Power Outages

Well, work has no power. Last night I got a text from my boss they would make a decision around 6am. Got a text that there was no power and to plan on 11am. I went back to bed until about 8am, which was SO nice!

When I got up, I had coffee, watched the news, checked my email and just chilled for a bit. Just after 9:30, I left to go for a walk. I needed to pick up something at the post office, about a mile away. It is SO beautiful out today, so I walked there and stopped at a store nearby to turn in a scratch ticket too.

As I was leaving the post office just before 10 my phone rang. Someone I work with said they needed me in the office and could I come in right away. I told her I wasn't home, I was out for a walk, in sweats and not showered. They didn't care.

I walked home, didn't even go into my house, and hopped in my car to head to work. They have NO power in that whole area... thousands are out. I had to find phone numbers for my contacts at our bigger accounts, the people I talk to almost every day, to tell them our servers are down.

Um, yeah, the people I talk to every day, 3 of them. One is in California and wasn't at work yet because it was so freakin early... about 7:30 their time! Then the other two... one in Delaware which got hit by Irene and the other in Vermont which had major flooding from Irene. I had to call one person I was working on a project with... she's in New York City. And then I have another local bank I am supposed do a training with tomorrow at 10am. I had to call her too to say I might have to cancel it.

So now... just after noon, and I'm home from work for the day. Our IT person doesn't expect power in the building until Wednesday. I have all of next week off for a scheduled vacation, which is AWESOME!! This is working out REALLY well. Today is sort of wasted, since I didn't know and couldn't really plan to do anything with the day off.

But I get to relax and enjoy! :) I'm excited about that part of it. Got a nice walk in already, and I have my running group tonight too. But all of my friends are working! I'm the only one with no work. Even my boyfriend has power at work and he works RIGHT around the corner from me. Oh well.

I'll enjoy the day as the gift that it is. Most of my house is already clean, I just need to vacuum and clean the shower now. I suppose I could go for another walk, but that'll just get boring if all I'm doing is walking, and THEN I got to the track tonight too.

Funny... now I have absolutely no idea what to do! I was home Saturday during the day, and Sunday morning I was home around 8 or 8:30. My boyfriend picked me up around 4 and we went to the movies last night. I was home for those 8 hours looking for things to do while I was stuck in with the storm.

So... house is clean, recycling is ready to go, food shopping is done. I just have the tiny bit of cleaning left. I don't really want to go shopping... I don't have the money to spend on it. So I just have NOTHING. I guess I could find a book to read. Or another magazine as I keep getting more and more caught up on them.

I did decide over the weekend to come up with some sort of daily goal. And I need to work on my birthday intentions too, although I LOVE the ones I came up with last year and I still have those posted up on the side of my fridge.

I'm such a goal orientated person. I work well with having a destination that I'm trying to reach. After doing a little exercise I read in a magazine over the weekend, I realized- or more confirmed- how much fitness is part of my life and how important it is in my life. Many of the things I want to do in the next 5 years are fitness related. So I want to work on that more.

Sometimes I just don't feel up for it. SO I want to have small goals, like do something for at least 10 minutes a day. Today.. I already walked to the post office and back and I'm having the running group tonight.

Hmm... how else can I work on this? Or tweak this? Could I pick one thing to do every day for a week for 10 minutes? Like Plank? Or crunches? Or pick a few exercises with a schedule... do 10 minutes of them every day? Like one day squats, lunges and kicks for 10 minutes or something like that? I don't know. Not consistent enough for me to stick with something like that and I don't want to set myself up to fail. I want this to work.

I'm going to have to give more thought to what I want for my next birthday year and how I can work towards that.

Last year my birthday resolutions were:

I am opening myself up for a new & positive journey in my career path.

I am opening myself up to receive love in a healthy & strong romantic relationship.

I will continue to make better choices for myself to find health & peace physically & emotionally.

I will surround myself with healthy, positive people to continue to bring that into my life.

I think I really have worked hard and progressed well on all four. Work had several ups and downs, but right after my birthday, my job changed and that has continued to grow and improve, while I've been staying at this company.

It took me a while as far as dating. I had one relationship, short lived, that didn't work, but I am grateful for it. I really learned so much from it, from him, and from the relationship in general. That relationship really helped me understand more of what I wanted and what is important to me. From all I learned, I was in a much better place and so much more ready when I met my boyfriend. This is such a great relationship for me. I am so happy with him and he is such a great person.

I have made great choices for my health- on all levels. I am in the best shape of my life. I have cleared up some pending health concerns I had and continue to work on this. My emotional health is great. I am so much more secure, confident and just happier in general. Ups and downs continue to happen and I've had MANY of them in the past few months. With my company lay off, the sexual harassment itself, my cats health, my cousin's death, the sexual harassment thing being reported and the aftermath of it, my bank account being hacked... that all has been in the past 3 months! But I've managed it and come out of it ok.

As far as the people I choose to have in my life... I really consider myself lucky. I have amazing friends who are just so incredible. They are happy, fun, positive, supportive, encouraging and just have such an amazing energy. I feel so lucky to have them all in my life. And since making that decision, to have healthy positive people in my life, I continue to bring in more and more of it.

There are so many people and so many situations you cannot control. But when it comes to what you can control, what situations you make a decision on and what people you can decide to let into your life, why would you want to CHOOSE to be in a situation or around a person that makes you feel bad? I don't want to feel bad about myself. I don't want to feel down. I don't want that. I want to be lifted up. I want to laugh and have fun and be happy and positive. I know life isn't all roses, but I want more good than bad. When I feel like I'm in situations or around people where this is no longer the case and it isn't getting better, I need distance or I need to not put myself in those situations anymore.

For next year, I want to keep some of this, but tweak it a bit. Those were really good birthday intentions! :)

I cut something out of magazine this weekend. Self, I think. It said:
FIND YOUR EDGE:
No one who has achieved greatness got there by following an easy path laid out by others. She did it by creating her own vision and striving to achieve, then surpass it. Now that the lazy days of summer are behind you, it's time to renew your focus. Think about what you want to accomplish, set a goal, and take a step toward it every day. you are standing on the brink of something spectacular.

I want to use that to come up with my 37th birthday resolutions. That's why I want daily goals. Something small that I can do each day to bring me closer to reaching and achieving the goals I set to accomplish. Now I just need the goal!