Just got back from Pensacola and the traffic was so-o-o heavy from P'cola to Mobile with all the beach bums (Mandy, etc.) heading home. It took 2 hours to get from P'cola to Mobile and that is normally an hour trip.The good news is we made it safely (hope so for Mandy and family, too) and had a good long weekend. My mom is getting back to her old self and is no longer dizzy and her face is only slightly green/yellow from the fall and not the horrible black and blue of 2 weeks ago.
Last night my older son played chef and grilled a seafood trio of sea scallops, shrimp, and speckled trout fresh from the popular Joe Patti's market...so delicious. Also served grilled corn on the cob, sauteed asparagus with garlic, and roasted red skin potatoes. Of course, watermelon for dessert. I did overeat at this meal, but did pretty well the rest of the weekend. As for my 10 miles I only got a 5 mile run in. At this point I can't make that up, so I will resume my training tomorrow as scheduled.
Work is getting crazy again...new computers that we will have to use to present information to our physician customers...the company has invested a lot of money for the Tablet PC's and software so we are feeling lots of pressure to quickly become proficient in their use. We have a huge manual and CD's to complete, a test to take to become partially "certified", a trip to Birmingham to practice with our district manager and then fly to Los Angeles to demonstrate our proficiency to all the upper management to complete our certification. I call that "overkill", excessive, unnecessary, but someone whose head is on the block for these, wants to make sure we don't miss a beat when we are in front of our customers. The "real rub" is that we are supposed to do all this "after" our day in the field while keeping a normal call activity level and do all this training on our own time. Yes, I am complaining because I want my extra time to be spent training for my marathon. No, I am not paid to run a marathon and yes, I am paid to do my job, so there, I will have to find a way to do both! Hope everyone had a good ten miler on Saturday!
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Sounds like a lot of work! Don't you hate it when your work gets in the way of the things you really want to do? I do!!
The question about my x rated blog -My surgery took care of that for four weeks. Will let you know after that! LOL
Jana
YUCK. Doesn't retirement sound better and better. After two weeks off it was damn difficult today to get in the swing of things. Of course, with the "do more with less" but "work smarter not harder" mentality these days, it doesn't take long at all for all the good vacation vibes to melt away and be replaced by WORK STRESS!
I will either retire in April of 08 or Jan of 09 -- depends on how aggrevated I get between now and April. (and in what the retirement advisor has to say when we see him in a couple of weeks)!
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