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December 21, 2008
Snow
Snow, snow and more snow. That's it really... all there is to say. SNOW. I'm snowed in. In fact, I'm totally stressed that my flight isn't going to leave Seattle tomorrow and I won't be able to get the heck out of dodge.
The end of this trip really signifies something much bigger than coming home from another trip. It's the next stage in this horrifically indescribable period of my life... I have no idea what this stage looks like or feels like but it is here and I'm crossing the bridge as I come to it.
I did 3 "briefings" in one day this week. I became sick the night before. Head cold...scratchy throat. Was up all night the night before the briefing coughing, slept not at all. I was super stressed about doing it even though the presentations were virtual - meaning the customer and account team wasn't going to be in the room, instead we'd use our own technologies to bridge the geography. This turned out to be great because I was able to do the presentations from home and gear myself up for 7 hours of talking. I lined up the water, the tea, cough drops... preparation. I was very tired at the end but I am happy that my voice made it through all but the last 15 minutes. Adrenaline is an amazing drug.
Most of our offices were closed on Thursday. The snow had come down overnight and there was just no way to drive anywhere. I literally stayed shut in for a day. When I left Friday and got in the car to drive somewhere, I nearly hit a Lexus within 50 feet of the house.
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December 12, 2008
I Keep Getting The Same Answer
I really like Facebook. I'm late to the game, an old-timer... some of my friends, like fellow diva Erica, they've been doing this social networking thing forever. It's totally the buzz. I talk about enterprise social networks all day. Facebook has a much fuzzier and much stricter set of rules about what I will reveal about my personal life although I'm not exactly sure why, much of it is here and a simple search will reveal it. It's cool, Facebook has it's place and only the most insane of interested parties keeps reading here ;-) The thing I don't get about Facebook though is all the little apps... throwing snowballs and giving drinks. They confuse me.
Isn't it funny when you ponder a question over and over, sometimes for years, and you still come up with the same answer? I kinda feel like that over a few things right now. Like maybe the universe is knocking really hard on my head. Hello, am I in there?
With the drive from Seattle to San Diego, I had nowhere to practice or a mat with me. I left all of my yoga things up there for now. I'm torn about my yoga mat. The thing with not having a mat up in Seattle is that it means it counts as a carry-on when I fly, which means I always have to check a bag, which means a very annoying and long wait on both ends. I wonder if I can rent yoga mat space somewhere ;-) Actually I think maybe there are lockers in our new building... I'm gonna have to check that out!
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December 11, 2008
Silence
When I sit down to think about blogging right now I'm just met with utter silence. Oh sure, I can come up with the stories, they are all right there. I sit and tell them to myself and then I think about writing it down and I think no way...
In more mundane matters, I drove from Seattle to San Diego (with a stop in Temecula to drop off the dirt bike my father purchased for The Son). The trip was long but... well, I don't really know how to describe it to myself or to the Blogosphere so I won't attempt to... but it was good. We stopped in Shasta on the way down and had a couple beers at the Billy Goat. When I'm near Shasta I feel a magical energy. It's truly an amazing thing.
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