The travel gods were not with me on the flights back at the end of my vacation. It started with delay after delay at the first airport which caused me to have to change my other flights due to connections I would miss. The flights got changed but the connection option left me running for flights in two different airports (and I don't run...). On the plus side, I did have a fun interaction with a flight attendant on one of the flights. As we were boarding the plane, he commented on my carry on bag. I told him that I bought it because I liked it and thought it was cute (and I smiled/shrugged as I said it). He told me that made his day and he was going to bring me a free upgraded drink. I kind of laughed it off and went to walk to my seat. He told me he wasn't kidding and asked me my seat number. I told him and didn't think he was serious. After the drink service went through, he came from first class (where he'd been working) to check on me. He asked me if I got my "happy drink" and I told him I hadn't yet. When he asked me why not, I told him that I wanted a chance to smile for him again and thank him. He brought me a drink and came back to check on me a few minutes later. I thought that was very cool of him and it wasn't necessary for him to do.
Another thing that is kind of cool that happened, happened yesterday. I went to dance rehearsal in the AM and we had a performance in the early afternoon (and I had another solo gig in the evening) and I overheard a comment while I was onstage. We were doing one of the group dances and there was a man and a woman by the stage - the woman was trying to point out one or two of the other dances and he said, "No! I'm watching the one with a mohawk!" (I am the only dancer in the troupe with spiky hair so I knew he meant me!!) Overhearing that comment really made me excited and feel good! I feel that hearing this made my solo both at this show and at the evening show better. My dance solo is filled with attitude and hearing that he wanted to watch me over some of the other dancers on stage just made me want to give that much more during my performance. During my evening performance, the crowd was great and they really seemed to enjoy my solo so that made me feel really accomplished as well.
I am going to try and find a way to hold onto that feeling so that I can work on feeling comfortable with myself. I'm not 100% sure what I need to do/where I need to go in order to make that happen but I'm committing to working on it once again. Even if it's a simple as wearing a fun pair of earrings, a cute top or fun shoes to work, I'm going to do something each day to help make me more comfortable in showing the real me. I might have to do more than one of those things tomorrow when I have to go back to work after two weeks of vacation.
In going back to work tomorrow, I'm going to try hard and remember something my Mom told me - don't throw yourself so much back into work that you forget that you've been on vacation. I have a tendency to throw myself back into things after vacation and I know that's not necessarily good for me. Because I can be perfectionistic, just diving back into work has a tendency to burn me out. Since I don't have a vacation scheduled for quite some time, burn-out would not be a good thing. Maybe I just have to get better at taking random vacation days (even if it's just a day off in the middle of the work week) so I don't find myself so overwhelmed going back to work after a vacation.
Well, since I have to back to work tomorrow and I have a few things left to wrap up, I should probably bring this to a close for the evening. I hope you find something to be comfortably you each day this week (and everyday for that matter!). Let those freak flags fly, my dear readers! =)
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