The weekend was not idle. On Saturday, I had four major tasks to do, and any one of them could have easily consumed my entire day. I started with the most important one, and strove for efficiency. I finished that task by 11:45 – that took too long! Now I was a little stressed. Skipping lunch, I started task #2, which I finished at 3:20. Not bad, but I still two tasks to do. About an hour into task #3, my wife suggested that I cancel the last item on my list (prep for a meeting tomorrow), and move the meeting to next week. She’d even make the phone call to the appropriate people. That worked out really well; it turned out that one of the meeting participants wasn’t even in the State this weekend. Next weekend would be much better. I got as far on #3 as I could; by 6:30, I needed food. I found a good place to stop. After eating, I hit the elliptical while speeding through two NFL conference games. I pretty much rested for the evening after that.
Sunday was, of course, church followed by a “brief” voter’s meeting. The meeting wasn’t brief, but it was good. Since I no longer had my all afternoon meeting to run, some of our friends suggested that we go to a late lunch. What a great idea! I had a Greek salad and Gyros at Omega’s (the restaurant I go to every Wednesday morning for Bible Study and “guy talk.”). Once home, I put in some more time in task #3 and still didn’t finish it! As I did yesterday, I hit the elliptical and watched the end of the second game that day, which turned out to be great fun to watch – it ended one play into overtime with the rookie Tebow throwing a touchdown. What a way to end a game! Way to crush those Steelers!
I really hope that the upcoming Superbowl is as exciting as that game.
Today was a whole lot of working, yet not accomplishing much – typical for a Monday. Tomorrow will be better. Tomorrow will also be dress-up day because we have a potential investor coming in. We want to make a good impression!
After one week of dieting and exercise, I have lost five pounds – something I couldn’t accomplish the entire last month. Five pounds is a good start; I hope I can lose 10 by the end of the month. We’ll see.