Cheerios, Chinese food and Harvard case studies = Busy week!

Let’s recap. This week has been another one of those tornado-like fly-by-the-seat-of-our-pants kind of weeks. So let’s start with Sunday, my birthday. Shaena took us out for brunch at our favorite breakfast restaurant around the corner, Indigo yard and we all took our good time; some of us were eating food and some of us were eating cookies with the entire face. Guess who. We have introduced Ethan to Cheerios and Rusks this week and he loves them! He can down Cheerios by the fistful and can savor the taste of a Rusk cookie for a food 15 minutes. Somehow he seems to think that it is funny to snack on those Cheerios, as when he gets a few of them, he’ll smile from ear to ear and you can really tell that he is thoroughly enjoying feeding himself.

Other than that, we have also finally ironed out dates for our trip up north in Sweden this summer and the research pro referenced in the entry below and I have spent hours trying to find the best deals and the best trip options. We have now booked our flights to Sweden, but still have to figure out what the best option is to get back, as the second session of the leadership program I am attending for work is to take place somewhere in Europe, not sure where yet, the day after our holidays are up.

Yesterday after work Maeghan dropped by to hang out and catch up after her fantastic trip to New Zealand and then Jen gave us a call and asked if she could pop by on her way home. ‘Of course you can!’ Jen also brought ‘Fun time Heather’ and their friend Claire. Since we are still overloaded with free wine from the housewarming party, some of us had a quick drinksy-poo and then as by magic we all had a simultaneous craving for ”Hellooo, Rice King!”. Fate had decided that we should treat ourselves to a Chinese feast, so we did. Completely ad-hoc and completely awesome!

Work has been manic for the last few weeks, sometimes enjoyable, sometimes just plain manic, but hey! That’s the way we roll in the fast-paced world of online business! On top of this I am heading down to London on Sunday to attend the first session of the same leadership program on Monday, so I really should be reading up on the Harvard case studies pre-course work that all participants have been tasked with reading. It’ll probably be my mission for Saturday to plow through all of that material and add my scribbles in the margins, like a real student. Will probably also uncork a bottle of wine while doing this, like a real student.

Shaena and Ethan are leaving for ‘the place of origin’ tomorrow morning so off to the airport we’ll go. Having said that, this is probably our queue to go to bed and catch a few winks.