PIC OF THE DAY!
Photo prompt=WATER. There’s a reason they call it the Cloud Forest. This is from my trip to Costa Rica last year. Went on a hike…in the wet, rainy clouds. It was very cool.
TODAY…
1. Feel really good today, and for that, I’m thankful.
2. Thankful to catch up with two old friends/colleagues this week. Who knows what might come out of those meetings?
3. Thankful that it infinally feels like winter…sort of thankful, anyway.
4. Thankful for the positivity that keeps coming my way.
5. Thankful for long, hot, steamy showers.
Hello!
Not sure why, but I’m spooning peanut butter down my throat. I was so hungry after my loser workout, and I’m probably not going to eat until very late tonight. I have a “non-date”, as CC calls it, for a wine tasting and dinner at one of his friend’s house.
He tells me that he hasn’t introduced anyone to his friends. Anyone as in, anyone that he’s been dating since the divorce. Seriously, could it be that I’m the first adequate person he’s dated? And I don’t mean that in a self-depreciating or otherwise negative way. I mean, could it be that I’m the first person he’s wanted to introduce to his friends?
I’m not sure that’s coming out right. I’m not sure what I’m saying. Maybe I’m the only woman he’s dated who’s not a stripper or super slutty. Heh!
I shouldn’t read anything into it. In fact, he still calls our meet-ups “non-dates” because I think he still thinks that I’m in friend territory–even after the make-out sesh. And that’s fine by me. Because I’m now vacillating. I’m not 100% sure about anything, so I guess it’s best that neither one of us thinks that this is truly a date.
I guess time will tell. I think tonight should be very interesting. I have no idea what I’m going to wear, but I’m going to have to figure it out quickly because I need to get ready as soon as I post this entry.
In other semi-sexual news: I went to yoga again last night. Yoga Man put the moves on me again. I know. I’m not shocked. But this time it was so similar to the movie clip I’d posted a week ago that I couldn’t help but laugh! I was in that pelvic tilt kind of position and we (students) were thrusting our hips into the air when all of a sudden, Yoga Man comes up from behind me and pushes my upper thighs down really HARD so that I would have to use all of my energy to get my hips back up into the air. Very, very awkward and quite dirty…especially since the lights were pretty much all out except for a little glow from the outside twinkling lights and the hallway.
I’m not 100% sure what to do about his extremely touchy methods because I really love the workout that I get and then the stretching after feels sooooo good. I mean, it feels like I’ve had the best massage ever when I’m done with that class. I feel like a new woman afterwards.
I’m going to keep going. If it gets too weird then I’ll quit, but I think I can handle it. We’ll see.
Had lunch yesterday with a long-lost former colleague. It was wonderful to see her, and she hadn’t changed a BIT…even with the birth of two more babies (twins) since I’d seen her last. I don’t know how she does it, except for the fact that she is extremely no-nonsense when it comes to business. She gets her stuff done and she does it very well, and then she’s home to her family at 5pm. This is rare in my industry, but she succeeds this way.
I always thought she was super rigid, but I get it now. We used to work together waaaay back in the day at [former company], before I left and came back. Before my last fucked-up position. It was still kind of f’ed up simply because that’s the nature of the business.
Anyway, we used to work together and sometimes she would drive me crazy with her rigid ways, but I always let her know and we always figured out ways to work very well together. We’ve both since moved on and she now has a very powerful position for a company that you’d know.
Do you know what she told me yesterday? She said that she’s always thought very fondly of me because I was her only friend at that job. And it made me almost tear up because I looked back and thought, yeah…it was sometimes a sucky job, but we worked well together and I was a very good working partner (as was she).
She said that everyone else at that company was only thrilled to watch others stumble and fall. You know, you think you’re all out there working for the good of the company, but that’s not the case at all. It’s every man/woman for themselves (especially THERE–my old company). It’s so nasty and cutthroat that when you find someone you can truly be friends with, it’s unique and almost strange.
Sometimes you just don’t think like that. You know, the friendship and all. I’d forgotten what good friends we became in that job. I’m glad she reminded me.
We’re going to get together again soon. I just have to squeeze those twin baby boys and the big ‘un too (three boys!).
And today I had coffee with Gary, another long, lost colleague. I’d connected him with the woman I’m trying to get a consulting gig with and we met to brainstorm on how we can tag-team this company with our separate areas of expertise. The owner of the company is coming to town and bringing her factory manager, and I’ve asked Gary to let me come to the meeting and show her my capabilities because she still has yet to pull the trigger on my gig.
I’m hoping that we can work together on a couple of projects. He has another product line he’s working on as well. We can both use each other for leverage. Man, it’s not easy pulling yourself off the ground, so if we can swing this into a partnership it could be great! My only concern is that Gary is very…well….kinda schlocky. Like, old school salesman. And that bugs me for various reasons I don’t have time to get into right now. But if we can parlay this into something, I don’t think that will have any bearings on MY business. I hope not anyway. We’ll see.
Okay. Need to get off the computer and start thinking about something beautiful to wear to CC’s dinner party.
Love, hopes, and dreams!!
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