it was a long week

Although it was a long week full of the typical work stresses and anxieties and the busy days I'm sitting here on Saturday morning, survived, with a nice cup of tea, my two dogs and a nice quiet house. I just finished the crossword puzzle and am about to get into my book but first i thought i would put a few words down on the blog so i can look back and remember what i was doing someday.

This is strategy season at work so we're all busy trying to determine how we can make ourselves relevant to the company's new business strategy. The company recently came out with a 3 year plan to get ourselves to a stronger position and they set out some significant activities to make it happen. It seems that the work my group does falls squarely into at least on of those activities so now i have to make sure we have a robust enough mission to ensure that i get funding for myself and all my people. I think it will not be an issue but there is, of course, the stress that it will.

So i live in Powerpoint land., My boss is an expert in communications and I am not so it often takes several rounds of reviewing slides with him before i get it right. He's a busy guy so I want to have as few rounds as possible.

Anyway, after a week at it I think i'm pretty close so next week should be better.

The kids have their school stuff going on and their extra-curricular things. Oona was out of school two days this week with some sort of cold that I also seem to be coming down with. So far Dylan and Maureen seem fine but they're usually the ones that get sickest so I'm not sure we're out of the woods yet.

This weekend will be devoted to getting ready for Thanksgiving and an Eagle Scout Ceremony. I love
the Eagle Ceremonies so I'll take some pictures and do a post about it.