My week in review.
I slept in on Saturday, but I still felt very tired and achy all day. I rested a lot, and forced myself to do some house cleaning in between periods of resting. I actually got a lot done over the weekend. I cleared the bathroom counters, which had gotten quite cluttered, and washed the counters and sink. I did four loads of laundry, washed two weeks worth of dishes (clean kitchen counters! clean dishes! I can see my stove! Oh, the joy!), and took about six bags of trash out to the dumpsters from when I cleared out my basement a few weeks ago. I had a wonderful sense of accomplishment.
I still felt kind of crappy during the early part of the day on Sunday, but I forced myself to stay awake and active and not go back to bed, so as to ensure that I got a good night's sleep. But by late afternoon I was starting to feel pretty normal, and by evening I was sure I was going to be well. And I have been.
Good thing, too, because my week was pretty busy. I'll be assisting in a training session for new employees - about 15 people - on having effective meetings next Friday. This is the first time I've ever done anything like this. I've given talks before on technical topics, and I've enjoyed it and been pretty good at it. But I'm discovering that this is a bit different. I'm sure It'll go fine, but I'm a little bit unsure at the moment.
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There was a pretty yellow-gold sunrise at 7:30 this morning. I was glad to see it not only because it was pretty, but because the light is returning.
However, a big winter storm is coming in tonight. I went out after work and got a bunch of groceries, so I won't have to go out at all this weekend if I don't want to. I forgot to get something from the fruits and vegetables section, and had to backtrack through the flower section. I had to inch my way through a road block. I know that giving flowers on Valentine's Day is traditional and can be romantic, and I like flowers...they're pretty and alive and nice. But seeing all those men in line like that to get their red and white flowers made the whole thing seem really commercial and cheesy. Just for that moment. I'm not being bitter just because I don't have anyone to spend Valentine's Day with, and haven't had, for four years. ( No really. I'm not. It'll happen to me again someday.) It just kind of took the magic out of it. It was like I'd seen in the dressing room of a Broadway musical, and people didn't look pretty and glittery. I would like to forget I saw that. Yeah, and walking past the Victoria's Secret in the mall today, too. I'd like to forget I saw that. I didn't need to see that.
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File under the category of strange coincidences: I'm eating lunch in a local deli downtown, and the 70's disco version of Also Sprach Zarathrustra over the deli's speakers (that deli has the most awesome Musak(tm)). I look down at the alternative paper I'm reading at an advertisement for a screening of 2001: A Space Oddessy. Weird.
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Oh, and...it's a three-day weekend for President's day. I'm really looking forward to sleeping in on a snowy winter morning.
I still felt kind of crappy during the early part of the day on Sunday, but I forced myself to stay awake and active and not go back to bed, so as to ensure that I got a good night's sleep. But by late afternoon I was starting to feel pretty normal, and by evening I was sure I was going to be well. And I have been.
Good thing, too, because my week was pretty busy. I'll be assisting in a training session for new employees - about 15 people - on having effective meetings next Friday. This is the first time I've ever done anything like this. I've given talks before on technical topics, and I've enjoyed it and been pretty good at it. But I'm discovering that this is a bit different. I'm sure It'll go fine, but I'm a little bit unsure at the moment.
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There was a pretty yellow-gold sunrise at 7:30 this morning. I was glad to see it not only because it was pretty, but because the light is returning.
However, a big winter storm is coming in tonight. I went out after work and got a bunch of groceries, so I won't have to go out at all this weekend if I don't want to. I forgot to get something from the fruits and vegetables section, and had to backtrack through the flower section. I had to inch my way through a road block. I know that giving flowers on Valentine's Day is traditional and can be romantic, and I like flowers...they're pretty and alive and nice. But seeing all those men in line like that to get their red and white flowers made the whole thing seem really commercial and cheesy. Just for that moment. I'm not being bitter just because I don't have anyone to spend Valentine's Day with, and haven't had, for four years. ( No really. I'm not. It'll happen to me again someday.) It just kind of took the magic out of it. It was like I'd seen in the dressing room of a Broadway musical, and people didn't look pretty and glittery. I would like to forget I saw that. Yeah, and walking past the Victoria's Secret in the mall today, too. I'd like to forget I saw that. I didn't need to see that.
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File under the category of strange coincidences: I'm eating lunch in a local deli downtown, and the 70's disco version of Also Sprach Zarathrustra over the deli's speakers (that deli has the most awesome Musak(tm)). I look down at the alternative paper I'm reading at an advertisement for a screening of 2001: A Space Oddessy. Weird.
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Oh, and...it's a three-day weekend for President's day. I'm really looking forward to sleeping in on a snowy winter morning.