boom!.. winnah!

Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday of this week were filled with our annual planning meetings for Service Course at Mavic for the upcoming race season. The three long days in the conference room were filled with all the minutia of the program: how things were done over the past year, how things will be done in 2009, what needs to be axed, what needs to be ordered. From cables, housing, and crimps to spokes and rims to stickers and hats to tents and tools to clothing for our volunteer corps, no detail was too small to scrutinize - and all of that was just one afternoon's worth of topics. Now we use a few days to button-up the end of the year and then relax for a week or so before jumping feet first into putting our best laid plans into action. Or so I thought.

Boom. Tonight, I get hit with an email that I want to dance in the street over, but as is life, it's not that simple. Instead of relaxing over the break, I'll be getting deep inside my own head, weighing options, priorities, wants, needs... You get the picture. It's also possible I'm overreacting. I do that. It's possible that I could juggle a couple of things more easily than I imagine and with more help and support than I expect. These are all things I'll have to explore and scrutinize before the first of the year.

So, before I get ahead of myself, I think I need to sit back, take a breath, and relax. Things are good, and if I'm not careful, it's possible they might go and get better on me.