Week In Review 2019-02-10

This, being my first formal weekly review of 2019, is unfortunately lame because of the friggin’ snow that ended life as we know it in Western Washington. Having spent years in the midwest - flat and with regular snow and infrastructure to deal with it - I am always surprised/astonished/some other not quite believing emotion that snow and ice can completely upend life here. It isn’t that PNW folks are lazy or incompetent. Rather, it is that PNW is super hilly, the snow/rain mixes make an icy disaster, and the infrequency of occurrence makes investing in snow removal infrastructure totally inefficient. Alas, I’ll still inventory the week (Sun - Sat) and see how I’m doing.

Week in three words

Ice, Drama, Start

Inventory

I did keep track of several points of my GHDR and general life-stasis in my Journal. Looks pretty good.

• Health
  • Meditate - every day!
  • Intentional walks - 6 of 7 days!
  • Run/Swim/Gym - Ack, I missed my planned run and swim this week.
  • Kickboxing - 1 of 3…in my defense, I could only make the 1
  • Happy Food - Yass! I did have a little sugar and a little dairy, but not much. I feel better when I eat less. Weird.
• Connections
  • Friends - Got in friend time with Trivia Night
  • Family - Game night - we played Jenga
• Money
  • Tracked my spending - I spent $817.94 this week - the majority of which was - $377 dog vet costs and $353.02 groceries
• Curiosity
  • Bass - 0 practice. duh duh duh
  • German practice - every day!
  • Drawing and Coloring - I let myself be sucked into an effort to draw a “cute” opossum on the whiteboard at work. Super challenged by my lack of thinking that opossum are cute. I pulled it off. It’s like I’m an artist or something.

Things I did but not on my tracker!

I mostly did mundane life stuff, but not doing those things would be kind of like failing at adulthood, so I am going to celebrate. Sadly, setting up my GHDR for the year, which feels like a big deal was last week, so I can’t claim it.

• Calmly survived a power outage at work that resulted in instant dark during a meeting. We hung around in our dark offices for about an hour waiting for power to come back before they sent us home.
• Participated in trivia night and even had a few answers, but I was party to the erroneous selection of Midsummer Night’s Dream for Desdemona’s play…when she was in Othello… so, I’m not sure if this is really a plus. Also, we named our team I-C-U-P, because we are 12, apparently, but the announcer was on to us and just said “icup”. booo
• Took The Amazing Cupcake to her specialty eye test. That sounds kind of lame, but it was an adventure and we had to take a ferry. It was her first ferry ride, followed a few hours later by her second ferry ride. At the doctor, she was perfect and everyone loved her, of course. That does not change the fact that she is always sick. Poor puppy has some kind of auto-immune disorder that causes the lining of her eyes to swell. So, she is getting fancy compounded medicine from a lab in New Jersey.
• Built a roadmap to growth for Gifts Done. I’m hoping to have stable enough income from Gifts Done to hire two part time staff and actually support them by the end of the year. Back of the envelope says that I need to have a regular flow of about 1,200 gifts per month before I can jump on this.
• Played in the snow. Sledding, snow angels, snow running, oh my!

Things I did not do that I planned to do or wanted to do

Sometimes, things don’t happen quite right.

• I’m not real sure how to put this here. Someone contacted me about possibly being a good fit for their company (that I had never heard of, but sounded interesting). But then, after I filled out their questionnaire, they said they really did not have anything for me, which made me feel sad. Of course, I was thinking, I’ll show them and get a bunch of other job offers - side note, I have a job - but looking at all of the remote dev job boards did not make me feel better. Although I make real apps and websites now, I did not feel qualified for any dev job. Lame. I feel like such an imposter doing exactly what it is that I want to do. I need to let this go.
• Kickboxing 3 times. I missed one class for Cupcake’s eye appointment and one for snow, so technically it wasn’t my fault…but I know I need to maintain my momentum or I will stop.
• Get started on my Book Club book. This month, we are reading Girl Wash Your Face. Only, I haven’t bought the book yet, and I’m about 70th on the hold list at the library, so I am a little behind. I know I will read it before our book club meeting, but I planned to get it this week.

Thoughts and feelings

This year, I’m focused on Health, Connections, Money, and Curiosity. Within that, I have some items that I am tracking. I rocked most of my everyday goals. :smile: :rocket: I am happy about that.

Um, I also looked back at my first weekly review last year, and I was way more impressive in 2018. It is not even funny. Last year this week, I was publishing apps and launching businesses. This week, I am celebrating the accomplishments of getting to work and drawing foxes. Different times peoples.

BIGGEST DEAL I secretly (when you are, like, CEO of your business, everything you do feels like a secret mission) planned out promotions for the year for Gifts Done, including our first podcast advertisements and our first in person events! Holy cow. Stuff like this makes me nervous.

Last thoughts. Even with winter weather and setbacks, I feel good about where I am and where I am going - except for that whole lack of confidence/imposter syndrome thing (that does not feel good).