exhaustion...

After my conference, I went back to work this week with grandiose ideas that I would not get stressed or overwork myself...  yeah, that so didn't work...  I had to dive right back in with both feet and hope that I didn't get swept away by rip currents or drown in the undertow.  All I can do is keep trying to keep moving and continue to do the best I can on any given day.  Even though I tried, I found myself getting more and more exhausted each day.

One of the things I'm still struggling with is one of the people who works in my building who seems determined to find faults in how I'm doing things, point those things out to my staff and then tries to find reasons to have the staff bond with him instead of me.  I have been trying to counteract this but it is something I struggle with - I want to come across as genuine but because I don't have a "bubbly personality," I don't know if it comes across as fake or not.  My fear is that I am coming across as fake and that's definitely something that I need to figure out...

Something that was positive from the past week at work is we received our official word from our national accreditation agency and the results for our building were expedited (which means we had no findings and nothing that they wanted us to explain more before they gave us our results).  This was news that I was definitely excited about since it was my first accreditation and expedited results are rare.  With all of the long hours and hard work I put into this process I was definitely glad to receive this news.  I have actually had someone that I met at the conference contact me this past week for assistance on this process since his building will be going through it before too long so it feels good to be able to pass the knowledge along to him and his staff.

This weekend was filled with dancing so I am feeling sore tonight.  Yesterday we danced/walked in a parade that was about a mile long and then we danced a 15 minute set.  For whatever reason, the parade kept starting/stopping so we ended up dancing for quite some time along the parade route (and I was one of the dancers who opted to walk it).  When we got to the stage performance, the stage looked nice and smooth so another dancer and I kicked off our shoes -- BIG mistake!  The stage was so hot I knew kicking my shoes off was a bad idea about 15 seconds into the 15 minute set but there was nothing I could do about it at that point.  The gig today was at the Fair (on of our biggest gigs of the year) and we had an hour long gig - I danced all except the few other solos people had, including my own sword solo.  My sword cooperated today and it stayed put and I think I did pretty well; I picked up my sword a little sooner than I usually do but I was able to improvise with it so it worked out.  The sun was really beating down so when we were done on-stage, I treated myself to a cup of gelato (yum, yum, yum!).

Because the weekend was so busy, I am so glad to have tomorrow off of work.  I still haven't fully caught up from being at my week-long conference (I still have some laundry to catch up on - ugh) so I'll be doing that tomorrow as well as grocery shopping and all of that fun stuff.  I brought home a relatively new work manual so I might take a look through at it tomorrow but I haven't decided yet.  I may let it wait until Tuesday and look at it at work since I have a long work day (we have a staff meeting Tuesday night after work) - we'll see where I end up...

Well my dear readers, I think I'm going to bring this to a close for tonight.  I hope you have a muchness filled week and can do things for you.  Thank you for joining me along my quest!  =)