I'm not drinking wine, but that cherry coke you serve is fine

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I'm not drinking wine, but that cherry coke you serve is fine

This morning I wrote a monster to-do list from hell. I'm pleased to say that I'm doing a bit better now - and I still had time to do lots of nice things - go to my neighbour's baby's birthday party, cook some nice food, go food shopping, chat with my amazing friend in the local organic shop (I call him my mum away from home as he helps me to choose products when I am sick etc.) and do some self-care.

So how am I doing now and where am I at please? Thanks.

What else remains to be done please? Thanks.

Really what I want to talk about is what I have left to do:

  • I want to listen back to the 45 minute session I did with my amazing manager on problem solving 
  • I want to look at the code we wrote concurrently
  • I want to consolidate somehow - blog post, LinkedIn post, message to manager or journal entry
  • I want to turn a precursor session he gave me into two blog posts
  • I want to listen back to something he said about `yields`
  • I want to turn that into a LI post because it was so beautiful
  • I want to listen back to the last few minutes of a lesson we did on clients and servers because I feel there was something important at the end - I believe the session was on 28/10

And what else?

  • I want to write up a journal entry of how it feels to be where I am at right now in my dragon journal
  • I want to finish evidencing how I have met desired behaviours and actions for this week
  • I want to find examples of code I don't understand from backend APIs for technical sessions on Monday and next week (but will do this at work perhaps)
A green and purple infographic with monsters and it says "monster to do list"

Why do I do all of this?

Because EVERYTHING I DO

EVERYTHING I DO

I DO IT FOR THE WIND FARMS

I DO IT FOR THE WIND FARMS

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