Good Intentions

I had the best intentions today. I am so far behind in my consultation work. Teachers have been diligent in sending in their work and I've be negligent in reading it all. Technically I don't have a time-limit to review the work, but I really don't want thousands of activities to read come August when the course finishes. And it's helpful if I tell them if they do something wrong before they move on to the next activity. So I got up today and came into my office (my boss' office, but she lets me have a desk when I come in) so I'd have no distractions. I actually worked well from 10:30 until now, and was definitely into the groove. Our Tech support guy just came to tell me the server will be down for a while because he has to install some updates. "How long?" I meekly ask. "Anywhere from 5 minutes to the rest of the day!" UGH. It's been 5 minutes. Not a good sign. I haven't been blogging much because I feel guilty if I do this fun stuff when my work awaits me. While the job is wonderful because I can set my own schedule it's also awful because I can set my own schedule. I tend to procrastinate. Hubby would be great at this kind of job. He'd set a schedule and he'd stick to it. We went to college together. He had his research papers done a week ahead (gave himself time encase an emergency came up). I rarely slept the night before something was due as I was up completing it! Somehow we live together happily. Actually we've rubbed off on each other. I'm better than I use to be at setting and keeping work schedules and he's a little less compulsive.

I've had a great week. Last Saturday, the Singer's 16th Birthday party was a huge success and I got loads of "words of affirmation" [From Gary Smalley's "5 Love Languages" a great book for anyone involved in any kind of relationship] which is my primary love language. The Singer's friends were appropriately impressed with all I'd done for the party. A few asked if they could hire me out to do their parties. I really love doing this kind of thing and to get affirmation out of it, too is wonderful for me. [I really am a sucker for praise. If you compliment me (sincerely), I'll do an awful lot for you.] All the girls were so nice. They can come to my house anytime. I'm pretty blessed to have good kids who for the most part have made good choices in the friend department.

This past weekend was the Imp's dance recital. She takes Hip Hop. Between getting dressed (make-up and hair and all) and having to be at the performance hall early, we spent about 15 hours on the recital this weekend. I'm glad it's over. But I really enjoy watching her dance. She has a natural ability in that department.