I don’t know who thought having a Winter Workshop right
after break was a good idea but this was the week for it. At least I didn’t
have swimming so could go straight home after work every day.
The week started with monthly and quarterly reports to do
before diving into the workshop. While I was scrambling on monthly reports on
Monday morning, I got my foot caught in a wire and kicked my CPU over killing
my computer dead. Our IT guy was on vacation so I had to put a call into his
back up and wait. Not a good beginning to my work year but I was only down an
hour so I plowed right back in. I did the bare minimum on the reports and was
done by late Tuesday morning so started helping Cindy with last minute
logistics for the workshop. My classes had the most sign ups so I would be
facing rooms with 75+ people and had to do an hour of financial reporting that
kept everyone, from beginners to advanced, riveted. I rehearsed in my head for
days – in the car, in the shower, when I woke up in the wee hours – ALL THE
TIME. By Wednesday morning, I was pretty exhausted. But it was time for the
show.
I got to East Campus early and it was a good thing I did
because there were some technical difficulties. With those solved by the
helpful Union staff, I did my presentation with only a few hiccups. It was a
bit awkward because I didn’t have a screen to look at so had to constantly turn
around to see the projected screen behind me then turn back to the audience. I
also deleted something in the first class that I’d need for the afternoon class
so after sitting in on Mary’s travel class to take notes, I ran back to my
office to recreate the deleted variant and wolf down some lunch before the
afternoon sessions on City Campus. I had better equipment so the afternoon
session went off without a hitch. I went to a Tips & Tricks class after
mine and learned some great stuff. Then we packed everything up and headed back
to the office. DONE! I went home and sat like a zombie in a chair. I knitted
before bed (slept like a rock) but had to rip it all out the next morning. Thursday
was a new day and was over in a flash just with catching up on emails and
answering questions from my class. I finished my quarterly reports on Friday
and it was time for the weekend. Talk about a quick week!
Since my break seemed so short after my travel woes, my
intention for the weekend was to stay home. I had cancelled plans to go to an
auction with Andrea when she told me her boyfriend would be going (yay!) so I
happily sat knitting in the sun on Saturday morning. I had done some thrifting
after work during the week so had some new clothes to wash and laundry took
most of the day. It felt wonderful to be home and having a pleasant day with a
nice mix of productivity and vegging. All my chores were done by early Sunday do
I tackled putting new carpet on the kitty tower, which I’d taken down for the
New Year’s tea and hadn’t put back up. Erica had dropped off carpet remnants so
I was good to go. It took some time and the result was a patchwork of old and
new carpet but I was happy to get it done and back up so the cats would have
something besides my furniture to scratch. They also missed lounging on the
platforms so it was all good. I was still enjoying my tree so made the decision
to leave it up for one more week. I was happy about that too. The outside tree
will stay up even longer but the inside one, which oddly still hasn’t dropped
any needles despite not being watered in weeks, will have to go before the
cleaning lady comes again. All doable.
On the diet front, I had also started rotating again on
Friday so spent some time Saturday prepping produce for the week. I had been
planning not to rotate in 2016 in favor of doing 2 600 calorie semi-fasting
days/week but after the holidays, I couldn’t wait to get back to clean eating.
I also needed to lose the 8 pounds I’d gained while eating everything in sight
for almost 2 months. I felt instantly better after just half a day back on
track. By the end of the weekend, I’d already lost 5 pounds so was happy with
my decision to rotate again. Hopefully I can keep it up and lose 30-40 more
pounds. Then I might be up for the slower, semi-fasting plan.
So the first week was over and I was ready for the new year.
The next week would see the return of working out, which hopefully would help
hasten new weight loss. And winter seemed here to stay, which always means more
knitting time. All good, right? Happy 2016 everyone.
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