Right Here
We have officially begun Day 3 of a very unexpected I don’t care what the forecast said Snow Day! And consequently the last day of the week and the one I pushed everything off to because of course a silly snowstorm on Wednesday couldn’t possibly shut down this midwest city for that long. I managed to hand shovel my 40 foot driveway Wednesday night so… let’s quit messing around and get back to business people! I know you’re probably thinking I sound a bit out of character this morning, a bit stressed shall we call it. You’d be right, and honestly my anxiety has been just as high these last few days as it did during March 2020.
As I type this standing at my bathroom vanity and clinging onto any amount of focus I have with the help of Experience by Ludovico, Seven has just barged in singing Surface Pressure - fitting I suppose - and apparently has decided to experiment with lighting design as she explores the possibility of the light switch in the room
I’ve gotten rather creative to find the little pockets of productivity but it still leaves my mind feeling stretched more often than not. One life saver that I now swear was compiling a “Master List”. A spreadsheet where I can see everything that I am responsible for in one place. With beautiful color blocking, I know that I am doing precisely what I need to do in that moment, and can relax knowing everything else has a place. I can be fully invested and not worrying about what I am not doing.
While it doesn’t mean that everything is executed flawlessly, I can more easily tell that if I do groceries on Monday I will have more uninterrupted time working out the layout of a client’s bathroom Tuesday, and if I write all the newsletter’s for the month Friday, I will have all next week to work on the proposal to the city. My life seems to be the perfect example of butterfly effect because I also just paused the 25 minute timer for this entry to negotiate what show would be played for yours truly but now, I can see those effects, and that brings a bit of sanity to the chaos in my mind.
Leslie Tyler Design 2022
Today was the earliest of mornings as it is a delivery day for a client. What was scheduled on Wednesday got pushed to today, and at sometime between 8 and noon I will have to jump in the car and make a mad dash which will actually be a slow crawl because snow over to my client’s to meet them. Because of this impending fire alarm I needed to have myself and Seven ready to walk out the door at 8 am, and have been looking for small projects to fill the time, that will inevitably come at 11:55 am or has the potential to be later than that because snow.
This weekend will be a working weekend, because this week didn’t seem to be. Although, I could argue the “boundaries” line and one could easily point to me saying that weekends are my sacred time, the truth is, my job is downright fun. And honestly, if I have to work a Saturday please let it be picking out slabs and faucets for clients, am I right?!?