It's been a pretty hectic here, which is why there aren't many blog posts this week. Sometimes I feel bad when that happens because I know that there are quite a few people who check this blog every day to read my pearls of wisdom about proposals and such. Then, when they don't find anything new, maybe they are disappointed. Or maybe not -- I don't really know. But it does bother me because I feel I have made a commitment to blog fairly regularly. I wonder how others manage to do this when they are swamped with work and personal things. Maybe they have virtual assistants or ghostwriters? More likely they are better at managing their time than I am. My husband has long complained that when I get immersed in my work, I am oblivious to everything else. I guess that is the real problem -- the blog just ends up taking a back seat.
My work this week has involved a B2B proposal for a new client who got my name from someone I don't know. I received e-mails from two different people in this company, and when I called them back, they sounded so desperate that I agreed to help them even though I had planned to take a few days off between projects. I always seem to get hooked by these desperate-sounded people because I know first-hand what they are going through, and I end up feeling sorry for them. In fact, they were desperate for good reason. They had a deadline of last night and what they had done so far was a mess -- full of poorly written, vague and non-specific answers to a whole lot of questions that their potential client wanted answers to. Lots of waffles and flowers, but no substance. So I helped them work through it, and by yesterday evening it was looking pretty good.
This week I was also contacted by a firm that wanted to know if I would be interested in participating in an evaluation of an international project. I've done quite a few of these evaluations, but I'm not sure I really want to do this one. It requires a two-week overseas trip in June, plus some up-front and follow-up work. I said I might be interested and promised to send them an updated resume, but haven't gotten around to doing that yet. Maybe today.
Oh, and it's spring. This is good and bad. Good because it's getting warm and pretty; bad because it's the start of the spring/summer proposal season. I've got more requests in my inbox than I can fill. But I'm not going to think about that today because I'm finally getting around to getting my hair done and working in my yard. Yes, I'm actually going to relax.
Hope you all have your own relaxing weekend.
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