Temptation Table

Tuesday April 5^th

Well, it’s official. K isn’t going to be coming back to work any time soon. The latest word is early May. Currently, I’m asking myself, can I make it through another week? How on earth am I going to make it through another 4!? Sigh…oh well- I gotta give it a go, right?

I spoke to a few members of the team this morning to see if any of them would be willing to fill in for me next week. It took a little bit of convincing, but my week off is covered! Woo hoo!

Now I just have to make it through training tonight with J.  The new Tuesday routine has more aerobic components than our usual workouts. There’s one bit where I have to run zigzag through some orange pylons and then do 5 jumping jacks /star jumps at each end. I have to do this 10 times. It doesn’t seem to matter how early or late I eat lunch, I tend to feel a bit nauseous about ½ way through. So, J takes pity on me and at one end, she has me do bicep curls with the barbell. At first, this seems like an awesome idea- anything that isn’t jumping is much better for my stomach. Then it hits me, I have 3 sets of 20 push ups to do in this circuit! My arms may very well fall off!

Another group comes into the Centre to set up for their evening function, so J suggests we do all of the running components now, and then move into the white room for the rest of the session.  By the time I finish the 40 triceps dips, the chest press and 60 push ups, I’m convinced that I’ll never be able to lift my arms above my head again.

We walked out of the white room and along the back wall of the Centre was a table decked out with 3 different types of cheeses, a giant bowl of chocolate and a huge plate of chocolate chip cookies. Now that’s just not cool!

Time Off With a Twist

Monday April 4^th

I fell asleep last night with the horrible thought that even though I’d booked my leave for next week, K had left before it had been officially approved! Now, S was on leave as of Friday. So in effect, I’m acting for K, and now I need to approach J who is acting for S. There are so many people acting in roles at work, it’s more like a drama class than a work place! I hold on to the slim hope that K will return to work today.

But, that was not to be. Fortunately, I know J well enough to send him a panicked email. I was totally relieved when he rang to tell me that my leave was approved. The kicker came when he suggested that I would need to find a team member to step in for me while I was away next week.  Not as easy as it sounds.

I put out some feelers and waited…

By 4pm, it was time to shut down and dash off to the Centre for my session with V. I had lots to talk about tonight. First on my list? Last week’s role play at college. I figured counselling would be a pretty safe career choice, but finding out first hand that I could still come face to face with my personal phobia, had shaken me a little. Well, a lot.

It was good to talk to V about it. She offered some interesting insights. If I can get past the resistance that I have to getting more in touch with my intuition and my other senses, I can access information that can help my future clients. It’s fascinating to me that when she puts across how it will assist other people, I’m interested. Yet, when it’s just for my benefit, I hesitate.