From last week’s plans:

• Work on Transition2 some more. Design phase…
• Share my experiences with delegating illustration Yay!
• Finish the two blouses I’m sewing I should’ve followed my hunch that the interfacing I bought was too heavy and the collar style I checked using a muslin was unflattering. Oh well! I’ve bought lightweight interfacing and I’ll shelve the other blouse until I find a collar style I can use to rescue it.
• Send my paperwork after getting the new salary letter Hooray! Hooray hooray hooray hooray! I sent in my paperwork for permanent residency, so now it’s just a matter of waiting to see if the Canadian government (which had been pretty nice when it came to taxes) will give me residency before my work permit expires.

I also:

• shared my Drupal staging and deployment tips, finally
• got an e-mail from Dries because of that post!
• got invited to give a presentation at the IBM Technical Leadership Exchange – *squee!*
• had great conversation with
• prepared my personal business commitments for the year, with some handy metrics
• prepared my individual development plan for the year, with great insights from my mentors
• made lots of maps: how I manage my money, what makes me happy, what makes me happy at work
• experimented with sending a newsletter to a small random sample of my LinkedIn contacts
• started updating our installation profile at work
• practiced more piano – got the hang of the left hand of Tolling Bells
• learned a little bit of Notes customization
• sketched some more in a reflection on happy-do
• fixed the template issues on my internal IBM blog, hooray
• biked a little less than 18 km (9 going, 9 back) so that I could buy some sewing supplies from downtown. Yay!
• attended Simon Boccanegra performed by the Canadian Opera Company – hooray!
• …and prepared muffins for breakfast for four days! =)

Next week, I plan to:

• get better at making design documents, thanks to my team members’ feedback
• prepare background research for upcoming talks
• develop a presenter’s guide for internal conferences
• spend some time going through some of the great learning resources we have at work
• mentor a colleague on Drupal application development
• sew a skirt
• sew a muslin for a blouse
• sketch five new stick figures
• … and continue to have and share tons of fun!