10 minute update...
Ok, I literally have ten minutes before I have to run to the next thing. I did want to at least post what I've been doing that's been keeping me so busy,though.
Work stuff:
I had a review of my requirements document in March, and I've been working on updating it with the comments and action items. I got close, but the Mission Requirements Document was just released last week, so I've been frantically trying to get mine linked to it before sending mine out to be signed. Oh, and it was due on the 19th. Yup. It's late. Yikes.
In the meantime, two of the TIMED operations people took off for a conference in Germany for a week. Bob and I held the fort, but barely. So glad they're back! (yet another reason the document didn't get finished)
Church stuff:
I was asked to be on the Committee for the upcoming Stake Enrichment Activity (where the women's organization in my church (Relief Society) gets together and does something. The theme was service, and I volunteered for the Quilting Committee. We're making quilts for the Soldiers at Walter Reed Hospital (see my link to the side on soldier quilts). The activity was May 10, we managed to finish 5 out of 51 quilts. They're passed out four times a year, Memorial Day, Independance Day, Veteran's Day, and Christmas. So we have two upcoming opportunities to get them finished. Many women took them home and are working on them there. We should have about 15 ready for Memorial Day, and the rest for Independance Day. But that has taken up a lot of evenings and some weekends as we prepared the 'quilt kits' and then started working on them. Even now I have one at home waiting to have the binding finished (and this is not doing my carpal tunnel syndrome any good At All!!). But the thought of the soldiers who will be recieving the quilts has me saying, "how could I not?"
Then of course, there's the myraid of meetings and activities for the Single Adults program that I'm supposed to be running *with help*. We had a great activity at the end of April--we went to see the Metropolitan Opera simlucast at the United Artists' Theater on Snowden River Parkway. It was fabulous. Seriously. Unfortunately it was so packed we didn't even know how many people came from our group. Only about five of us met up for dinner afterwards, but there could have been more. The guy who suggested it thought it was a failure, but I don't. We can't base our success or failure on how many people show up, but rather by whether or not the people who came found value in the activity. Otherwise everything we do would have to be considered a failure.
Ok, ten minutes is up. I'll post another time about all the personal stuff that's been going on. When I haven't been doing work or church...
Work stuff:
I had a review of my requirements document in March, and I've been working on updating it with the comments and action items. I got close, but the Mission Requirements Document was just released last week, so I've been frantically trying to get mine linked to it before sending mine out to be signed. Oh, and it was due on the 19th. Yup. It's late. Yikes.
In the meantime, two of the TIMED operations people took off for a conference in Germany for a week. Bob and I held the fort, but barely. So glad they're back! (yet another reason the document didn't get finished)
Church stuff:
I was asked to be on the Committee for the upcoming Stake Enrichment Activity (where the women's organization in my church (Relief Society) gets together and does something. The theme was service, and I volunteered for the Quilting Committee. We're making quilts for the Soldiers at Walter Reed Hospital (see my link to the side on soldier quilts). The activity was May 10, we managed to finish 5 out of 51 quilts. They're passed out four times a year, Memorial Day, Independance Day, Veteran's Day, and Christmas. So we have two upcoming opportunities to get them finished. Many women took them home and are working on them there. We should have about 15 ready for Memorial Day, and the rest for Independance Day. But that has taken up a lot of evenings and some weekends as we prepared the 'quilt kits' and then started working on them. Even now I have one at home waiting to have the binding finished (and this is not doing my carpal tunnel syndrome any good At All!!). But the thought of the soldiers who will be recieving the quilts has me saying, "how could I not?"
Then of course, there's the myraid of meetings and activities for the Single Adults program that I'm supposed to be running *with help*. We had a great activity at the end of April--we went to see the Metropolitan Opera simlucast at the United Artists' Theater on Snowden River Parkway. It was fabulous. Seriously. Unfortunately it was so packed we didn't even know how many people came from our group. Only about five of us met up for dinner afterwards, but there could have been more. The guy who suggested it thought it was a failure, but I don't. We can't base our success or failure on how many people show up, but rather by whether or not the people who came found value in the activity. Otherwise everything we do would have to be considered a failure.
Ok, ten minutes is up. I'll post another time about all the personal stuff that's been going on. When I haven't been doing work or church...