success

Like the title indicates, success on multiple levels today.

First off, I did NOT want to get up and exercise today. But scheduled for today was my jog/walk by the riverside. And I knew if I didn't get out there before 6, the heat would be too intense. So I bribed myself out of bed, promising that I could come back home and go back to sleep if I wanted to—AFTER the exercise was done.

It worked. I was out the door by 6 and pushed myself at a pretty good pace. Home before 7. Once I had downed three glasses of water, I headed into the bedroom to get out of my sweaty clothes and shower. But, our bedroom was nice and cool, because we run the air conditioner when we sleep, and Mr. had only just turned it off and vacated the room. The bed was too tempting. Remembering my promise, I allowed myself to lie down—sweaty clothes and all— "just to cool off a bit." Yeah, no. I woke up two hours later. I guess I was really tired.

But even with that unexpected delay to my day, I was up and showered and working on my logo designs by 9:30. I solved my scanner issue first off, by just taking a digital photo of my artwork. Not the best solution, but it worked in a pinch. After all, I needed to get everything done by tomorrow. I will stop to figure out the problem properly later, when I don't have a deadline breathing down my neck.

And I made really good progress—in spite of the fact that I forgot to save a file for quite a while, went to save it, pushed the wrong key command and actually caused the program to crash, thus losing about an hour's worth of work. UGH! Don't panic, persevere. And by the end of today, I have three logo options that I feel pretty good about. Not bad at all.

Of course, my client contacted me at supper time, saying something has come up and they can't meet tomorrow after all. But hey—the deadline got me moving. I'm glad to have things so far along.

Besides that, I was actually rather social as well today. Mr. and I met a friend for lunch, and then after supper I met another friend for foot massages. Nice. Both were great.

And I did dishes.

Super day. As much as I struggle against it, I know I am an achiever at heart. Days like today where I can see tangible results to my work leave me feeling very satisfied. Other days, where I know I do valuable, worthwhile things, but have very little to show for it, I struggle to feel successful. Yes, I still need to work to develop my Mary, but for today at least, Martha is VERY happy. :-)