MIA

So I have not blogged for the last 7 weeks ... and I am supposed to explain this! Not sure how to do this without sounding like a whinny baby offering endless excuses. Its not that anything disastorous has happended it more like ALOT of things have been going on.

Since June of this year its been very busy at work ... the number of workers doubled and the projects got bigger and more complicated. So as a result I have been getting farther and farther behind on my other responsibilities at work (ask the last time I went out on a site inspection ... its been months). Its not just Kung Fu journalling that has taken a hit, its happening all over my life. Haven't been helping as much with my Mom. Its a litany of small things that I have not been keeping up with.

I like to be organzied and plan and schedule things unfortuantely lately everything has been getting done last minute, just under the wire so to speak. I do not like living like that ... its hugely stressfull and my theory is that with good planning you prevent that from happening. Its just that I have been juggling too many balls ... so many in fact that I don't notice that I dropped one until it comes to bite me at a later date when the status of the situation is now urgent. I.E. in November and December ... the safety audit; the bonding paperwork, healthy eating, my daily eating journal, blogging.

My life being so chaotic I guess conciously or unconciously I made choices about things that were going to get done and things that were going to be sacrificed. Kung Fu is something that is for me and that I do just because I like doing it. Alot of the other things in my life people are relying on me and it appears that I give those priority over something that I do just for me.

Did I make the right decision (conciously or unconciously) ... still don't know, but I was aware that I was not performing as well as I would like. Did I let the I Ho Chuan team down by my lack or participation? Absolutely!

Had a discussion with my husband a month ago and we agreed that we need to make some changes in the management of our lives. My husband Dean comes first before anything else, and Dean loves the ballroom dancing and I love dancing with Dean so its something that will remain in our lives. We both enjoy running our business, even if sometimes it makes you crazy, its never boring. I feel something missing without Kung Fu in my life so that remains. (You will notice Kung Fu came in third, I believe that is the correct order for me) The responsibility of caring for my Mom and my aunt is not something you get to slough off so it stays.

However altnerate arrangements can be made for renovations, healthy eating, working out, housekeeping, yardwork etc. which take up all kinds of time.

We have already started with this;

• A Bowflex at the office.
• We had a fellow come out a give us a price for some renovations that will happen in the spring.
• Found a service in St. Albert that provides organic, partially prepared meals.

Still need a housekeeper and someone interested in some partime yard work. Still need to convince my Mom to move from Sylvan Lake to an assisted living facility in Edmonton or area (that will be the tough one, I have been trying for the last two years). In additiion I asked my husband/business partner to not make any drastic changes at work for the year of the Snake so that Jackie (my right hand girl) and I can have a breather on the business management side of things. Hopefully life will smooth out as we put these things in place.