Gettin back to work
Good morning. This is me. It’s 8 am now. We’ve been at work for about an hour. Theresa did good in grabbing us right away at 7 right about the time we got to our office before getting too settled. She asked us if we were busy and we said sure. Brandi had stopped by for a second, but she was on the way out … it had been light chat. The meeting lasted about 45 minutes … we’ll go into that in a moment, but in general – we’re here and we’ve already set up the next set of Qnotes.We did pretty good last night before we left we had completed both sets of Qnotes that we’d set as a goal … It took us til about 5:40 pm. That serves us right for starting so late. We had to rewrite the notes so that’s the big time consumer … we’ll have to do the same with the notes we got in front of us this morning. It was easier after we got started. We were very glad we’d had taken good notes while we were with the client. That helped immensely. It will be the same today J
We won’t spend so much time writing today hopefully. Trying to think we can get stuff done. Our goal is to do the one meeting at 10:30 am, and then get the next set of 9 notes done that will complete what we owe Candice. She might want more, but that will be all that we owe her. I don’t remember how we know that, but I’m pretty sure that’s it. Probably should check though. Maybe later?
I am just starting to warm up. Lately, I’ve been wearing one of the two light jackets (nice sweatshirt type-things) over my “it’s all I got clothes.” But, today I forgot and I’m wearing a short sleeve dress. So, I looked around again searching for a solution unconsciously and came up with the blanket I’ve got on the back of my chair … I never use it – forgotten about it actually … it’s just a lap warmer kind. But right now over my shoulders and arms it’s feeling like about a jillion bucks WOOHOO! I think the blue and purple are good matchers too hehehe.
There is some snow on the ground from overnight and it seems a chill in the air. Wow! Brandi just came in saying the same thing – I heard her say, “It’s cold out there!” Shoot! You know why – looked at the AOL thermometer and it says it is 16 degrees out there … man-o-man … that is cold. No wonder we’ve got the chills. The part of the building I am in is like a 9 foot peninsula - three sides are exposed to an outside wall and the fourth is part of an extension off the main building. Only the inner wall has windows facing the inner court and that wall is 2/3rds window. It’s beautiful - Even if cold.
Hmm. Candice was just in. She seems to be in a good mood. She just had a few moments before her choir practice. I think the poor girl wanted to eat the breakfast she’d brought in, but there wasn’t enough time. Hey! Maybe WE SHOULD EAT IT!!! I know, I know … probably not a good idea. BUT, it sounded like good stuff! I think that’s not a good way to make office friends though, hmm? I know …
Ok, anything else to report? Pretty much not much. We stayed until a little late … went home and ate the leftover dinner and a small salad – no fixins. Then we messed around and didn’t accomplish much. After we started falling asleep at the computer we went into the kitchen took our medicine and went to bed … there wasn’t even a fudgsicle in the house and we weren’t in the mood for a Popsicle. We called Rich right before we laid down and then we took the phone to bed with us … he called back within a couple of minutes. But, we don’t remember the conversation. I think he said he’d be home in like 15 minutes, but we were pretty asleep by the time he got there. I think I remember him trying to get the phone out of our hand and telling us we had to put on the mask. He would have given us our kisses, right?
*Sigh* That be our Rich!
This morning we woke up happy. We got up before the clock at 4:15 am, but then went back to bed until it rang. We did some computer stuff – entered an entry, read it, thought about it and such. We took a shower 15 minutes early at 5:15 am. I liked that time a lot – not for writing, but for moving everything a long. It seems its been taking us about 28 minutes to shower, cream, and dress. That gives us time to wake Sweetie and still get a clear half an hour before we leave to do medicine, eat our yogurt, drink coffee and chat. Oh sure, that’s plenty. There’s really not a lot of chatting, because Rich is waking up. Hehehe about 5 minutes to we say … ok, this is it 5 minutes. Is there anything you need to say? Where are you going to be today? There’s a little more … today we needed to make sure that he was going to have a good day with his daughter, because he was going to go with her and his older son to a map display … That should be especially important. They are going to meet at 10 am.
The last part of our routine is almost always about the same. I say this is about it. Then I go put on my coat and if I’m doing real good, I will button it up and reach for my gloves. Then I reach for my bag which is packed with three things – now four. It’s got my medical stuff in a large manila envelope, it’s got my purse with camera, pda, phone, flash drive, etc, and its got lunch/snack stuff. Right now it’s also got the recorder thing for voice … I’m being tantalized again into using it for something or another. It just makes sense to do something with it … Just thinking I might want the voice electronic, but I need to be trying it out.
Oh yeah .. we don’t have money … forgot … ok, next agenda item?
Anyway … after we have the bag in hand, we reach for keys. By this time honey bunny is getting up to give us our kisses. We open the door so we can scoot out, but before we leave there is always a nice kiss on the lips, two kisses on the top of our head, and a short hug, a few nice things are said like “be careful,” or “walk slowly now, don’t rush.” You know that sort of thing. And, then we are off. We go slowly down the stairs, unlock out the door, unlock the door with the remote, and then pull ourselves in the car.
We’ve been trying very hard to let the car heat up. It usually means we can tolerate up to 7-8 minutes. We still like leaving on even numbers – usually on 5’s and 10’s. It’s hard for us to stay the whole time. Usually the warm-up light goes off as we are merging on to 171 (First Avenue) from 47th Street. By the time we’re pulling out though the windows are in good shape. It is rare we will drive with messed up windows. We’re in a phase again where we are not listening to music on the way in. We really like the drive. It is a thing of beauty.
Today on the drive in we were thinking of how grown up we were to be going to work all by ourselves. And, how nice it was that we were going to a place that we enjoy. The thoughts don’t get much more complex than this. I usually don’t think too much of work while driving. I don’t know how much I even think of anything concrete, even about Rich. I sorta let thoughts happen to me. I don’t try to direct them. I like to watch what is around me and how things move like what cars are doing and how I can get around them or on some days how I can just flow or move so smoothly with traffic while feeling fluent with the universe. I know strange, hmm? It’s just that I love my time driving … because maybe that it’s so pressureless. It’s like being a runner or a skier, but you are in good shape so it doesn’t even hurt … just moving through the obstacles – doing it with character.
It was funny when I got in today … I had a choice of the top 5 spots … I was so excited I could spit! I took the first place spot! I pulled in easy first time – maybe taking up a little too much room, but Sister was watching, because Brandi had just walked in – wow coming in with the pros! I reached for my bagged and then marveled at not having to be sundered by anything like coffee and cane … wow – how lightweight I’d become .. it made me sprite! Yup, that was the word Sister used when I came in as she commented to Brandi. “Did you notice how “Spritely” she’s become? Yup, yup! That’s me – I told Brandy once more when we got in the back – do you know that’s how I used to be? Underneath all this weight I’m a very bouncy person.
Wow Keep coming back to that … all the time commenting on my bouncy grandchild. I’d forgotten how bouncy I used to be. I sure do want a little of that back again. Not so much that I’m jumping on furniture again, but enough so that I’m fluently moving down halls and passageways.
Ok, it’s time for an appraisal. It’s 9 am. That’s the first marker of the day … Do you remember this game girls? What are we doing when? Seems that we’ve not forgotten it, but we’ve been trying to avoid it. Do you think you could give it a shot? We can come back here anytime you think you really need the support, but why don’t we try doing something with my support over on the other desk? How will you know I’m here with you? Good question. Let’s think about that. Let’s do a small experiment. Why don’t you go over to other desk just for a second and come right back let’s see what happens. Ok? Go.
Ok, that wasn’t too bad. The desk appeared pretty big, right? I know you saw the papers on the desk. And, you started thinking you needed to figure out what to do with them. Those are all good signs if you go over there again and start looking at the papers on at a time, I think what happens is that parts start figuring out for you what has to happen with those papers. You just have to sit back and watch, or participate to the level that your comfortable. Above all you need to remember that we are still going to be over here just over your shoulder, K? Just one more thing. We’re going to minimize the screen to keep things a little more private are you ready for that yet?
Ok deep breath. Let’s just take a minute to look around the office from this position – all the way around to the door and the desk.
Ok … voices… go ahead … you can do it!
posted by Ann Marie @ 1/16/2008 04:54:00 AM
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