My staff wanted to take some time off around Christmas, so I worked and took a couple of days off around New Year’s. It meant I had almost a full week off - in a row! Spouse and I stayed mostly in the house (I stayed COMPLETELY in the house) and didn’t really interact with anyone else - very few phone calls. For me, it was PERFECT.

I think at one ( Read more... )

I was reading through my feedly and found a bunch of people doing 2014 retrospectives. All I could think was that 2014 was kind of a dick. Don’t get me wrong, there have been some really good points but from an overall ‘disappointed in society/politics/+people who still hate women/people of color/lgbtq’… kind of a dick.

So I’m going to talk about ( Read more... )

It was a pretty fantastic week for me at work, lots of good things which came down the pipe and my six-month anniversary.

I mentioned before that I’ve been work journaling and it continues to be really helpful. What I’ve found is that if I’m putting my work annoyance down, I’m less interested in talking about it. When I DO talk about it, it becomes ( Read more... )

I’m attaching a gigantic Google-crafted panoramic photo from last week. The weather is still really lovely fall weather - getting a bit more gray and most of the leaves are on the ground, but the temperatures are consistently around 50 during the day.

I’m nearly done with week 3 of Zombies, Run! 5k. I’m still really enjoying the app, enough that I ( Read more... )

While Montana doesn’t have the intense color of the midwest, it does have thoroughly lovely fall weather. I took that photo early yesterday morning after a work breakfast out of town.

I hadn’t realized how much I missed fall, but living in the mountains meant less ‘fall’ and more ‘two cool days before winter.’ This fall has been chock full of ( Read more... )