I haven’t made much progress on my 12 by 2012. (I’m posting updates on that old post for now, if you are interested.) I’m such a slacker. BUT! We have a three-day weekend coming up and not too much planned so I’m planning to tackle clean-up of either the garage or the office, depending on the weather. It’s been alternating between warm and cool lately, and hanging out in the garage isn’t much fun if it’s warm and humid.
Is anyone else tackling a to-do list before the end of the year? Are you making progress? Please tell me I’m not the only huge procrastinator…
We had a real, live thunderstorm late this afternoon. I didn’t even notice the beginning because I was on the treadmill at the Y, but I was stupidly excited to dash to my car in the rain. I can barely remember the last time it rained (Columbus Day weekend?), much less the last time we had a good, solid thunderstorm.
I’m enjoying a much more relaxed week at work after 3-4 solid weeks of go, go, go. I worked my butt off to get my organization through the pre-flight certification process for both Progress 45P, which launched on October 30 carrying cargo and supplies, and Soyuz 28S, which will launch late Sunday night with three new ISS crewmembers. The pre-flight reviews were far crazier than usual since the Russians lost the 44P vehicle in late August. For a while there, I was feeling like nothing more than a chart-making machine.
But late Friday night, after our final day of reviews where I gave three different presentations, I got a super nice and very complimentary email from someone several levels of management above me thanking me for all my efforts. It pretty much made my month, at least as far as work is concerned. Confirmation that someone appreciates my hard work is something that I didn’t get often in some of my previous jobs, but it really makes a difference. I like to feel appreciated, simple as that.
Your to-do list will always be longer than what you can reasonably do. At least that’s what I’ve found! But I will say your 12 by 2012 list was very ambitious!
I don’t have anything big to accomplish for 2012. I did checkoff a bucket list item on July 8, 2011; it was then or never for me to see a Space Shuttle launch. But I never expected to see a Shuttle landing. As part of NASA’s first and only tweetup of a landing, I was next to the control tower of the SLF to see Atlantis come home on July 21.