Krikey. It's been too long (sorry Mom), summer has been busy. Its time to fill in the gaps.
*Pete and I typically work 10-13 hour days, Monday through Saturday.
*Pete is in the Tree Trimming business and loving it (most days). After a year and a half of lackluster employment through a contracting company at target.com, he left to work for a family friend (http://www.aspenwalltree.com/). He has worked seasonally for family friend Brent Aspenwall, since his high school years. Brent graciously took him back under his wing, and Pete has really enjoyed learning the ins and outs of the Arborist Trade. REALLY enjoying it. Pete is constantly talking about trees, the types, the care; he curiously scopes out other companies as they work, rattling off the various equipment they are using. Excitedly does side jobs for family members as needed. Due to some nasty summer storms, the crew has been quite busy, but Pete's content in working with his hands and not navigating a desk leaves him a much happier camper than when he was at Target. Plus he gets to drive big trucks and do all that boy stuff, while wearing safety green and hard hats etc. (a much better fit for his personality and passions if you ask me!)
*As my dad would say, I've been busier than a one legged man in a$$ kicking contest. Technically my workschedule is Tuesday through Saturday; however Mondays and Fridays I have been working with Life Time's MyHealthCheck business, providing health screenings for all Allina employees. Essentially we provide health screenings and 'health scores' for companies human resources so that their employees can be rewarded for good health through discounts on their health insurance premiums. It also provides education and awareness about employee's health. Which in the big picture, healthy employees = productive employee's. None the less, from 6:00am - 1:00pm, on Monday's and Friday's you can find me at various Allina Hospital locations facilitating health screenings. Which means I only truly get Sunday's off in my busy schedule.
*Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday you can find me running around Bloomington North Life Time fitness working with clients, classes, at meetings, working out, etc. Still absolutely loving what I'm doing. And LOVE the people I work with. One (of the many) things I LOVE about Life Time Fitness is that there is constantly new things to learn, ways to excel, and room for growth professionally.
*I just finished a month long certification for Weight Loss Coaching. This involved extensive education surrounding the Weight Loss culture at Life Time fitness, and how to essentially coach someone along the process of understanding their own weight loss journey. Life Time is a RBC culture, or a Results Based Culture. So a big part of the WLC certification and job is being able to navigate through the various resources we have to offer in order to get our members results. Some of those resources include Lab Testing, Metabolic Testing, Supplements/Nutritional Coaching, and supplemental devices for health/wellness. Reading that sentence gets me all sorts of geeked up. SO AWESOME. In addition to being a Weight Loss Coach, I have the awesome opportunity to be the Lead Weight Loss Coach at Bloomington North - which is quite an honor, since we have some terrific trainers and will be creating a one of a kind Weight Loss culture at Bloomington North under the lead of the Brilliant Jen Ahlberg.
*For me, part of the WLC lead is the Nutrition Team Lead also. Although this role is currently under some editing in the company, the role will essentially remain at Bloomington North. Some of the roles/responsibilities include making sure our team and team members have the education they need to understand and represent the nutrition philosophy and products that LTF has to offer. Not to mention some of the smaller day to day tasks of maintaining the Nutritional Product inventory, as well as doing product sampling and seminars for our members. So my plate has been (happily) full with my training business, as well as continuing education and taking on these new roles. I do still have to do an in person test out/interview with one of the corporate leads for WLC, so that will be coming up in the next two weeks!
*With the WLC role, I will be going to a Metabolic Testing certification tomorrow. So once again, continuing to add to my tool belt. After all, dad always told me to 'make your self valuable', and 'bring something to the table'. Well, I'm continuing to work on my arsenal.
*On top of everything I listed above, I have had the pleasure (insert eye roll here), of being called for Jury Duty. Fortunately I have been able to aquire "Call-In Status". Which means that I call in the night prior (at 6:30pm) to see if I have to report down town to the Government building at 8:15 the next morning. Then I also call in at 12:15 to see if I have to book it down town by 1:30 that very day. So it has been a little more stressful managing my busy schedule this last week, having to communicate to all my clients that there is a chance I may have to cancel on them, in order to fulfill my civic duty. I have one week left of my duty, and actually need to make my 12:15 call right now. Pause and insert on hold music here. Wahoo.."NO Jurors to report this afternoon". It is quite a sense of relief when I hear that report. Gets me pretty excited for the rest of the day. So I'm going to wrap this post up and get out and enjoy that sunshine.
*Last weekend was the start of the Fall 90 Day Challenge. I'm not going to go into great detail right now, as it deserves a post on its own. But Week two is going to be a good one. Although it is not one of my goals, I have to report that as a result of my focus on some specific things, I decided to be a little spontaneous this last weekend. While I was at work Saturday morning, Pete sent me a text asking if I wanted to go to Chetek to visit some of my family 'up north'. I live and die by my planner and scheduling everything in my life, so when curve balls are thrown at me (even fun ones), sometimes I experience significant stress and anxiety. But I truly think that because I have been taking care of myself (due to my 90 Day goals), I was up for some adventure. So after I got done with work, Pete and I hopped in his truck and drove to the lake. After working two weeks straight, without a day off, with the stress of coordinating 90 Day weekend, and dodging jury duty...kicking my feet up around a camp fire was INCREDIBLE.
*Then, icing on that cake, I got together with my mom and my sister Sunday afternoon to catch up and get pedicures. Great stuff. Love getting together with them for some girl time, to laugh, and relax. Will have to get a little people fix next weekend, as its been awhile since we have spent quality time with the Pechacek kids as well as Mr. Colton.
*A few other updates - Wedding: we picked a date, September 20th, 2014. :) At first I was a little stressed at picking a date, and just was surreal to think that THIS date, will forever have a significant place in our lives. But now typing that out...September 20th, makes me smile so big. We have the church taken care of and reserved; we are meeting with our (potential) reception site on Friday, and slowly piecing together our dream day and plans.
Like I said, time to enjoy the freedom of a day off. I do have to go in for one client, but I'm working on staying firm on my No work Monday boundaries. I'm a work in progress.
Have a FANTASTIC day. Feels good to be back on the blogosphere. :) Love ya mom ;)
