23 February 2025

Sunday Post/Sunday Salon - February 23, 2025: Early Motivation/Ideas

I'm not sure if it's an actual drawback or benefit to my work schedule, but it's a lil after 5am on Sunday morning, and I'm wide awake. My alarm goes off for work Monday - Friday (and sometimes Saturday) at 4:20am, so even on the days I do fall back to sleep, I usually wake up by 4:30 to go potty (welcome to middle age?). Anyway. Today I woke up, went back to bed, and laid there with my eyes wide open. So I slipped next door to my home office, turned on the space heater, grabbed my vitamins and Red Bull, and decided to get something done. Welcome to my burst of productivity!

This morning I'm once again  joining with Caffeinated Reviewer's Sunday Post, and Readerbuzz's Sunday Salon. Random aside, these ladies are on point. I come and go, but they're both here, posted every week (and plenty in  between!). While I've been blogging quite a long time, they're here regularly for these weekly posts and much, much more. Kudos on a job well done!

What I'm reading this week:

I'm almost up to the last quarter of Little Women - and LOVING it! On my kindle, I'm on the second half of Better Left Unsent by Lia Louis. I love their casual writing style with unique, contemporary stories. This one is a possible 'glitch' (or potential intentional sabotage?) that sends all of the emails from Millie's drafts folder. See, Millie has been writing honest and emotional emails - without ever meaning to send  them - and leaving them in her drafts folder. Overnight, during a server malfunction, they all get sent. To the whole company, to her family, to her friends....everywhere! Ugh! Four stars so far, but I mostly want to find out if it was really a glitch...

Three Good Things:

  1. Last week (Monday/Tuesday with my kids) was as awesome as expected. Daughter and her friend got their prom dresses, son has finished the only Fortnite Lego set he didn't have before last week, and I'm on the last bag of my Money Tree from Lego. I was also delighted to realize on Tuesday night that I was happier than I'd been in a while and didn't even think about work for at least those two days.
  2. Winter has GOT to be ending soon, right? I'm completely over the cold, and especially the anxiety over driving in fresh snow - repeatedly!
  3. I scheduled another week off early this summer to be the 'official' adult on my daughter's college orientation! Participating adults have to be paid for, so while our whole family is going up there, I'm the one going with the college kid. She is actually scheduled to stay in the dorm, but then the other three of us will stay at a hotel or whatever and be able to explore campus and the town as well. Can't wait!
Three Goals for this week/month/whatever:
  1. Part of why I wasn't falling back to sleep was worrying about my volunteer fundraising goal with the local theatre boosters. For whatever reason, I'm having a hard time getting businesses to respond/commit with our regular dine-to-donate fundraisers (even restaurants who have participated previously!). So I'm going to pick a few dates and keep trying with a different place for each so I can get some booked. We also do Kroger (register your shopper card and they donate), a local graphic design shop for spirit wear, and a Amazon wish list to get things we need instead of buying. I think I'm finally going to start using my blog Facebook page to post these things, as well as a bunch of different dine to donates in the community, and other theatre performances in our part of the state. I've been meaning to do this for a long time.
  2. My office got a lil progress last week. Before my super fun days with the kids on Monday and Tuesday, I was pretty much snowed in on Saturday and Sunday. So both days I spent a lil time sorting out trash, and hanging up some stuff in the closet. While I missed the concert I had a ticket for on Sunday, hubby did take us out for dinner to celebrate our anniversary on Saturday night. So I suppose the 'goal' portion here is to keep going!
  3. This week at work I start training a new team member. I'm going to try and talk less/smile more, in general. I plan to tell/show them what they need to know, but try to be positive about it and try to conceal everything I hate about being there every day. LOL If I can teach them to actually complete the investigation summary, that will be one less thing to hate, right? Hahahaha


12 comments:

thathappyreader said...

After years of getting up at 5:30 for work my body just naturally gets up at that time in retirement - regardless of what time I go to bed. I hope you have a great week ahead!

Aj @ Read All The Things! said...

OMG, I can relate to hiding everything I hate while training new employees. We had so many people quit last summer. Even when I'm positive, they quickly discover all the stupid crap. :)

shelleyrae @ book'd out said...

Happy Anniversary 🥂
Good luck with your goals, choosing to be positive can’t hurt

Wishing you a great reading week

Sarah Erwin said...

I'm with you -- winter has to be ending soon!!!

Olivia Beck said...

Better Left Unsent sounds intriguing, but in a completely horrific way. Ha! Lots of good things going on with your daughter doing college orientation this summer, the end of winter (yes, I’m hoping too!), and the realization that you were feeling happy. Sometimes, I think we feel happy and forget to notice. Does that make sense?

Yvonne said...

I hate those days when I wake up early and can't go back to sleep. One of my cats wakes me up every morning at around 5 am and I can't get back to sleep. I end up reading, but that's worse because I get involved in the book and don't want to put it down. I hope you have a great week and good luck with the training.

Deb Nance at Readerbuzz said...

Thank you for the shout-out for our weekend blogging memes. I do try to faithfully post Sunday Salon, but several times I've left off the linky (!) and I've been notified by wonderful bloggers in time to add it and repost! It's a lovely book blogging community.

Your fundraising goals and plan-of-action sound good. I also like seeing your good things. It makes me feel good to hear about your good things.

Nicky said...

I loved Little Women so much when I read it as a kid! Now I wonder if I should reread. Hmm!

Cindy said...

Sounds like you made the most of being snowed in and had a great beginning to the week. I hope you are over whatever bug you got, and have a great week!

Northwoman said...

Glad you got the snow days and fun days with your kids.

Anne - Books of My Heart This is my Sunday Post

Rachel @Waves of Fiction said...

One more month of winter! Hopefully, the snow melts for you before then. Sounds like you've been getting a lot done despite the bad weather. I applaud you! I can't imagine having a situation like described in Better Left Unsent! What a great premise, though! Have a wonderful week, Becki!

Marg said...

Good luck with your fundraising and training your new team member!

Have a great week.