Back to the grind...

By Alicia

Ashley, I hope you are feeling better! It sounds like a whopper of a cold you've got there! Keep drinking those fluids!

After spending about a week of recovery from my little detox experiment (which left me with clearer thinking but incredibly tired), I started back to work. Yes, I still have my writing business, but I made a huge discovery recently: I like the writing more than the business. Not that I don't have business, it's just I don't like aggressively going after new business. Nor do I like the plain old business stuff there is to running a business.

So, I've started temping at a company here in town. I am on my second week and it has been grueling.  I am learning an entirely new process in a part of business that I've never been in before. The work is not hard, but the environment is more than hectic, less than frantic, but not always. You hit the ground running at 7:00 am and don't stop unless you really, really have to pee. Lunch is grabbed and eaten at the desk. After that,  you keep running until 3:00.

The best way to describe what I do is this: imagine walking into a paper blizzard and being told that you have to guide each snowflake into its proper place before it hits the ground. It's something like that. Careful not to make a mistake , however, because it can have some international repercussions. There were a few ruffled feathers at the Canadian-U.S. border today because I had trouble figuring out my math while faxing papers on the fly.

I've been up at 4:00 or 4:15 am each morning, but unfortunately, not to work out. It's just me getting used to the work schedule again. Interestingly, I've found out that if I don't work out in the morning, I am totally spent by the time 3:00 rolls around. It still doesn't make any sense to me, but it must be the same adage as money: it takes money to make money; the same hold true for energy. It takes energy to make energy.

With that in mind, I will be arriving at the Wellness Center tomorrow morning to start walking again. I just can't keep spending my evenings watching reruns of "Charmed" and ignoring the dinner dishes while I languish on the couch. The lack of exercise and new job equal a huge energy drain. I got to plug the leak somehow, or I will officially become a twice-baked couch potato in no time!