| | I've always been a workaholic. I get fidgety when I cannot work and bored when I'm home sick (like now). (Unfortunately for my husband, I don't include cleaning under the same category.)
So here I am, sitting at home trying to rest from a nasty cold/laryngitis/at-least-it's-not-the-swine-flu but I keep checking email and thinking about work. There's so much on my plate right now that I cannot imagine anything functioning w/o me (which is silly, of course). It also means MORE work when I return to the office, so I am trying to [long pause to cough my lungs up] reduce the catch-up game.
I am currently [longer pause to check work email] working too much, but this seems to be the case at all points in my life. I want to go forward, and it seems that to do this I need to overload myself.
I just got back from a 4-day conference in NYC and it was great but also frustrating. I could barely talk and hence network. I was sworn in as a division administrator and had my second board meeting ever. I tried hard to have a fun Halloween in the city, but pouring rain and lack of energy added up to a 10:30pm bedtime watching bad television at the Marriott in Times Square.
When I got into the train station, back home after 5 days, Clover didn't want to look at me at first, and once she warmed up she didn't want to let go. She is getting so big and chatty, and keeps learning new Portuguese words (água, cabelo), in addition to the dozens of English words. She is trying to put sentences together. She sing-songs the sentence ("I don't like it" and "I don't want to" are big ones) w/o really knowing each word - she goes by the sound. She is also an amazing dancer and very musical. She plays on her wood piano and on daddy's drums and actually sounds good. I am getting very close to wanting to start on a new kid, as much work and craziness and financial doom I know it would cause.
October flew by, as predicted. Hopefully November will be a bit slower and allow me to live more and work just a tad less (not likely, but it doesn't hurt to dream). I am going to commit, right now and right here, to upping my exercise regime and losing some of those baby pounds. And to keep up this blog.
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