This week's stress

Unfortunately I cannot find time to update my blog due to real life deadlines. This coming Friday I'll be teaching a class at a company training day. I volunteered for it. Little did I realise that it won't be as easy as I expected. I spent my entire vacation in Israel reading the book on the topic. Then I spent the past two weeks, since I returned, working on the presentation. Half hour a day is all I could get in with my busy schedule and on some days I couldn't work on it at all.

This weekend I put in 18 hours on the presentation. I think I wasted all of Saturday on trying to figure out something idiotic about charts in MS Excel. Eventually I gave up and asked the question online. Thankfully, someone responded by this morning. I no longer felt an idiot after reading his reply. I would have never reached the answer on my own. Now I have to go back and fix all the charts in my presentation. Oh joy.

Last night as I reached 80% completion of my presentation I made my husband sit and listen to it. Mid-way through it I realised I pretty much neglected the most important part of the presentation - the definition.

I'm hoping everyone who's taking my class signed up for it because they had nothing better to do with their time, so no matter what I teach it'll be an improvement on their other choices.

My husband left for Las Vegas early this morning (Jeep thing) for the entire week. I inserted an envelope with some gambling money in his suitcase, just because I haven't done something nice for him in ages. My hairdresser told me that I should tell him that if he wins any money he has to share. He didn't seem as thrilled with this concept. Not sure why.

As I went to bed last night I realised he had put on his alarm clock for 3:45am but forgot to change the time on his clock. I wasn't too eager to wake up at 2:45am, so I changed it for him. This morning I found out he wasn't the only one who forgot to change his clock. When I got in to work at my usual 7am early morning time, all the parking spots were taken as if it were past 8am. It was rather obvious that in a government facility - 80% of those parked are there by mistake and not dedicated employees who arrive at 7am.

After waking up at 3:45 with my husband I'm totally wiped out and can't focus on finishing my presentation.

I learned back in college by a very beloved professor - if your project sucks, make it look professional. Tomorrow is my day for making it look professional. I'm done with the "this sucks" aspect.

I'm at a point of considering adding some nude photos into my presentation just to wake up everyone and maybe even get a glowing evaluation from everyone. But then again, that's going to be a feat considering I know of at least one born again Christian taking my class who won't be thrilled about this development. Of course it doesn't help that he's my boss.

Happy Haloween to those among you who celebrate!