#403 - A Good Day's Work

I woke at nine and made my way to my home office desk.

My morning was free of meetings, and I was able to just get to work. I prepared for a meting by rewatching two Leicas. We were doing a double meeting today to cover the two episodes. This was a follow up meeting, and I generally have little to add after the first pass. I still wanted to refresh myself after having been away for a week. I find it is helpful to read through any of the new comments and see if it affects my department or sparks any new concerns.

After I did my due diligence, I got back to doing approvals and revisions. There were a few requests from other departments that I handled as well. All par for the course.

At lunch, my plan was to finish collecting the leaves and to mow the backyard. But I felt the compulsion to get a few other tasks done around the bedroom and office. I still had to unpack my bag from the cottage. Clothes needed put away and toiletries rehomed from my dope bag to their places in drawers and cupboards.

And that was easy enough to accomplish. I felt there were some shirts in my closet that I would never wear, and I decided to pull them out and donate them. Next, I have a drawer full of shorts and swim trunks in my Chester drawers. I had removed them and put them on the floor to make room for all my winter pants. They’d been sitting there since before we left for the cottage. If I was going to get one thing done this week it was moving these into the closet and putting them up on a high shelf out of the way.

Boy, did it feel great to do that!

I dusted the bedroom with a Swiffer and then continued moving items to their original spots, weather that be the office, a closet, a drawer or even the kitchen and basement. Things have a way of wandering into my office and bedroom over time.

Now I had my side table, my dresser drawers and the credenza with the television all cleared off and dusted. Next, I cleaned the upright floor fan that we run most nights. The dust bunnies were collecting on there as well. I have an air cleaner tucked in the corner beside my dresser, but it’s been shut off. It’s supposed to run on a timer while we are working. I turned it back on to help clean the air.

There were some old pillows in the closet, and I wondered why we bothered keeping them. They had to go as well. One of them was an old body pillow we both had that we used to use behind our backs when watching tv in bed. But we have new triangle shaped pillows that replaced them, and mine was the shoved in the corner beside my bedside table. That went into the bin as well.

It was time to get back to work.

I did approvals and revisions until about 2pm. I had a three o’clock meeting to go over two more episodes of the show and I wanted a bit more prep time to look over the precious meetings notes and to look at any new designs that had come in since then.

By three I was more than ready for the meeting and mostly I was able to sit back and listen. For me the heavy lifting is done in the meeting before this one. We were able to get through two episodes in hour, which was good because a bunch if us had four o’clock meetings to get to as well.

I signed off and immediately joined the next meeting on Zoom.

This meeting was a short gathering we have with the producer of the show to check in with us and see how things are going. It’s a chance to voive any concerns, let her know what things are working well and to bring up any issues we see coming in the near future. But mostly we had a good chat and talked about all kinds of things.

We updated her on the new staff member that joined us and were asked whether the team member transferring over to our team needed to move desks or if it was okay if they stayed where they were. One ended up staying and the other decided to move into our area. The one who stayed had a nice window seat and didn’t want to give it up and who could blame her for that.

I spent the rest of the evening tidying my room and organizing my office space. My goal was to get a little done each day in certain areas. Mostly, I was choosing the spots that were irritating me the most and that I could work on at the time.

Robyn left to pick up the kiddo from school and run some errands. I watched some YouTube and did a little writing before we everyone came home. Robyn had some Greek leftovers from the kiddo, so I went downstairs and made myself a sandwich with roast beef, cheese, and muffaletta. I slathered on a bit of pepper jam to one side of the bread as well. It was actually pretty tasty all things considered.

We watched an episode of Survivor and some Bill Maher before deciding to call it a night. I grabbed my earbuds and listened to more of the Children of Dune audiobook while lying inbed in the dark.

After about an hour I started nodding off and stopped the playback. Another wonderful way to make my self ready for bed. It was a good day and I think I slept better knowing that I had accomplished some things that needed doing around the house.

Until tomorrow.