My life right now is a complete blur.
Between drop offs, pick ups, meals, work, commuting, the ‘day job’, field trips, baths, bed time, birthdays, crafts supplies and the promise of actual crafting that doesn’t really materialize, crying, parting the fights, administering punishment, hugs, kisses, movie-time, reading, cleaning the house, laundry, oh and my boss quitting, cooking, and apparently dealing with a nap addiction… my life is giving me a headache!
How are you guys managing?
Firstly, Hershey’s Snacksters are totally addictive and do not be fooled by the “100 calories” per pack thing they have going on because, let me tell you, if you eat one pack, you will want more!
This morning I was working with one of my clients, who, like most of my clients, feels more like a friend – and when I say “this morning”, what I mean is 2am-kinda-morning – as we’re on the verge of launching this really great website, which took, literally more than a hundred hours of work, but all so worth it. I thought to myself that it was a pretty amazing accomplishment, and we were both excited about how far we’d come. Only to be faced with, a mere 2 hours before beta launch, an almost complete meltdown of the site.
Strangely, I didn’t feel as panicked as I probably should have, I just had this thought of “well, lessons learnt, let’s just move forward”. This reaction is a new one for me, as the “old” me is prone to panic, frustration, and a very high degree of annoyance when things don’t go as planned. New me, though, has new perspective, less anxiety, and more serenity. I owe a lot of this “new” me to my recent life altering discoveries.
I have gained a lot from simple introspection, and I keep thinking of this “saying” someone told me, (I don’t remember who so props to whoever did and sorry I don’t remember) and now I am paraphrasing, but it’s basically that life does it’s own thing – no matter what we plan, or want, or do – if we go against “life’s plan” it just makes things more difficult for us, but if we accept it and work with it (or around it) things are easier for us, but either way… life goes on as it’s meant to go on.
Ok. Not sure if I stopped making sense around “100 calories”, so I think I am going to leave you with this for now – coffee, ahhhh, like warm crack in a cup!
and caffeine, lots of it.
(they are having honey and lemon tea)
I am really happy and grateful to be back to working again, like a normally-functioning person (after the whole great funk of ’08 episode!) but I am quite literally drowning in the shear amount of work that I need to get done within the almost impossible to meet deadlines. It makes me happy though – a lot of work, crazy timelines – it’s like I was born to work under these conditions!
Mousehunter: Why don’t you go take a nap?
Me: Huh? Why? Do I look that bad?
Mousehunter: YES!
If the man actually noticed that I looked tired, I think it’s probably safe to say that I do not look good!
It’s just that I have a lot of work to finish, especially from the time of the funk when all I did was sleep! I was able to pass off a lot of my projects to the wonderful and talented designers at Swank Web Style, but I still have a fair amount that I could not hand off and need to complete as soon as humanly possible, or perhaps faster!
Anyways, I have a job interview on Thursday! I am not sure about my feelings, but I think that I need to take a small break from working on my own and get back into the company of real live people who’s most frequently used word is not “poop”, and who don’t cry and say “pick me up”, all day long.
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