Challenge 39: Mop floors, do laundry, clean office

February 20, 2010

I just got back from a walk with Coach and it's the first morning one we've done in awhile. I've had such a busy couple of weeks that my routine with walking him got thrown off. But today, I remembered how nice it is to walk with him first thing in the morning. The air feels nice, the exercise is nice, the bonding with him is nice. It just felt good. And I now feel more motivated to get my day started and get stuff done. Funny how that happens. At noon, I have a lunch planned with some coaches from my school. Pizza at Lanesplitter, down the road. I'm looking forward to it. It's a result of me starting a meetup group for coaches on meetup.com. First event from that group. Then after that I have some work to do for my boss, but the rest of the day is open. I'm going to try to get the house organized, clean my office, and mop the floors.

Lately I've been feeling a little worried about job security. I love coaching and I love the process of certification, but I worry about the future. How will I make enough money? How will I get insured? Have savings? Pay for kids' college? etc. I tend to think way into the future and then get kind of stressed, so I'm trying to find a balance to putting things into place now that will set me up for the future, but at the same time, not jumping too far ahead and trying to trust what I'm doing. It's hard though. I think about going back to get my MA almost everyday.

Yesterday was a good day but also kind of hard. I think I've just been feeling off this week and kind of sensitive, so the smallest things upset me. For example, yesterday we had to take the car into the shop. It was hard for us to find a time that would work for both of us but we finally found one and made an appointment with a mechanic who we got a referral from. So we showed up for our appointment, and they had no idea who we were or why we were there. The guy who booked my appointment was out of the building and the two guys that were there did not speak one word of english. Normally, this would just be really annoying and really frustrating, but yesterday, to me, it just seemed like the last frustrating straw for my week. We got the guy who booked my appointment on the phone, and he still seemed pretty clueless as to what was going on and told me to leave the car there. I felt like if they were this weird and shady and disorganized to just handle booking appointments, then I didn't really trust them to be good with my car. So we left. And I cried.

But luckily the day turned around. Me and Vaughn and my parents walked around my neighborhood, had an amazing lunch, window shopped at some great stores and bought a couple creative things at the creative reuse store. We came home, ordered sushi and watched the Olympics.

So today, I wanted to get some exercise but I already did that with walking the dog.

Challenge 39: Mop floors, do laundry, clean office

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