List maker

I have a lot of feelings after this week and I just don’t know what to do with them.

My routine of eating and exercising has been crazy due to the Hurricane and my office being closed.  My emotions are all over the map.  I was overwhelmed with worry for my friends and family in harms way and overjoyed when they were ok,  felt helpless for my friends that I could not get to that needed help or lost everything  I was exhilarated by the challenges at work and disappointed that I did not think ahead and have better plans in place,I was overjoyed by the time I spent with my daughter and grandsons and saddened by how quite the house sounds now.

So to make sense of things when I am like this, I need to make a list of to dos..

1. Get a backpack – since I am no longer taking the subway, I need a good backpack to carry my computer and wallet. Function over Fashion.

2. Get some regular playdates with the grandsons, these natural disasters don’t happen that often.

3.  Activate a disaster plan that includes a phone tree and write all the information down .. for work, for the family, for our friends.  We all rely on our contacts in our phones so when the power goes out. POOF there goes the info. Laminate it. Distribute it.

4. Do not miss a workout. If I miss a 30 minute workout, I see a increase in my weepiness.  I can’t blame that on the Hurricane.

5 .Thank every NYPD, FDNY, National Guard and volunteer I see on the city streets.  It is amazing how many of them are out there directing traffic because the lights do not work and repairing store windows and doors and helping the city get back on its feet.

6. I need to focus on the rest of the month.  Strandsgiving on Nov. 17 and the upcoming Thanksgiving trip and Turkey Trot 5K with Laura and Chuck.

7. I am a Sweat Pink Super Sister.  I need to activate the heck out of that and get a bunch of us together!

Now I feel better.

signed,

your galfriday4hire