Not True...
I am doing shit today.
I overseeded the front and side yards yesterday, a necessary step after last year's drought, so I went a bought a sprinkler today. That purchase is currently running on the front lawn as I type, watering in the seed. I'll move it to the side yard in about 15 minutes. Then to the other side yard about 30 after that. Then watering for today will be done.
I also got my seed starting supplies so sometime today I plan to start my tomatoes, eggplant, basil, maybe the beans, and several types of flowers (cone flower, wallflower, and portulaca).
And I have to work today. Seriously! No rest for the wicked, right? I actually don't have much to do but we got an investment add from Marketing last week, at the last minute of course, and it has a really short time frame. I've been doing these things for years so I told TPTB that I'd set everything up this weekend as I can get it done faster by myself than it will take me to train someone else. Everyone agreed, some reluctantly (more on that in a minute) so I need to get it done today as I spent all day yesterday out in the yard raking, cleaning up leaves and debris in the gardens, seeding, etc. Oh, and I hurt like a mother today but its a good hurt.
The reluctance was on the part of my new boss's boss, whom I'm kind of working for - think dotted line on the org chart. Anyway I had my one-on-one with him earlier in the week and one of the big things that came out of that was that he needs me to start saying "NO" on the investment maintenance and discretionary work as that shit is taking up too much of my time. If I'm going to be an architect and make time for the training I need, etc, I can't be spending half my week doing small work effort stuff. He is absolutely correct, which is why I've been training the two new guys we have so they can take over. But that takes time, they aren't quite there yet, and sometimes we get things last minute that need immediate response. At those times I'm your girl because I know what I'm doing and I can move fast. Thus the agreement to let me do it albeit reluctantly.
The other part of that conversation is that he definitely sees me as one of the architects although we don't agree on where my talents lie. He thinks in the Technical Architect and Business Process Architect quadrants. I think in the Application Architect and Business Process quadrants. We do agree that I can flex well and play in all four quadrants when required to (the quadrants are Technical, Application, Business Process, and Data). So we'll see what happens. He's still coming up with his plan but I get the feeling that in the next couple of months I'll be reporting directly to him and no longer doing what I'm doing now.
Lots up in the air but I am seriously enjoying work more these days than I have in years!
OK - need to go move the sprinkler and get to work.