. I will look into how I can put a disclaimer on my blog. If you have any experience with this, please share your knowledge.
After my coffee, I get online and start my work day. I am working on the items that I couldn’t get to yesteday evening. So this morning, way before nine in the morning, I am working away. What’s a real pain in the behind is how long some thing take to do as some items take a long time to create, systematically. Then systems need to talk to one another and this takes time, and so, I wait. Most days, I don’t have patience, so I multitask. This is not the greatest of ideas because then I am doing a few things at the same time and one of the things I’m working on gets lost in the midst. When I do this, by the end of the day, there are one or two items that have been left hanging. Maybe, I simply need to slow down and go through the process as it should. After all, multitasking is a bit of an oxymoron. Not many can do it and doing it well is not for everyone.
It’s Thursday morning and I am all stretched out as I did Yoga for about an hour again this morning. My husband was awake and he, of course, started making fun of the poses. He asked if I was going to fly away with my yoga moves. I told him to shut it…in a very colorful way. It’s way too early to be made fun of. I then have my coffee, take my shower and get to work. As per usual, I have a lot of meetings today. One of the meetings is regarding emails and why people are not receiving them from one of the websites I manage. The developers are talking about databases and other items. I have no idea of what they are talking about, but I stay strong and talk to the team like I’m following along. I think they knew I have no idea. But, I am trying and doing my best to follow along.
During my lunch hour, we are clearing out the basement. My husband is all about throwing a ton of our things out. I’m with him. We have a bunch of things that we’re saving; for absolutely no reason. So we take a bunch of things out and I will tossing them to the curb for garbage pick up next week. I posted a few of those things online in the facebook marketplace to sell. I have a bunch of leftover things from my wedding and other events that I clearly no longer need. They are on the site for sale, and I’ve just changed the price and lowered it for the items to move fast.
In the afternoon, I am testing an item on my website that just isn’t working. I’ve tested a slew of excel spread sheets and nothing seems to work. I removed and added things and then I eventually removed all of the special characters from the spread sheet and uploaded the sheet one more time; and it finally worked. I then sent an email back to our internal user to let them know what I tested and to let them know that all of the special characters that are on the spread sheet have to be removed. I mention to the user that characters such as parantheses or the dollar sign are commands on html files. I also let them know that the system works on html files and since the spread sheet has all of those item in it. It is the reason why it is sending back errors and why the user can not upload the file to the site. With that, I provide a clean spread sheet to the user and let them know that, that is what it should look like. I also send a screen shot along to them with proof that the upload worked for me. I’m telling you this story because my boss gave me kudos for doing a thorough test and providing proof. I am a very happy camper this afternoon after receiving my ‘atta girl.’ In the evening my little one, daddy and grandma are watching the live action movie, Aladin! Such a great movie. I’ve of course, I’ve already seen this one. Many times! The cartoon is my favorite Disney movie of all time! While they are watching that, I am in my bedroom/office listening to The 7 Steps To QUICKLY Get Out Of A RUT! on youtube and writing affirmations at the same time. At this time, I see a quote on instagram that I love. Here it is; “My actual goals are to be so successful and independent that I can spoil myself and my family and do what I love and go where I want whenever.” I am really feeling this. My montra has always been to be ‘indpendently wealthy’ but the quote to ‘spoil my family’ is more meaningfull to me. Love it, Love it!
It’s Friday and I sleep past my alarm clock. Sure it wakes me up, but I stay nice and cozy in bed for a little while longer. No treadmill or yoga for me this morning. After I get up and get my coffee, I get to the ‘office’ and log on to my email. It’s seven thirty in the morning and I’m answering emails and taking care of the product lauch for I have for Monday morning. I will be out of the office on Monday and will be handing over the information to my coworker. She will do the simple part that is the work for the day of launch. I’ve already sent my multiple coworkers ‘how to’ documents and sent emails about all of the content that is supposed to be on the website. So far no feedback, from anyone. I trully hope that everything runs smoothly on Monday. I’ve told my boss that, if all else fails, I will be home on my day off and she can give me a call if something does not work out. Meanwhile, I am notified that there will be another product launching mid March. I have a bunch of items launching on the week of the 15th of March for all sorts of our product groups. I have so much to post and not much has been provided to me, content wise. I will probably have to be online late nights and early mornings that week in order to get everything ready. “Can’t wait,” I say sarcastically.
It’s Saturday morning and guess what I’m doing…you gessed it; I’m posting content on my website. The house is still asleep and I am online posting leftover price lists and memos that I was not able to post yesterday since it was getting late in the evening, and quite frankly my eyes were getting tired of being online. I notice that one of my coworkers is also online this morning and I send him a quick instant message. But he doesn’t reply back to me. Either he’s already offline or he’s simply ignoring me. Was going to tell him that I felt like that song from the 80’s, Everybody’s Working for the Weekend by Loverboy. Just listened to it, it’s such a cheezy song lol. Don’t know if my coworker would get the reference, he can be as dry as toast. But hey, I think it’s funny. Don’t you? For the rest of the day, my little one and I are working on the 100th day of school project. We are making a t-shirt with a gumball machine. My husband, the handy one, sews on some tule onto the t-shirt as to make it into a tutu and then draws the bumball machine with pencil. He is so cretive! All we have to do now is add fuzzy pieces to the t-shirt to make the ‘gum’ for the gumball machine. My little one gets bored of working on the project and so we put on a movie. Today, we are watching Lady and the Tramp the cartoon from 1955. She is enjoying it very much. Watch, now she’s going to want a puppy. Well, I mean, who doesn’t?! Meanwhile, I am working on the paperwork for our taxes. I take pictures and send the information over to our CPA. He is a dear friend of ours and we’ve been working with his company for many years. If you’re shopping for a CPA for pesonal or business, I highly recommend Ken Higgins as he and his team are fantastic. I’m not advertising, per se. I’m simply a fan. It’s a rainy day today and we are inside all day watching tv and doing crafts. Tomorrow will be more of the same. Too bad we can’t go out into the wild. Covid is still in full swing and we do not want to catch this crazy virus. So, at home sweet home, we stay.
Until next time.
Stay Safe!
Best,
Isabel
Isabel's world 