ammogirl

I’m in the midst of planning this conference for work and oh my god why is it so difficult?  It’s been the focus of my entire work day for the last week or so.  Agendas.  Attendees.  Yesterday I stayed an hour late to add the finishing touches to a MAP.  Ugh.  Tomorrow my entire focus is finding a large-capacity coffee pot and pricing out continental breakfast offerings.  

On the upside, I’m so busy the days are flying by.  Which is always good.

In fact, I’m pretty much completely booked through the 15th of July–next week is the conference, then I have a one-day business trip (providing some training) on Thursday.  Friday we have off.  The following Monday I’m going back on the road for ANOTHER training trip, this time for three days.  The next week after that, MORE training, but this time people are traveling here to recieve it.  And then!  We leave for the cruise, and don’t get back until the 10th of July.  Phew!  

I’ve been waking up a little earlier and doing my cardio in the morning and it’s awesome to have the solitude of a forest path and sunrise.  I get my best thinking done on a run, and this morning I was thinking about how I try so hard to be the best wife, and mother, and employee, and student, that everything else falls by the wayside.  I just don’t have time for anything else–in fact, I really don’t have time to do all of THOSE things.  If I’m focusing on being an extra good mom I don’t have time for school.  If I focus on school I have to shut everything else out.  In the meantime the house is dirty and there’s no food in the fridge.  Don’t get me wrong, I’m actually not complaining about the state of things, it’s just sometimes I wonder why I feel so overwhelmed and exhausted, and then I realize, oh.  THAT’S why.  I try to give 100% or more at everything I do, but it’s hard when your mind is constantly focused on what ELSE needs to be done.

Sigh.  Pity party for one, table over here.

In other, less depressing news, we have a three-day weekend next week (12 – 14) and we’re going to Strasbourg, France.  While there, we are going to MONKEY MOUNTAIN, to which I say: monkies!  (…wait.  Monkies?  Or monkeys.  It’s monkeys, isn’t it?  Why is our language so hard!?)  And then, we are going to EAGLE PARK!  Granted, maybe not as exciting as monkeys, plus the added risk of falling poop (ALSO a risk with monkeys.  Hmm.) but still exciting!

(hold on, I have to switch laundry)

(oh crap, I forgot to throw another load in.  be right back)

Anyway, we’re also going to spend a day in the actual city, which is supposed to be pretty awesome in itself.  I’ll take pictures, and hopefully I can figure out the whole flickr upload problem so I can load them to the site without delay.  It’s funny, because we’re totally doing the “Oh my god we’ve lived in Europe for 2.5 years and HAVEN’T GONE ANYWHERE” (not really true, we’ve gone to Switzerland, and Austria, and the UK, and Italy, and John’s been to France and Belgium, and we’ve traveled around Germany, AND gone to the Canary Islands) but still we’re in panic, all “WHAT ARE WE DOING NEXT?” and “WHERE CAN WE GO FOR CHEAP?”

The answer to that last question is “nowhere” because anything beyond a day trip requires hotel rooms and hotel rooms are certainly not cheap. But it’s okay!  We’ll ravage the girls college funds!

Just kidding.  Wow.  Another thing I just realized is that if I don’t do my full workout in the morning, i.e. the strength portion?  I’m not going to do it.  Clearly.

Tschuss!!