Today was a good day.

Well, there's nothing like a good health scare to throw you off track and make you work to get it back.

Speaking of work, I didn't exactly cover myself in glory last year. Some of it was totally understandable (during radiation) and some of it just felt like I'd never get back to my normal self. I had a come-to-jesus meeting August, and since then had at least climbed back on the project management side of things; and more recently I've felt like I'm getting the analytical side of things back again.

On the upside, a year in which raises are getting postponed is a good year to have an off-time... because it didn't affect my pay increase! But I'd never run my work that way intentionally.

Today I went to Toastmasters and had a couple of roles. Our grammarian, at the end of meeting mentioned that I "shone" today: monkey's uncle, uglier than sin, and - his favorite - "personal peccadillo." He wanted to know if you could get that at a mexican restaurant. Of the 4 phrases he identified, three of them were mine. Sweet!

Went back to my desk and prepped a two o'clock (recurring) meeting that has previously been the site of me definitely falling down on the job. To my delight, the team I was working with was off and running so much that it took quite a bit just to keep up, but it was an extraordinarily productive meeting and made me look great. My boss actually complimented me highly after the meeting, and I said, "I'm BACK!" That's probably still not entirely true, but I'm definitely much closer to form.

Today was a good day.