2010 - A whirlwind time at work

I realize how time can fly by so fast and how important it is for me to document the phases of life I go through. What I think of as normal right now turn out to be different in a matter of months...

My life at the minute is most easily described as "a whirlwind" and this image depicted it well - with the craziness but also the brilliant and positive colors.

Here's a typical workday....and seems to be the case for the next 12 weeks (tax season)

6:00am

Alarm goes off, I press snooze repeatedly and yearn for more sleep

6:45am

I have a "oh crap" moment, especially if I have a 7am meeting (yes, they happen more and more often)

6:46am

Check email for any emergencies (latest job is in an operations environment)

7:00am

Shower, weight myself (it is January after all), get dressed, run around going "I'm late" over and over again

7:15am

I've eaten something, kissed the hubby, checked email again, packing the bag with last minute items and am running out the door (of the fabulous home!)

7:30am

I'm at work (yes a great commute!), checking voice mail, email, and trying to gather my thoughts and priorities for the day before the floodgates open

8:00am

And the meetings are official going...

10:00am

More meetings

12:00pm

Still more meetings

1:00ish

I grab 10 minutes somewhere in the time zone to microwave my Lean Cuisine meal (reminder it is January) and a Diet Pepsi and to have a pee. You would not believe how hard it seems to be to just take a 5 minute break between meetings to pee - you upset the person that runs the meeting - or you are running the meeting....

2:00pm

More meetings

5:00pm

The official meetings have stopped, but I get a lot of "drop by" visits and calls from others that are in the meeting madness like me. Many actions and decisions get taken at these drop by's

6:00pm

Breathe.....now I start my "work". I check emails, make decisions, create reports, communicate out, write reviews for employees, make plans for the team, etc...

8:00ish

I strive for earlier but it always seems later that I leave. I can't seem to leave until I feel like I have "achieved" something (see my strengths = achiever and focus). I leave mentally exhausted.

9:00pm

I walk in the door, change into sweats or pj's, kiss the husband, maybe eat something, and sit on the sofa for some zone-out tv.

9:30pm

I'm feeling antsy and can't "just watch tv" so get out the iPhone and fiddle - often Twitter or Facebook seem to be the best tool to randomly connect. Twitter has now creeped into being a work thing too, so doing that one....

10:30pm

Nodding head on sofa, wake up drooling, get up and march to bed. Asleep in 5 mins. Guess sleep comes easier than it did last year....

30 Days to Turning 30...14 to go

I went to an interesting event last night, it was based on a personality assessment called the "enneagram" system. I only got a very short introduction and got the sense that there is a long history on this. But it was quite interesting to learn that human beings can be distilled into similar personalities or motivations and in this case, 9 of them.
I "typed" myself fairly quickly as well as seeing this in other people I know and work with. However, I could not type my husband at all. Is he a 5 or a 3? A 6 with a 9 heart string?
I left feeling sad that I don't know the man I love the most in the world.....but then again it's just a personality classification....and I know my husband in real life.

I guess that turning 30 means I know more about myself than I used to, as well as trusting that I know my husband in my heart and don't need a classification on him.
Happy Friday...