Jen's Progress Report #1

Health:
Things were tracking along nicely until I sprained my ankle on Tuesday night.  This is what it looked like yesterday:

I'm not entirely sure the picture conveys the grossness of the bruising.  Even the bottoms of my toes are bruised.  Unfortunately I've injured this ankle before; fortunately it meant I knew how to treat it.  I'm not wrapping it any more, but I am wearing a brace to help protect it from re-injury.  I really wanted to run our Girls on the Run season-end 5k on Saturday.  But I looked to the wisdom of the Internet, and an article I found said you should rest a mild sprain for at least a week.  I did the adult thing and skipped the race.  So I haven't done any intense exercise since Tuesday.  I have been doing some walking to start to rehabilitate and hope to go to yoga tonight.  I have an easy run scheduled with a friend tomorrow over lunch and I'm hoping I can go ahead and do that.

Not getting in much activity + weekend fun means I didn't do too great on the calorie tracking either.  The proof will be in the pudding when I weigh in tomorrow.

Financial:
No real updates here.  Countdown mode for Europe trip:  less than 4 weeks.

Work: 
Two weeks ago I was super cranky at work.  I got an e-mail from an external recruiter about a job and decided to talk to him about it.  Ironically I also got an e-mail from another recruiter shortly thereafter.  So last week I had short phone calls with both recruiters.  Basically I gave them an overview of my background and opportunities that might fit with that.  I sent them my resume as well, so they have it to match against future placements.  While I don't think anything will come of these initial conversations, it opens up the door for future things.  It also helps me level set the external environment so that I know whether I'm qualified/prepared for an external job search if I decide to truly do that at some point in the next year.  I also had a conversation with our recruiter internally and she is going to share my qualifications with the recruiters that fill positions outside of finance.  All of this makes me feel like I'm doing everything that's within my control.

In addition, I went to a roundtable event last Thursday that was made up of people from other companies in the metro area that do a function similar to mine.  The purpose is to try to create a networking group where we can all learn from each other and advance what we do at our companies.  My boss wasn't able to go, so I'm planning to share some of the discussion with her. Hopefully she will be open to some of these ideas.