Booked Solid

I've spent the last two days in a training seminar for work, and my evenings have been devoted to my daughter (Wednesday), and an old friend & my daughter (Thursday), so I've been mostly away from the computer. But they have been two very good days. The seminar was about the company values and how we can actually live them at work and in our homes. We talked about things like "Be Here Now," being aware of our filters when we interact with others or process information, giving and receiving appreciative/constructive feedback, recognizing and celebrating achievements, and etc. It's pretty good stuff. But two full days is a long time to be in a room with more than 100 other people. The company bought us lunch at the hotel, but the second day I went to the coffee shop with my journal and bought myself some alone time instead. That was a bit compromised because this is the coffee shop where I used to meet my mother when my daughter was an infant (it was just about equidistant between our homes), and we've been going threre for years, so many members of the staff have known us a long time and want to ask about my daughter. So I ended up doing more conversing than I really wanted to, but it was nice to know people remember and care about my family.

This afternoon after work I have a session with my shamanic teacher, then the daughter and I are going to have a Payday-Pizza-and-Movie night. Tomorrow I'm having lunch with one of my closest connections from seminary, and then a flooring rep is going to visit, measure my house, and provide some quotes for finally getting these bare, ugly floors covered now that the flooding seems to be under control.

I have a quote from AAA for the Disneyland trip with the daughter in November, but our first choices -- booking a compartment on a train for the round trip and staying in the Disneyland hotel for three days -- come up to around $2,500. I'm going to get back to them on some different options. But we are going to go!