- After 2 nights of poor sleep, awake 10pm-12am, 11pm-1am, I am happy to report that I am over with jet lag. For the past two nights, I’ve slept 8-5am. On those two days that I woke up, Sofia also was awake at that time and we enjoyed some quiet reading time while Cookie was our “guardian”. Unfortunately daddy and Lizzy are still dealing with jet lag. Not fun but getting there.
2. Lizzy turned 8 on Thursday! It was an uneventful birthday. Although I’ve found the cutest cupcakes to bring to her friends at school, she woke up with headache and fever. She stayed at home and only went to school before the end of the day to “celebrate” her birthday. She was over with fever the next day. Quick recovery. Her real birthday celebration will happen this Sunday with two of her closest friends. I am so glad she doesn’t want a big party, I have no bandwidth to organize it.
3. Work has been busy. I am so far dealing with it ok. I try to delegate as much as I can, ask for help/favor, to lessen the load and stress. I really don’t want to work on weekends nor over time. A colleague friend sent me a position in India and asked me to apply. My response? I love running to much to want a promotion! hahaha
4. Next race plan: Perth Half marathon Oct 2024, Full Marathon April 2025. Perth half fits well because it’s close (4 hrs flight) to Jakarta, no jet lag required, it’s during kids school break, new location that we want to visit, and training for a half can still improve my fitness while not as taxing as a full marathon.
5. Meal planning: next week we will go back to full schedule (swimming practices and all) and work is looking packed. So I’ll doing meal prep this weekend: apple cake, bolognese sauce, beef curry, pumpkin and lentil curry. I enjoy meal prepping as it’s quite soothing active meditation.
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Happy birthday Lizzy! How I wish I could eat one of those cupcakes!
I love a moving meditation too, and find that kitchen jobs can be very meditative.
It’s so interesting with work – if you want work/ life balance, then often promotions can be out of reach – it feels like the expectation is to just work all the time! Before my husband retired, he would be always working on the weekend, evenings, etc. Once he had a meeting scheduled for 10:00 on Easter morning. WHAT THE WHAT. Anyway, it’s tricky, isn’t it?
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It is good to be honest with yourself about what you want out of your career. I think the expectation is that we are always chasing the next promotion but it’s not the case for all of us. Like I never desired to manage people. I just want to be an individual contributor. I do manage someone now but in interviews I told them I did not aspire to be a manager and wanted to hire someone that I would more so mentor and help grow to be my partner. And I lucked out and got someone who doesn’t require any real day to day micromanagement. I get a feeling that I am going to be asked to manage more people and I have super mixed feelings about it, mostly negative ones. But we will see how the year unfolds. I have zero capacity right now to take on anything more.
Love the cupcakes but hate that Lizzy was sick on her birthday. That is the worst! Paul had a stomach bug on his 4th birthday. I don’t think we will ever forget that birthday since it was so terrible!!
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LOL I’m sorry but I think Cookie is planning to kill someone. A bad joke, but her face expression is so funny! Love that whole picture.
Cupcakes are not cupcakes but works of art, really. May I have one? 😉 Poor kiddo, sick for her birthday ❤
I sometimes think if I were to transition into a school leadership position, that would be SO MUCH MORE work. And, no.
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