Weekend wrap-up

Oy. Didn't get around to posting over the weekend. There goes my perfect attendance reward, lol. Friday's call with the business coach wasn't too aweful, but I still really need to get marketing & new patient inflow figured out. Friday evening, the hubby & I had a lovely dinner at our favorite sushi place. We even treated our cat to a small piece of sushi fish when we got home. She was VERY happy about that! Saturday morning was spent crafting at a friend's house. I finished up a couple more pending hummingbirds & worked in the ends on a few small crocheted & tatted pieces. I greatly dislike working in ends, but it must be done. These pieces aren't needed for anything at the moment, but I like to keep these little bits around just in case I need a little doodad at some point. Saturday afternoon was spent playing with my new tablet & figuring it out. I'm very non-techno-savvy. I don't even have a smart phone. (I LIKE my flip phone, thank you!) But I'm liking the tablet quite a bit. After the hubby got jome from capoeira class, he asked if I'd like to have some friends over for a belated bday celebration. Sounded good, so we called everybody & I spent the rest of my day cleaning before people got here. And by cleaning, I my clearing the clutter out of the living room & transferring it to other areas. My office/craft room (the croffice) is now a complete disaster zone. >_< But a grand time was had with the friends. After they left, I syayed up entirely too late playing on the tablet & trying to figure out the best configuration for the tassels I made an eternity ago for a dance tassel belt. The sickness gripped me pretty tight at the end of the night, so I popped a couple nyquil so I could breathe & sleep & stop hacking up a lung.

Sunday. Oh Sunday. We we supposed to meet my parents back in my hometown for a birthday breakfast with them at 9:30. I wake up to my mom calling my phone at 10, asking if we were still coming. Yikes! Aparently the nyquill knocked me out so hard that I didn't notice I'd turned off my alarm when it went off & rolled back over. The man & I flew out of bed & out the door to meet my parents at their house instead, for gifting, to take things over there we don't need at the apartment, & to retrieve things we do need that we've been storing over there. A quick visit & we were flying out the door again, getting to our weekly D&D game about 15 minutes late. My sickness had me pretty floored, so I'm not sure what happened in the game, but I'm pretty sure we were awesome. Got home & collapsed on the couch watching a few eps of Spartacus.

Today, I'm feeling much more in the land of the living. I've blogged too long again, though, so I'll be flying out the door again. I sense a pattern here. Have another appointment for my knee, & I still need to get my stats compiled & sent to my biz coach. Crafting tonight with a friend who needs some distraction. Happy Monday!

Friday

Aaaaand it's Friday! I'm not as excited as most would be though. Every other Friday morning, I have a phone meeting with my business building coach. I always dread those calls, especially when things are slow at the office. He always expects that I can get so much more done than I ever do. Maybe it's the strange time vortex I seem to exist in, where everything I do takes three times as long as it would take anyone else. Maybe it's my irrational hesitation at the unknown & in the face of things that terrify me, like a lot of marketing ideas do. Either way, there's a half hour of sweating & frustration coming up this morning. I always leave myself some time after the call to calm down & get my head back on straight before I'll see any patients.

Yesterday was my birthday. It was fairly meh for the most part, and the weather was dreary, damp, & dark, but there were still some highlights. :) Went out to lunch with a friend & the hubby. Got lots of hello's on Facebook, including a very sweet sentiment from my dad. My dad stopped by the office on his way home & brought me Captain D's for dinner, which I haven't had in ages. We used to go to Red Lobster for my birthday a lot, but we weren't able to this year. He knew I'd be stuck at the office all evening, & he wanted to treat me to dinner both as a birthday treat & in case I didn't have time for dinner otherwise. That ended up working great, because my evening patients shuffled their appointments around, so I actually did get stuck at the office too late to have grabbed any dinner before dance practice. The shuffle also gave me time to sit down with my dad & have a lovely time just catching up. My life's been so helter-skelter that I haven't had much time to just chat. Can you tell I'm a daddy's girl? ^_~ The dance ladies got me a sweet birthday card. And when I got home, I discovered the hubby had forgotten his promise NOT to get me a bday present. He bought me way too many exensive things on the ski trip, & he has an ammended speeding ticket to pay for. We're not exactly comfortable financially, so he promised he would treat the ski trip items as my early bday presents. But he got me something anyway. A shiny new Microsoft Surface! Eeeep!!! I've been looking at getting a tablet for the office, and mentioned the Surface at one point. My techie friend & colleague further convinced him it's what I need. So poof! I has a new toy! :D Super happy! Even though he really shouldn't have spent so much money on me! I need to call my accountant today & figure out if/how I can classify it as a business expense, since I'll be using it for work, & make it a tax write-off. I figured I might have to return it & buy it back again, this time with the business's debit card so the money trail looks right, but I'm not sure. Just in case, I kept it in the box, even though I really wanted to play with it!

My knee is healing still. The Kinesiotape is working and has greatly reduced the amount of bruising. I think the swelling has gone down some, too, but it's hard for me to tell. Another reason I know the KTape is working: I'm getting sick. I didn't expect that one! Makes sense, though. Now that all the guck from the injury (blood, other fluid, dead cells, etc) is draining out of my knee finally, it's getting into my lymphatic system. My body's now having to deal with getting all that mess flushed out, & is likely neglecting my immune system a bit. Ah well. I'll live. :)

In crafty news, I'm still looking for a tatted jewelry set pattern. I'm just not really feeling the free ones I found. I may peruse etsy later & see what patterns are availabe for purchase. I was also very happy to discover that my favorite tatter, TotusMel, took my suggestion for where her newest design could go in overall design. :)

Today: work up stats & a marketing calendar before my coaching call this morning. Call my accountant to figure out the write off issue & just to ask in general what the heck I need to start putting together for him so we can do my taxes. See if there are any more appeals I need to make with insurance companies. And the day will probably wrap up much more pleasantly than it will begin: with a belated bday dinner at our favorite sushi spot & maybe a bit of tatting. :)