In a nutshell: tiredy.
At work:
- Co-production resources project: this is speeding up as the final deadline approaches, I’m churning out materials and getting them out to everyone else involved so they can action them (digital team, translators, etc). Last interview completed to gather the final case study in the set!
- Website co-production project: in the last weeks of engagement now, pretty structured and busy with deliverables every week, but going well and the client is a) happy with the information we are bringing back and b) actioning it in their website build, it’s really nice to see the immediate improvements in line with what people have said.
- Project supporting team development: finally done an in-person meeting with the team (after many 121s via Teams), got to an agreement to run a dialogue process with them to rebuild their relationships over the next few months. This will mean meeting with them every few weeks in west Wales, so a fair bit of travel coming up.
Deliverables this week:
- Lots of little bits within ongoing projects that need to go out to various colleagues and to clients as interim progress deliverables, nothing big completed this week (but that’s ok, everything is under way!)
Development this week:
- The proposal I submitted last week for Action Learning Sets has been declined, which is a shame because it would have been super interesting, but it’s also fine because the turnaround was 8 weeks for a significant amount of work, and it would have been super intense.
- Invitation to Quote, Co-evaluation: been picking away at this but not doing amazing, my brain is tired and tbh I could have done with starting it about 4 weeks ago, if only. [Update a bit later: ’tis now done!]
- Health and social care event: had an inception and design meeting for an event late March, which I’m going to help design and facilitate.
At home:
- I finally went back into the sea today (for 5 minutes! because the water temperature was about 6.5degC). I think the last time I went was on 21st December, though I went down to provide moral support (but didn’t dip because I was full of cold) on New Year’s Day. I missed all the previous weekend dips this year due to illness and / or being in work catch-up mode. I’ve been working the past 2 weekends (plus this one too) and tbh I’m TIRED.
- I took a moment to reflect today and realised the last few months since September have been brutal on a personal level – three months of managing TomCat’s declining health followed by losing him in November, being ill from Boxing Day through mid-January, and the cumulative effect has left me still in catch-up mode rather than having cleared the decks and gotten ahead of the game to start the new year like I had planned. My AuDHD brain is all depleted and the next 3 weeks are full of interim project deadlines – and then, Singapore! I feel like if I manage to cling on till end of Feb I will have done well. And somewhere in the mix I need to just, y’know, rest.
The sea at Penarth this morning