Results (But it is a Secret) in Everyday Ramblings

Whoa. How did it get to be Friday already? I like the shapes in this picture I took a few days ago.

First my work phone (it still isn’t working) and now my beloved personal laptop is acting wonky. I noticed it yesterday. I had to switch everything over to Chrome from Safari. I can’t even get Safari to open anymore on my MacBook Pro. I wonder if like Comcast they changed some settings to make it more difficult for Google products to talk to Mac products? Ughh. I have a Dell PC for work, my Mac laptop and an Android phone…

Princess Noko would like stable access across platforms please. :)

My laptop is almost 4 years old. Maybe it is time to buy an iPad (with a keyboard)?

I had to buy a new activity monitor last night because the battery on my year old one is taking forever to recharge, a half hour at a time that it is not recording my activity. Wish me luck getting it set up properly. At least it was on sale. These Weight Watchers monitors are pretty basic compared to the Fitbit monitors but also a lot less expensive and in my case very effective.

I was 18 years old when I last weighed what I do now. I assure you I am eating and not too skinny. I love it! I have been at my goal weight now for six months. I wish this feeling for everyone who would like to weigh less. To experience the empowerment of being at a healthy weight and I mean that literally. I am powering up the big hill (small mountain) behind my place with a joyful ease these days.

Breathing easily and deeply, all the yoga, the evidence of all those years of yoga when I was bigger is visibly evident.

My theory is… do what you can right this moment. Don't wait for the right moment.

It will pay off in health and wellbeing even if you can't see any tangible benefits now.

The weight loss has helped with my confidence level though.

I was in a meeting with the whole crew that reports to our director the other day and all the Managers share their team's accomplishments and what their staff is doing during these monthly meetings.

Saint Joe and I are working very hard to roll out this new technology and are highly visible outside our department to the whole community in a way we never had been before. As I have mentioned the trainings are exhausting but very rewarding. (We had a lively one, yesterday afternoon). No one said a word about any of this during the meeting including my newish take no prisoners’ boss.

So because I have nothing to lose (they already wrote the horrid letter to my file last summer and called me in from telecommuting) I spoke up. This technology affects most everyone in the room (as we are planning on adapting it to other areas of work process) so I spoke up to say that we were getting truly positive feedback at our trainings. We are like lost orphans; no one represents us or really pays much attention other than grumbly mostly mean stuff.

So after I said my few sentences about how enthusiastic the response was and how folks were looking forward to more along the same lines, the director said to everyone’s surprise, “Oh yeah, well you actually won the Going Above and Beyond Expectations award for February for this work but we didn't say anything and we didn't have any nominations for March and…”

This from the person who came very close to killing my project after we had spent a lot of money developing it, and she had no faith in it and was quite fearful about rolling it out and we had to jump through a whole bunch of hoops to reassure her that it would work and not make her department look bad. And she took action to get me fired because she was annoyed that I was pushing so hard to follow through on it and being whiney and annoying and self-contained.

I asked my take no prisoners’ boss a few days later, what is that about??? Did I really win the award and if I did would there possibly be something in writing someday that said I did and we started joking about how yes, shhh, I did win the award but it is a secret… Saint Joe did confirm when we were off site that he found it all very strange as well.

I told him that if he ever won the award his secret was safe with me...

After all this hard work, both with Weight Watchers and at work, in spite of obstacles, and some pretty sturdy roadblocks it is a wondrous thing to see results.

For the first time in my life I actually have some visible muscle definition in my upper arms and am looking forward to wearing sleeveless tanks this summer.

Very very cool. Now I need to stop my prideful swooning and get my darn taxes done.