Facebook – The Final Frontier

I feel like I have a split personality on Facebook.

On the one hand, I use it to keep in touch with friends across the country, family across the world and my husband in the next room. However, I also use it for business reasons. There are so many of my contacts from work on Facebook, both their personal profiles whom I’m friended and the business pages that they run.

With over 560 friends (wow, that sounds super conceited, doesn’t it?) and probably 100 fan pages, it’s gotten to be too much to keep up. I created privacy lists to make the division between work and personal a bit more clear but there are somethings I’m not sure how to draw that line for.

Do you show other people pictures from the weekend? Your status posts? What about fun videos you find on YouTube?

For most people at work, I feel like I draw that line on the more conservative side, so I don’t insult anyone with my random videos or whatnot. But there are some people in the office who show everyone everything they do on Facebook (I think).

How do you keep that division between work and your personal life on Facebook? Because I need some serious help in that department.

Great way to start a Thursday…

Yesterday, I came into the office and found these on my desk:

While picking up jelly beans for the communal candy bowl, my boss saw these pretty tulips and thought they looked like me. Isn’t that sweet? When I asked her why, she said that I had been working like a crazy person and deserved a treat.

It’s nice to be loved at the office!

Right now, I’m feeling…

Like my feet are going to fall off.

I was basically on my feet for ten hours today, working two events and all that that entails.

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Let’s just say that the iced grande cinnamon dolce latte with whip this morning did NOT get me through the event like it should have. The petite vanilla bean scones did NOT cover the gap.

I love planning events but sometimes, I get exhausted by everything that has to get done in order to pull it off.

But everyone who attended, both staff and guests, raved about the logistics and food and the sneak peak that we gave the guests. I wish I could say more, but you know about that internet privacy thing!

I wish I could take off the rest of the week or go in late tomorrow… but there’s too much to do. I’ll have to settle for lunch with a colleague and a volunteer tomorrow, and a site visit for a new event on Thursday. Then it’s on a plane to visit my mom on Thursday night to spend the weekend with her. That’ll get me through!

Besides, the office is closed on Friday. :)

I love my job but sometimes I wonder why…

I have a problem saying no.

It’s getting me into trouble lately.

So there are two major events going on for my work tomorrow. I have to be at the first one and make sure the second one begins ok.

Then I have to scootch out and head to a tech rehearsal for Noises Off – which opens a week from Friday.

So when more stuff gets piled on my plate with the event – wrong information got in the article in the paper, itineraries are changing at the last minute, the DVD for the background TV at the second event wasn’t looping like it should, I need a certain type of Sharpies for the book signing and volunteers keep cancelling on me – I get frustrated.

I’m SO ready for Friday – when I’ll be done with this event. I’m enjoying my job, but really, sometimes I wonder why I like it when it FRUSTRATES me so much!