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Love is what matters

As today is valentine's day I get to be spoilt by my husband.
Now this does not happen often nor every year. The past 2 years have been dark years for us with it being easier to see the faults in ourselves and eachother.
But in just the past weeks we have both been trying to embrace life for living. The fun, the adventure, the people we meet, and the way we are eachothers friend, confidant, lover, and soul mate.

I was surprised and spoiled on Friday with the most beautiful arrangement of roses and lilies. I carried it around with me all day reciting the message inside.
"you are the bang that started my universe"

Saturday was a day out combining the adventure and excitement of a race with a walk on the beach. Can you believe that san Diego in feb is 70 degrees. Wow!!! Coming back home and enjoying our gorgeous house, lying in the sun, finishing the day with a great bottle of Syrah.

After a long night of sleep (how much I need to catch up here with the work hours I'm pulling and the sickness my body has been ravaged with).

I wake up to be treated to an outdoor oasis. Photos from our 16 years together encircling a throne to sit on and be cherished. Breakfast ensued that was fit to be made by any Top Chef master!!!

Oh what it is to be loved in life! Enjoy it, treasure it, celebrate it!



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January life

Trying to match my personal life to my work life - which means pack in as much as Possible into a few hours.

Hiking mountains
Biking cliffs
Lost 12 pounds...think it is more stress related...


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You don't know what tired is!

Living through the busy work season. It really wears on you to be exhausted weeks upon weeks.

You question if it's worth it, your marriage pays a price, you start to snap at people, and you don't know how to stop when you have a chance to not go 100 mph.

Do you get addicted to the speed? Is it worth it?

I have an opportunity to do something else - 5 years in 1 company is a long time. But it is easy to say the grass is greener on the other side?

And yet I feel like I would be stupid to accept this current state as normal - to say it's ok to work 35 hours in 2 days every week for 20 weeks.

Should I stay or should I go?


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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....

just got reminded of ping and how it makes my social life easier barcampsd

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