sacha chua :: living an awesome life

From last week's plans:

• Complete contact preferences feature and admin feature for forums (Drupal) Skipped
• Give
  two presentations at work (LinkedIn and Twitter, Totally Rocking
  Presentations at IBM) and submit a third (I.B.Millennials: Working with
  and Learning from Gen Y)
• Sew a nylon bag for carrying lots of stuff I have my own tote! =)
• Host a dinner get-together That was a surprisingly satisfying Saturday supper salad and sorbet soiree. =)
• Have a facial Ow!

I also:

• Accepted a challenging new assignment at work – Web 2.0 and Gen Y parts of strategy workshops with top clients, oh my!
• Had a garden salad with radish and lettuce sprouts
• Helped W- and J- do awesome things with my sewing machine
• Read lots of books
• Found out
• Biked a bit

Next week:

• Handle any issues in the Transition2 roll-out (seems pretty okay for now, looks like our lessons learned from last phase did the trick)
• Get ready for next two assignments
• Prepare presentations
• Blog thoughts
• Take pictures of sewing projects and garden
• Document lessons learned

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From last week's plans

• Social Recruiting Summit
• Taking the Stage: The Power of Voice
• Develop Drupal system – Transition2 Got the forums to mostly work
• Coach clients on LinkedIn
• Prepare presentations More work needed
• Attend sprouts class Skipped, decided to learn this on my own instead. $40 could buy a lot of seeds. =) Started mung beans and mustard seeds.
• Dinner party Postponed to next week.

I also:

• Sewed a laptop case with pockets for my power adapter, iPod, mouse, and other gadgets
• Attended W-'s extended family's Father's Day dinner and had tons of fun =)
• Uploaded some pictures
• Played shutterbug with W- and J-. It's like Punchbuggy, but you have to shoot the Beetle
• Planted marigolds and strawflowers in the front flower boxes, near the new blueberry bushes
• Read lots of books =)

Next week, I plan to:

• Complete contact preferences feature and admin feature for forums (Drupal)
• Give two presentations at work (LinkedIn and Twitter, Totally Rocking Presentations at IBM) and submit a third (I.B.Millennials: Working with and Learning from Gen Y)
• Sew a nylon bag for carrying lots of stuff
• Host a dinner get-together
• Have a facial =)

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From last week's plans

Relationships

• More photography, tidying up

Wealth/career

• Give presentation on ABCs of Boomers, X, Ys, Zs (nonprofits and generational differences)
• Fix more Transition2 bugs, add new partners
• Prepare for "Awesomest Job Search Ever" and "Totally Rocking Presentations at IBM" talks
• Fix my Linux partition

Skills/personal growth

• Write more articles / blog posts

Health/fitness
Bike to work on Friday =) Stayed home instead.

Also:

• Planted blueberry bushes
• Made my own eye mask from my fuzzy cat fabric

Plans for next week (this week, really):

• Social Recruiting Summit
• Taking the Stage: The Power of Voice
• Develop Drupal system – Transition2
• Coach clients on LinkedIn
• Prepare presentations
• Attend sprouts class
• Dinner party

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From last week's plans:

• Relationships: Play with photography Posted new phonos.
• Wealth/career: Revise guide, prepare Transition2 build, give Early Career Conference presentation, prepare other presentations Rocked Early Career Conference presentation (50 people, stick figure fun!), revised guide, etc.
• Skills/personal growth: Make dream book, play with photography, learn Send in the Clowns and more of Fur Elise, get more fabric =), sew blouse: Made dream book with pictures of photography, gardening, and sewing. Learned some more of Send in the Clowns and Fur Elise.
• Health/fitness: Explore High Park on my bike Still haven't. =) Got busy gardening!

Also:

• Went to the dentist
• Spent a day putting in the vegetable plot, yay!
• Had a massage – awesome!
• Took a self-paced course at IBM

Next week (this week, really):

Relationships

• More photography, tidying up

Wealth/career

• Give presentation on ABCs of Boomers, X, Ys, Zs (nonprofits and generational differences)
• Fix more Transition2 bugs, add new partners
• Prepare for "Awesomest Job Search Ever" and "Totally Rocking Presentations at IBM" talks
• Fix my Linux partition

Skills/personal growth

• Write more articles / blog posts

Health/fitness

• Bike to work on Friday =)

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From last week's plans:

• More Transition2 work – finish event-related bugs Another day, another build… Things are progressing nicely!
• More LinkedIn and Facebook coaching – prepare guide Well on the way towards a LinkedIn 101 guide for investment advisors and insurance agents
• More presentations – finish slides and notes! Delivered a presentation, submitted another one
• More gardening! Started seeds, yay!

Also:

• Watched Up – awesome!
• Checked out 22 books on gardening from the library, mwahahaha
• Cut out gingham check pieces for Vogue blouse.

Next week (well, this week, really):

• Relationships: Play with photography
• Wealth/career: Revise guide, prepare Transition2 build, give Early Career Conference presentation, prepare other presentations
• Skills/personal growth: Make dream book, play with photography, learn Send in the Clowns and more of Fur Elise, get more fabric =), sew blouse
• Health/fitness: Explore High Park on my bike

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