Today turned out to be a pretty good day… after spending all day Sunday doing things other than what I needed to be doing. I hadn’t checked my notes on Sunday a.m. about pending stuff that needs to get done, and Monday a.m. was the first I remembered a lot of it.
Ugh.
Oh well.
That’s what I get, when I don’t check my notes. The things I needed to do would have taken maybe an hour or two, but now I have to find time in my work week to do them, which will probably take substantially longer, since I get worn out pretty quickly by the 9-to-5.
Today, I had a pretty structured day, and I got a lot done. The beauty part was, I figured out how to cut some of my losses and rearrange my schedule so I could get the most out of it.
I got caught up in personal stuff this a.m., when I was supposed to be getting ready for work, and by the time I got on the road, I knew I was cutting it close to get to my 10:00 a.m. meeting. Traffic was flowing, though, so I figured it would work out.
Then I hit heavy traffic, and everything slowed to a crawl… so, I called my boss, told them I wasn’t going to make the meeting, and I gave them my status over the phone. I knew I had a lot to get done… and I had this other pressing errand I needed to do today — no exceptions! So, I took a little detour and ran the errand before I went into the office, so I would have the end of the day to get my work done.
I usually start to wake up around 3:30 in the afternoon, anyway, so it makes sense that I should be spending that time on the last-minute fixes for this deadline, instead of packing up and heading out to take care of that errand.
Long story short, I got my boring-but-essential chores and my important tasks done, all in good order. And I had a nice big block of time at the end of the day to really focus my full attention on the most important things on my list.
And I’m feeling really good tonight — like I’m in the flow… in a groove. Now, for a nice dinner and some reading, and getting to bed at a civilized hour.
Woo hoo.
It’s the little things, y’know?
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July 1, 2009 at 8:15 am
Beth
Good for you. My June 30 did not turn out so good, but it certainly had a good start. I headed out the door for work ten minutes early and had little traffic driving to the gas station. After filling up, my car wouldn’t start. An hour and a half later, the tow truck took the car to the dealership for a $300+ fix. I drove home from the dealership because I’d missed most of the work day and decided to log on from home and work as much as I could.
Then a terrible thunderstorm hit and knocked out the electricity. My husband and I decided to go to another part of town before any more storming came our way. My car wouldn’t start. In the early days of my brain injury it would have put me in bed with a migraine. Today, however, I just vented some of that famous brain injury anger…and the folks at the car dealership will be glad that I vented BEFORE seeing them again.
July 2, 2009 at 11:40 am
brokenbrilliant
Ugh – what a day. On the other hand, what a blessing that we live in a world now where we can login from home and get some work done. What in that past might have been a catastrophic loss — a day of work, with the boss p-o’ed that we didn’t make it in, and one more vacation day gone, baby, gone — we can now get our work done at different times and different places. I know it’s saved me a bunch of times, when things went south. Sounds like the issue was with the car, not with you, so it sounds like everyone managed their piece of things fairly well — with the possible exception of the dealership. And the thunderstorms.
You do what you can, I suppose…