Swimmies for My Mind Like Water
I think the community outreach event went over well thus far. We'll see how the follow up goes! It was a good group of about 25 people so thankfully I brought enough handouts for all. One of the feeders was there - and was like "Hey, I feed the cats!" and that was ruling and made things a little easier since I stressed that the solution starts with the feeders. Anyway, they thanked me and said they didn't know that all of these feral cat/cat adoption resources were available to them. (I did warn them about most adoption agencies not having any room usually, and especially during kitten season. Managed expectations!)
I am a little tired from working late but I'm trying to have a mind-like-water approach (appropriate responses for the severity of a situation and letting them fade away as well, no stress build up). I am also finally at a place where I don't get too nervous about speaking to groups any longer (depending on the audience and topic) so tonight was more fun than stressful for me as I have my standard set of information handouts and can just wing it. I am trying to keep my outlook in that zone!
I have a bajillion projects on my "hot list" for tomorrow morning and needed to send out a list of tasks from the meeting that we had today. And and and. Everything is exciting though and I love my team and my job and I am glad I get paid to do the stuff I do! I am extremely extremely grateful for this and all of the opportunities I have to do work on behalf of feral cats even though that was not in my job description when I was hired! They've been very flexible in incorporating my expertise and that is pretty awesome to not make me do it after-hours. They have not objected to me making myself the point-person to catalog all of our agency's involvement with feral cats to assess our experience, expertise, strengths and opportunities in that area of animal welfare (cheeky move, I know - I saw an opportunity and I took it!). And I also like that my job is not only ferals because I get to learn a lot about sheltering and other issues tangentially and get to do the stuff I do well - organizing/communication/planning.
I almost forgot it was Mother's Day (and my mother's gd birthday is right near there!) - and I would have if someone didn't make a FB post about MOTHER'S DAY! Thus far my mother has mentioned relaxing someplace where there is sand and water. I am assuming this is not an estuary she's talking about but yet a beach-proper. I texted back for clarification. (Worst daughter: I texted her to see what she wanted to do!)
Wow, how is it raining again? I keep thinking about this guy who got lost in the Amazon and got damp-boot-foot-rot although I'm pretty sure that's not a danger here. I am considering an inflatible boat and swimmies for the cats at this point, though.
I am a little tired from working late but I'm trying to have a mind-like-water approach (appropriate responses for the severity of a situation and letting them fade away as well, no stress build up). I am also finally at a place where I don't get too nervous about speaking to groups any longer (depending on the audience and topic) so tonight was more fun than stressful for me as I have my standard set of information handouts and can just wing it. I am trying to keep my outlook in that zone!
I have a bajillion projects on my "hot list" for tomorrow morning and needed to send out a list of tasks from the meeting that we had today. And and and. Everything is exciting though and I love my team and my job and I am glad I get paid to do the stuff I do! I am extremely extremely grateful for this and all of the opportunities I have to do work on behalf of feral cats even though that was not in my job description when I was hired! They've been very flexible in incorporating my expertise and that is pretty awesome to not make me do it after-hours. They have not objected to me making myself the point-person to catalog all of our agency's involvement with feral cats to assess our experience, expertise, strengths and opportunities in that area of animal welfare (cheeky move, I know - I saw an opportunity and I took it!). And I also like that my job is not only ferals because I get to learn a lot about sheltering and other issues tangentially and get to do the stuff I do well - organizing/communication/planning.
I almost forgot it was Mother's Day (and my mother's gd birthday is right near there!) - and I would have if someone didn't make a FB post about MOTHER'S DAY! Thus far my mother has mentioned relaxing someplace where there is sand and water. I am assuming this is not an estuary she's talking about but yet a beach-proper. I texted back for clarification. (Worst daughter: I texted her to see what she wanted to do!)
Wow, how is it raining again? I keep thinking about this guy who got lost in the Amazon and got damp-boot-foot-rot although I'm pretty sure that's not a danger here. I am considering an inflatible boat and swimmies for the cats at this point, though.