TGIF

This week has been really tough. It started out with me coming off of two back-to-back trips. I love to travel but too often I wear myself out doing it. Then I jumped into strategic meetings with my new team at work. It was overwhelming and exhausting. Overwhelming because I've got a lot of work to do and I'm not entirely sure I can do it all. Though I keep reminding myself that if it wasn't work, no one would pay me to do it. If it were easy, they wouldn't pay very much. Even though I question whether or not I'm able to do this work, I trust that I'll figure it out. People much smarter than me believe that I can do it so I should believe it too.

In addition to thinking really hard, I've been playing pretty hard too. My team has been going out to dinner this week. I've heard fantastic stories about people's education, careers, marriages, and children. It's so exciting and fun to get to know the personal side of coworkers. I especially loved hearing stories about how many of my team members met their spouses. One coworker asked his wife to marry him after they had dated only 20 days! 20 days! They've been married for 20+ years. Another coworker met her husband at a Halloween party. Another at a work event halfway across the world. It's these kind of stories that puts everything in perspective.

So the week has been very hard and very fun at the same time. I'm now ready for the weekend to relax, slow my thinking down, and get my house picked up. Thank goodness we have a five day work week because anything more would kill me.