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Zoe Girl
1-21-13, 4:35pm
Dang it, I just need to get this out because I know it is not appropriate to talk about in many situations.

I am doing a training with a partner organization tomorrow and I feel like crap about it. First of all I have not had any opportunity to put the process I have learned from the partner organization into practice. I am generally known as the person who will try new things and make them happen so it has just been a result of being moved school to school, low enrollment of programming, etc. So we were supposed to put on this training in November but the contract was not approved in time by our district. Turns out I am not as prepared as I thought I was based on planning the training with the other person. We scheduled a time last week to talk and I was not that prepared due to losing about 2-3 hours of work time due to lockdown/police shooting in our area. I am getting ready but allowing myself whatever i want to eat, a stopping time and even a few tears of frustration.

So my brain, can't talk about that at work. I am bipolar II, that is like the crazy entrepreneur type. It is thankfully not the go to the hospital type although I think a tremendous amount of energy has been spent the last couple years keeping me and my kids out of needing more serious help. That means the 'simple' tasks can take so much of my energy and an 11 hour day can affect me quite a bit (the shooting day was part of an unavoidable 11 hour day). I struggle to think in sequence and recall details, I want to hole up instead of returning phone calls, etc. I do what I need to do but it is real work. Meanwhile I am creating a new type of language class, supporting one of my staff in creating a writing class and supporting a young man who is coming in to teach digital music making after school. I want to work with our health inequities grant person to lead meditation one day a week before school if that works out. Plus I opened our etsy shop with my 4 items that had good photographs. I am pretty darn excited about these things and I am doing the detail work to get them done, but if you do not create things from scratch it may not be clear how much work it is compared to hiring a provider to come in and put a program into place.

So I have a break planned in an hour to meet someone for coffee. Now I just need to slough through the details that are so hard for me. Thanks for letting me just get this out, I am so scared that this opportunity I finally have to do a larger training is going to suck (low registration due to a variety of reasons that maybe I could have done better on is one thing I am already stressing about) and that means I will be forever doomed to under 30K because my brain is wired the way that it is.

Jilly
1-21-13, 5:16pm
You can only do what you can. I cannot help but think that you will be fine, as you seem so competent about all of this, leading the way when others are reluctant to do even the basics. It may be your process/brain-wise, or even your lot to struggle, but you will do your best. Frankly, that just has to be enough.

sweetana3
1-21-13, 5:43pm
Zoe, just reading about all the things you are doing in addition to the daily work, makes me tired. I know you have thought about it before but are you scattering your valuable time and energy?

Plus pat yourself on the back for making it thru a stressful work week that would have laid a better person low. Shootings and lockdowns cause mental and physical drains on anyone.

iris lily
1-21-13, 8:04pm
Zoe, just reading about all the things you are doing in addition to the daily work, makes me tired. I know you have thought about it before but are you scattering your valuable time and energy?

Plus pat yourself on the back for making it thru a stressful work week that would have laid a better person low. Shootings and lockdowns cause mental and physical drains on anyone.

yup.

Zoe Girl
1-21-13, 8:31pm
Thank you all, I am feeling much better after coffee with a friend. Our church is super struggling so I decided to ask for someone else to do children's church so I can concentrate on what I love which is the evening meditation service and conserve my energy that way. We already cut back meditation services because there were only 2 of us who are comfortable leading.

And I feel better because I was just reading and re-reading things and they made no sense. I hate that when my brain just shuts off. I ate a large cookie and had tea with real fat and relaxed, and it started to make sense again. So that was worrying me but my brain was not ready to wake up.

I am unfortunately required to do a lot of things but the things I really love doing are on the optional list, I am trying my best to have those moved to a higher priority. But I just got emails saying that other people are taking on a good chunk of ongoing parent and health programming! Yeah!