My Crazy Life

Okay, I feel like I've disappeared off the face of the earth lately and I owe everyone an explanation ... and I need to clear my head of all that's going on so that I can process it!

Work: Work is crazy and good and requires the epitome of multi-tasking skills right now. I'm balancing both my old job and my new job, and will continue to do that until my replacement is hired, which will likely be August. Thank goodness I've moved offices to the quieter side of the world because sitting by the front door like I used to made for a lot of distractions! Just this week alone, I've been balancing major projects for Kmart, Target and my new Convenience and Single Serve businesses. A bit of education for all of you since you don't work in consumer goods ... there is a definitive process and thought behind how items are placed on the shelves of your stores ... and it takes a long time to figure out how to make all those items fit, while also trying to "read your minds" to determine how you would like them best shelved. For example, at a place like Kmart, what makes sense to put at eye level - Advil or Sleep products? What should be on the bottom shelf that an older customer is less likely to need? How much space does each item need in order to limit the amount of work store personnel need to do to keep the shelves stocked? Its a giant jigsaw puzzle and I've been working on multiple versions all week. Of course, Kmart wanted them done within a few days and its a week long project so you can imagine how that's gone.

Let's see what else ... oh, Target needs their category strategy presentation done by the end of May and two weeks in May I'm traveling all week. That's a 6 week project to cram into 2 weeks. I haven't even touched what's going on in the new job and for the sake of not boring you, I won't. Let's just say those few hours a day I see Brianna are more precious since I often don't see her at all until I pick her up from daycare, partly because she's decided sleeping till 8 is a better idea than waking up at 6:30 (yeah!!) and partly because getting to the office early is the only way I can get anything done!

I'm counting down the days till Justin and I leave for Cabo even more now than I was a few weeks ago! Which also means, I'm actively trying to get in shape and lose this extra weight that's creeping up on me. I've got high hopes for success so we'll see how it goes. Stress doesn't help me but I'm keeping a positive mental attitude.

The highlight of my weekend should be eating crawfish (or mudbugs as Justin calls them) with some good friends this weekend. I'll post up pictures afterwards and hopefully, that will help the grandparents get their fix since they haven't seen any in awhile. I simply haven't had time lately to carry around a camera and snap pictures of her while also trying to keep up with her!