June 19, 2011
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Entrelac, Work, Rotary, Table, Yoga, Free Time?
I’m tired. My brain has been on full overload. I have spent the past few weeks at work churning through a lot of very important things and doing a lot of paperwork. My job has a few hard and fast deadlines for BIG things, (year end financials, monthly financials, LOC renewal, insurance renewals, etc) and I have completed one of these and have until June 30 to complete another.
Meanwhile it is Rotary time. Our year begins on July 1 and I am cleaning up the ends of one job and doing a LOT of prep work for a new role that we have redefined. My new role (outside of the title) will be to begin a full scale program of member engagement. It is very exciting but will be the first year of taking an “idea” or a “feeling” and putting measurable results behind it. I haven’t finished all the details but plan on doing that on my plane ride out on Monday and mulling about it for a day or two more then sending out all the details to the team before our kick off meeting. 
The annual Women in Business conference is next week. One full week away from the office however the opportunties are fantastic and I am excited about it!And then there are the things that suffer when I am so overwhelmed but I am trying hard to counterbalance. I will enjoy a Mysore class today and keep working hard on
getting my feet OFF the ground (isn’t it funny my goal is to NOT have my feet grounded). Then I carved out two hours to go to knitting class and learn entrelac (knitting that looks woven but is not) 
(no this is not mine as I have just learned and have spent most of my time while practicing ripping out what I am working on). It was a great learning experience and that was two whole hours that I didn’t spend obsessing or stressing on something. AND then there is the table. The damn bane of my existence! You know the project you take on with great enthusiasm and then wham ~ it smacks you right in the head! 
This is how it started and my big green egg rests inside of the hole. This is mid progress 
and yesterday I finally finished tiling. Yea it weighs a LOT and thank GOD it is on wheels! Today I will grout it and when I return next weekend I will seal it and then I have to have people help me MOVE it back THEN put the Big green egg BACK inside of it. Going to work out to help with this…Free time. Time with my honey. We spend it during meal time, rest time, and me teaching him all about his new iPad (lately). He makes me smile, helps lower my stress and makes me always wish that I had more free time with him. After four years, I can still say that. His schedule is insane this summer and I will be gone next week and then we have another 1.5 days overlap before he is gone until August. ***sigh***
Time to rush around for another day. Time to hope to get that to do list done, pack and then rush around in another city. 8)
