Life in the Fast Lane

    

Happy Tuesday, readers. This week will be fun, but a whirlwind. I have so many things that need to get off my work plate so I can be off tomorrow-Friday stress free. This includes reading and scoring another 40 funding proposals, each will take at least 10 minutes, setting up six new contracts, preparing two financial reports, and catching up from last Thursday and Fridays messages before my in box fills again. I joined DD1 last night for a dinner/presentation on female entrepreneurism. She is looking deeply at her options for a side career, if not eventually full time career free lancing. I want to understand better the opportunities and challenges should I decide after retirement that I want to perhaps contract out for a while. 

     Tonight is DD2's finale show. All three choirs, the girls prep, the mixed prep, and her varsity choir put on a final show for family and friends. It is the last show for the other choirs, but the launch for DD1's choir as they head to their national competition. When we get home, there will be last  loads of laundry, packing, and a quick tidy up. DD1 is staying with pup. We are so grateful for her. It is quite inconvenient for her, and is requiring her coming home after work instead of going right to her gym, or going in a little later, or coming home on her lunch hour. Good thing she love the little  guy. 

     We are driving as far as Bloomington, Illinois on Wednesday and most likely meeting up with other parents. We are not at the same hotel as the kids. We hope to get to Nashville by 4:00 on Thursday, and enjoy the night life before I head over to the kids hotel to help with hair. They perform the next morning for preliminaries, done by 3:00, so then we get more free time. If they make finals, that will be Saturday morning. The kids have a big show choir event that evening with all the schools and choirs, so again, we'll find more adult fun, though not too late. We are making the long drive home on Sunday in one swoop-taking nearly 14 hours. Perhaps not smart, but is what it needs to be with our schedules. 

     Life in my lane will be pretty tiring this week. Hopefully I'll get a few pictures here and there to share. Whatever is keeping you busy this week, make the most of it.