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Friday. Friday. Friday. Thank GOD.
This week was pretty stressful in my tiny world. It was an unfortunate convergence of all parts of my life, really. I had some minor stress at work: I had to go to a client site and give a training session to a room full of scientists who really really didn't want to be there (and who I couldn't help but think really should be off doing important life saving stuff and not sitting in a room listening to me). And it was on my DAY OFF! Early in the MORNING! An hour's drive from my HOUSE!
I also had to teach myself Dreamweaver and design a website and get it ready to go live for this weekend. And have a meeting with my least favorite person at my workplace — I dreaded this one for a week. [Oddly, that was the easiest part of my week; I am really dumb sometimes about the stuff I dread.]
And at the same time we discovered at home that there is indeed mold growing in spots in the basement which we need to deal with STAT! And my closet rod fell down which involved a redesign of my closet and much obnoxious Home Depot-ing, and couldn't be attended to immediately, which caused ENORMOUS piles of crap to teeter dangerously all over my room. Which made me cranky and claustrophobic.
I got a little perspective toward the middle of the week, talking to my friends. Everyone's got something major going on, most of it scary, stressful, or horrible, and eventually it sunk in that my week wasn't all that bad.
So right now, with the week behind me, all the chores done, looking at four days off, with my clothes neatly hung on the new rod, boxes neatly stacked on the new shelf, Dreamweaver safely conquered, PhDs off doing mysterious sciency things; thanks to all of these things, and even knowing that the Red Sox broke their 12 game winning streak tonight to the Florida Marlins (!), I am content. I just ate some Ben and Jerry's Cherry Garcia ice cream, and tomorrow is another day.
This week was pretty stressful in my tiny world. It was an unfortunate convergence of all parts of my life, really. I had some minor stress at work: I had to go to a client site and give a training session to a room full of scientists who really really didn't want to be there (and who I couldn't help but think really should be off doing important life saving stuff and not sitting in a room listening to me). And it was on my DAY OFF! Early in the MORNING! An hour's drive from my HOUSE!
I also had to teach myself Dreamweaver and design a website and get it ready to go live for this weekend. And have a meeting with my least favorite person at my workplace — I dreaded this one for a week. [Oddly, that was the easiest part of my week; I am really dumb sometimes about the stuff I dread.]
And at the same time we discovered at home that there is indeed mold growing in spots in the basement which we need to deal with STAT! And my closet rod fell down which involved a redesign of my closet and much obnoxious Home Depot-ing, and couldn't be attended to immediately, which caused ENORMOUS piles of crap to teeter dangerously all over my room. Which made me cranky and claustrophobic.
I got a little perspective toward the middle of the week, talking to my friends. Everyone's got something major going on, most of it scary, stressful, or horrible, and eventually it sunk in that my week wasn't all that bad.
So right now, with the week behind me, all the chores done, looking at four days off, with my clothes neatly hung on the new rod, boxes neatly stacked on the new shelf, Dreamweaver safely conquered, PhDs off doing mysterious sciency things; thanks to all of these things, and even knowing that the Red Sox broke their 12 game winning streak tonight to the Florida Marlins (!), I am content. I just ate some Ben and Jerry's Cherry Garcia ice cream, and tomorrow is another day.
