Holidays and then the flurry after - accelerate through the wobble

Working the last 2 weeks of December was very relaxing, because a lot of people were on vacation. Work did not start up until January 5th because of the way the calendar worked this year, and many of my work mates traveled that first week in January, so this week has been crazy, with everyone back in the office. In addition, a ton of people chose this week, to schedule big meetings and to visit.

I did not get to yoga either time this week, and it is my fault. Cannot blame anyone else for not taking care of me. I am going to find another yoga class that I can substitute, when the tuesday and thursday morning one does not work for me. There is one at 5:45 am on those mornings, BUT even I am not that crazy.

It is January 14th, and I feel like I have been through a month of work since those 2 precious weeks. This is the cycle of work I think. Flat out, pedal to the metal, and then a bit of relaxing. Rinse, repeat.

Tomorrow is the craziest day, with a professional meeting at 7:30am, women's network meeting at 10, calls from 12pm-5pm and somewhere in there I drive to the airport to pick Bee up from Logan, since she is returning from her trip to Egypt and Greece.

Something will have to drop tomorrow, or like the speed wobble that we talked about earlier this year after a leadership conference. "Accelerate through the wobble". I don't have the reference handy, but might remember to post it once I find it.

My blogging has changed

OK, when I started this blog, it was my only social media, it was the only way I was communicating to anyone who happened upon this url, about what I was thinking and what I was doing. It was the only place I posted "public" pictures.

Then, I discovered Facebook. Yeah, Yeah, it is almost 2 years since I discovered Facebook but only in the last 5-6 months have I really been using it a lot. Go to my facebook account, friend me and see how much I have posted. If you really want to know what I am up to in small bites, Facebook is the source. If you want to know what I am thinking about more deeply my blog is the source.

It is funny to talk to adults about Facebook. Some look at me like I have 2 heads, when I tell them I have a facebook account. Others shyly say "me too".

OK, so about 6 months ago, Twitter entered my computer. I can update my Facebook status from Twitter. I can use my mobile phone to update twitter and Facebook. I just discovered that Plaxo has my facebook updates. So I have resisted using Twitter a lot, since I really want one place to update but I have 2 now. So for the immediate future, Facebook for small sound bites, my blog for longer maybe not deeper thoughts.

I am contemplating not having a Holiday letter and picture collage for the second year in a row. If you want to know what I have been up to for the last year, read this blog and go to my Facebook account. Maybe we will do a picture collage and post it here and there.

Change is hard, maybe Twitter will become indispensable to me . . . but not today. Go to Facebook for now.

A Day in the Life of ME

I just scanned my Inbox for today and realized that this is my life, although today seemed a bit more extreme than normal. This is only my business email Inbox, to say nothing of my personal email Inbox. I try to keep the 2 separate.

Here Goes my day:

• Because we drove down from Vermont my 9:30am meeting was 1/2 on the phone and 1/2 live. We covered over 10 agenda items at this meetings.
• Our company placed #22 on the Boston Globe Top Places to work so there were details today that I handled around that
• An employee only got 1/10 of his paycheck and I had to help him trace that down
• 3 VPs are visiting from Mountain View this week, so those logistics were discussed
• We organized an ice cream social to celebrate the Boston Globe award, and we needed to make sure that did not collide with the 3 VP meetings
• We ordered prizes for the Christmas party
• I was on a phone call for 90 minutes with all the other HR people who support Marketing
• I checked to make sure our quarter mobility data was correct
• An employee stopped by dissatisfied with his role
• We checked and some of the organizational data for our Annual Employee Survey, which started today, could have been confusing, so we try to sort that out
• blah, blah, blah

My point is that some days are very predictable and steady and I can actually tell you what I will be working on and some are like today where a lot of my day was eaten up my unpredictable stuff.

I should plan for the unpredictable ones, which I guess would not make them unpredictable . . .

It does not help that I could not sleep last night and when the alarm went off at 5am, I said "Well that is not good news!"

I love my job, and thrive on days like today because I can handle this many things at once without letting any of the BIG ONES drop to the floor. I will sleep well tonight.