Crazy week part 1

Friday, 15 April 2022

Work is crazy at the moment, I'm working long hours and seem to be living with heightened anxiety levels between 8am and 6.30pm every working day. It's wearing me out.

So this week was always going to be extra daunting.  Exciting, but daunting.

It started last Saturday:

Jon and I volunteered to be course marshals on the new kunanyi mountain running event - our mission was to sit at Junction Cabin and encourage and direct the runners through to the correct track of the 5 available choices at that particular junction (theirs was the most uphill on).  It was an easy and fun gig, the only less than easy bit (but still fun), was the bit about getting up at 4.30am so we could drive up to the springs then walk the 3.5k in the dark to get to our position in time.   

Not surprisingly we were running a bit late, so we had to jog the last 2 ks - luckily we have good head torches, and lots of warm clothes. As soon as we got to our position we changed out of running shoes, and into ugg boots and puffer jackets.  We didn't need them all day though, by the time we clocked off at around noon, it was t-shirt weather. I think it was a great day out for all the runners - we certainly had a good time.

Once we got home around 2, we had originally planned to pack the car and head to launceston but instead we decided to stay at home for the night as we weren't ready to go anywhere and it meant Zali and I could watch the F1 Grand Prix qualifying.

Sunday:

Getting up early again, we drove the 2.5 hours to go orienteering near Evandale which was fun. Then we sent Jett home with Jo, while the rest of us continued on to Launceston making it to our budget motel minutes before the start of the F1.  This was the moment when Zali finally let us start eating the delicious F1 themed biscuits she had made.

Monday:

Thankfully we could sleep in until 8 before packing up and heading to Westbury to do our first (and last) inspection of our holiday house which is being built at the Tasbuilt site there.  It was exciting to see all our choices come together:

After our pretty quick look around the 3 sections, we scooted back home and to our desks to work the rest of the day. That kind of ended part one of the crazy week.