ACK! What Did I Do?

My friend Anne just called with an exciting invitation. Would W and I play indoor soccer on a newly formed co-ed indoor team? First game is tomorrow. In this co-ed league, only women can score. W is to be goalie. We accepted.

Holy moley. Now I am simultaneously excited, scared, nervous, and cannot focus on work. It sort of feels like pre-race nerves. I have not played soccer - other than outside with my 6 yo son - in about 8 years.

So I am supposed to run 8 miles in the morning. If I run at 6 a.m., I should have just at 12 hours to recover before I running all out at soccer.

I also have to find a sitter for 2 hours.

One of Those Weeks

Both W and I have had sort of hard, stress filled weeks at work.

Yesterday, I terminated an employee. I believe it was for good reason and not arbitrary. He believes otherwise. I knew he would think that, so I was a ball of anxiety all morning. I went home at lunch to run a few miles to just work it out in my mind.

Today, W had a very difficult discussion about closing one of our offices. It is the right decision, but it is nevertheless extremely hard.

Neither of these decisions, nor the other decisions he, I and the VP-Operations make are ill conceived or capricious. And the hard decisions often come with much gut-wrenching determinations. It is not black and white.

What we always try to remember is that even though we are the owners, we also employ 120 people and ensuring that those people have a good, steady income is one of our priorities.

Fortunately, we have each other to help us make it through these weeks.

Anniversary Trip in Pictures