Angela's Blog

Hi.

Wow! Today was a great day! I'm up to working five hours M, W, F so today was a work day. I went to a great yoga class, as usual, and then headed into work. I had a really good meeting with my boss today wherein he assured me that even with a reduced speed on my lab work I am still a valuable employee. That is so nice to hear because I used to totally find my worth at my job through the insane amount of lab work I did. Now I know that it is not so much volume of work completed but also quality of work done. And it was GREAT today in the lab. Jimmy let me try sampling some of his tanks and I could totally do it! Hooray! It wasn't even all that hard. I'm not as quick as I used to be but I am 100% capable! I was pretty freaked about that. I wasn't sure I was going to be able to handle tanks any more. But now that I know I can run them I am much more at ease in general. Now I know that I can still be a worker bee in the lab. I was pretty afraid that I wouldn't be able to run tanks any more and then I was worried that I would no longer be an asset at work. But now I know that I can still do it, just less of it. Which really means just a more reasonable amount of it. WOO HOO!!! If that is not success, I don't know what is!

And it has been really nice getting to see my niece and nephew too. They are visiting from Alaska and I've gotten to spend a little time with them. We played Wii yesterday and we're making jam tomorrow and hopefully going swimming. And my niece was so nice today and went to the doctor with me and held my hand when I had to get a shot. What a gem!

I guess there's just one other piece of news that hits today out of the park - SoBo is on the way! Go Rach!

And yesterday went well too. Yesterday I had my qEEG. It was okay. Lots of goo on my head, but the lady said she got a good reading. In about three weeks I'll get a report about what was discovered. We'll see. But at least the groundwork has been laid for the neurofeedback. I'm really excited to start that!

And I finally got my butt in gear and went to gym at home yesterday too. It was really good. I was on the assmaster for 30 minutes at level 3. Pretty good for me! I have to say it was a pretty good feeling to be working hard enough that you can actually tell that you're not only sweating but you can feel drips of sweat running down your back. That is just solid confirmation that you're having a good workout. You are not wasting your time at the gym.

That's about all I've got.

I start 6 hours a day at work on Monday so that should be interesting. And I'm up for sampling all of Jimmy's tanks since he doesn't work Mondays. That should be really good. Now that I know that it's possible I'm not freaked out about it at all.

Talk at ya soon.

Ang