Week one of the new position was a bit insane, but I learned a few things and survived a little stronger and little wiser. Thursday night I worked until 5:30. After I got home and relaxed for a while (and the numbness in my brain started to ease), I logged back in and worked from home for a bit. Then Friday I was back working 7:30-5 and forgot about lunch. But considering I am leaving 2 hours early twice over the next 2 weeks... I've already made up over 1/2 of it!
Last night when I got home from work, I mentally had nothing left. I barely managed laying on the sofa watching TV and I was in bed before 11. Today I ended up sleeping in until 10:30. I feel like I did nothing, but I know I did. Granted, no shower today, I didn't leave my house and as far as my clothes, I changed from one set of sweats to another.
BUT... I sent several emails I didn't have time to work on, researched an archery place for the fitness group, emailed for having another MMA fitness class for the group, posted 2 lap swimming events, and 2 races... a 5 mile run and a Thanksgiving Day 5K. I cleaned off all the crap on my kitchen table and went through all the paperwork that had been piling up.
Then I did go through all of the clothes I had in a basket in the corner of my closet room, and went through a few of the dresser drawers as well. Now I have 2 trash bags full of clothes that I'm giving to my friend Karen for her yard sale. She's doing it as a fund raiser for her team for the Breast Cancer walk in Boston next May. She's doing the 2 day 40 mile walk. I'd rather give her a chance to raise money with the clothes first. As long as she donates anything that doesn't sell.
So I did accomplish a few things. Believe it or not, I was sitting at my kitchen table on my lap top for about 4 hours today! OH yeah, I went through everything for the election on November 2nd.... the questions and who's running. I'm doing the absentee ballot thing again, and I'll have to know all of that for next weekend and then have my mom drop it all off for me.
SO back to the new job... I think this is going to be ok. I've worked hard already in the past week and a half. I've managed my first training, I've found a few issues and come up with some ideas to fix them. I've stayed on top of things to make sure what I'm doing doesn't fall through the cracks. I know I have a TON left to learn. I'm trying to not get too overwhelmed. I know I can do it. And I know I'll do well at it. I just need to get all the info down and go easy on myself. I can't learn it all in a day.
Hmm... fitness group. Still doing the running, even through I was supposed to go for a run today and didn't. Now I'll have to get up early tomorrow to make up for it. And I want to take a yoga class tomorrow at 10am, if I can do that too.
I'm looking forward to starting the lap swimming I found. It's free too! Pretty happy about that one! I already have me plus 3 for the first one on the 4th of November. Not sure how I'll do, but it'll be fun to try something a little different.
Who would have thought, back last New Years when I came up with naming my year, that it would be this true when I named 2010 The Year of Fitness! MMA Fitness Training, doing a 5 Mile run (that's right, not a 5K on 11/7, but a 5 MILE run!), and running 2-3 times a week, yoga at least once a week, now swimming? Damn! Who am I and where did I come from? :)
It's amazing how much I have changed just in the last year. This time last year, I was still living in the old apartment just barely looking for a new place to live. I was starting cortisone injections into my spine for the bulging disc in my neck. I was 30 pounds heavier than this. I didn't have too many friends and had a hard time reaching out to people. I had just stepped up as the organizer of the fitness group as well.
Now look at me and my life? I'm the healthiest I have every been in my entire life, and I'm the happiest too! I'm crazy busy all the time with different fitness events and have so many new friends for new adventures. I've done things I never would have imagined and have more confidence in myself than I have ever had before. I have really grown up and forged ahead in my life in a great direction. I think great new opportunities are going to continue to present themselves to me and just be there for the taking with me. It'll be up to me to see them, recognize them for what they are and seize them if I choose. I can control the direction of my life. I can control what happens next.
I am really happy with everything that is going on and with what has happened in my life. I know I can continue to succeed in everything I do.
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