One of the things that I know fuels my soul is going whale watching. Yesterday I had an amazing trip out whale watching and I am so glad that Mom pushed me to go. As I was leaving the house, I remembered the binoculars that my parents bought me for Christmas a couple of years ago that I hadn't used yet so I grabbed those as I walked out the door. As we were waiting for the boat to pull away from the dock, a sea otter popped up, opened his sea food on his belly, inhaled it, and then disappeared under the water again. Once we began our voyage, we saw a pair of minke whale (looked like an adult and calf) which was amazing in and of itself because they usually avoid boats.
As we got out further into the ocean, we began to see blows (the bursts of water from the whale blowhole). I usually see them before anyone else and Mom pointed out when I was talking to her today that I might see them since I work with kids and I am constantly looking for things out of the ordinary with a sharp eye. We ended up spotting a group of humpback whales and a few of them just kept getting closer and closer to the boat. It was AMAZING! There were two or three humpbacks that were very curious and they kept going under the boat and coming up on either side. I ended up getting some pretty neat videos/photos and I finally ended up putting my phone away to just enjoy the experience. Right after I put my phone away, a whale's head popped up right by the boat and I might have missed it because I had been taking photos of the whales further out. This is one of the photos I captured:
After having the amazing opportunity I did yesterday whale watching, I took myself to one of my favorite hole in the wall restaurants and ate a homemade caramel crepe with homemade whipped cream. It was pure wonderful decadent deliciousness. I know it was WAY too many calories for one meal but I really didn't care. Yesterday was all about recharging the batteries before what tomorrow begins...
Tomorrow starts eight weeks of summer programming at work. The schedule has been created, programming is in place, and field trips are ready to go (still waiting on some parents to turn in signed permission slips but if I don't get them, their kids can't and won't go). On the other hand, I'm short staffed, we're preparing for major inspections and I'm not sure how I'm going to bring it all together so I'm more than a little stressed. I know that what is going to happen is going to happen regardless of planning or my stress levels but that doesn't necessarily help calm me down any...
One of the words I'm trying to embrace is delegate. Rather than just trying to pick up their slack or take on their responsibilities to help take things off of their plates, I need to learn to stop adding to my own workload just to make their work lives easier. I know that I have a tendency to rush in and help when I should sit back and let my staff take care of their responsibilities. While it might be difficult and it may be a struggle, I do need to let the staff take care of what they need to take care of so I can accomplish my own job. We'll see how well that goes over...
On that note, my dear readers, I am going to bring this for a close for the night. I should probably get a decent night sleep since it looks like I'm probably going to be pulling a 12 hour work day tomorrow. Maybe I'll look through my whale watching photos/videos before going to bed to help fuel my soul and make sure the batteries are filled before the alarm goes off very early tomorrow morning. I wish you the best along your own personal journey to fuel your own souls; thanks for joining me for another week! =)
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