all in a days work........

This morning when the alarm rang at 4:30 AM, I knew that no matter how hard I wanted to cover up and snuggle back in.... the shower was calling my name, and I needed to be on the road by 5:30, heading to my kitchen to make breakfast for my clients. I abhor the hours I keep sometimes, as they are not normal... but then there are days when I have the best hours in the world.

By 9:30 AM, I was already headed back to my office (home) after delivering two breakfasts, running to the bank and stopping by the post office. Day over, right? Well, not really, now I have to spend the rest of the day sitting by the phone, checking e-mail, and looking through the list of chores to see what can be accomplished early for some future jobs. It's all a matter of perspective and looking at the larger picture, than it is to pick a few random over-worked days to complain about. Some days are so quiet, that I can stay home and man the phone in my jammies; others have me going across town two or three times to prep and deliver food. Somehow, it all seems to equal out, though.

Usually I try to run my errands so that they coincide with areas that I will be in (except my *jammie* days), and I feel that I bring new meaning to the phrase "multi-tasking". While running here, there and everywhere, I also have to manage the phone remotely. This means that I need to check messages left on voice mail in my spare time between deliveries, or even answer my cell phone on the road, as my cell number is at the end of my VM message for the office. It amazes me what some clients will and will not consider an emergency when they call me on my cell. But that's ok, that's my job to coach them through.... while being ever so careful to keep my eyes on the road at the same time.

The days I do get to stay home (even though I am technically working; jammies or not) I am on the computer. I have become fascinated by all the neat and cool things I have right at my fingertips. If I want to look up anything, the web supplies me with all the resources I need to get the information. I have become hooked.... much to the surprise of everyone I know. So much so that I really have to pull myself away from the computer even if I've been in front of it for hours on end. I wasn't like this six months ago, until I started blogging. Now I sit chained, going from one new friend to another... checking back to see any new responses, while surfing around to come up with something new to talk about myself. Oy! The whirlwind involved... but so addicting at the same time!

I've always been the type of person to clear my desk at the end of a shift, even if that shift is 18 hours long. I like a clean slate to work with, and rarely leave anything for the next day.... if I don't have to. Lately my daily list has included blogging. I don't feel pressured into posting every day, but I do find that I need my regular fixes of reading as soon as I get near the computer. With everything else I do, "blog fixes" rejuvinate me, as well as keep me in touch with some of the nicest people I've ever spoken to. I may be exhausted by the end of the work day, but I always make it to the blogs to get my daily dose of reading and learning, laughs and giggles. Since I don't trust my brain to always come up with a response, after a long day, I'll save that for when I can think better.... or at least make cohesive sentences. No matter what, I always read. To me, it's all in a days work.

post script~ I've been experiencing problems with blogger lately, but not sure if everyone else is too. When I try to get to my favorite reads, I am hit with a big *403 FORBIDDEN* from blogger. A few days back, I was having problems uploading a picture onto my own site, then spell check went out. It seems that one problem after another keeps popping up, then fixes itself, then re-appears again. Hmmmmm.... I'm still a novice to this, but I'm at a loss to figure out if it's something I'm doing wrong, or is blogger just being stubborn. (I did run Norton, just to be sure I didn't have a virus.)

So I will apologize in advance if you run across mis-spellings or any other funny stuff I didn't catch before posting this.... as well as apologize to my favorites for not getting onto their sites to leave comments. It's not that I haven't been trying... it's just it's been added to my "new things to fix" as part of todays work.