Condense.... Condense.......

This past week has been agony, happiness, frustration and the like. Filled with many epiphany's.... basically an emotional roller coaster. I could write a novel on this very subject. The last week of my life that is. With the freedom of a blog I may end up with one hahahhaha. I am struck with  a moment that happened in graduate school, Dr. Hayes my favorite professor was meeting with me before a power point project. Dr. always met with us to make sure it was ok before we did our presentations or papers to give us the time to correct anything and deliver the best product. It was one of the first power point presentations I had ever made and we had 5 minutes to deliver our information. I had 47 slides. Dr. Hayes was shocked I mean shocked and it took a lot to phase him......" Heather most students have 12 slides and you have 5 minutes that's it"  Apparently Dr. Hayes had never gotten a voice mail from me ... if he had he would have know I was famous for rambling on and leaving marathon messages.. that note hand written to people meant to be 3 sentences often ended up all over the card with extra paper... I am rarely at a loss for words but, somehow that moment was not the right moment to share that....... But me being me and grooving to my own beat I  did have to push the envelope a little and I told him " I'll talk really fast I know I can get through them I had timed myself and I account for talking faster if I was nervous." Little did he know that public speaking encouraged me it never made me nervous....... but again not for sharing at that moment. I had one day to condense 47 slide into 12..... Condensing is not my strong suit. Unless I am packing cars, bags or kids and I have my grandfather to thank for that amazing ability to fit 15 lbs of #$%^%^& into a 5 lb bag :) But I digress. The greatest lesson I learned from Graduate school was the lesson to condense or in the immortal  words of my 10th grade chemistry teacher KISS keep it simple stupid...... I did manage to cut it to 17 slide which was no small feat for me Dr. Hayes smiled I bent the rules a bit I had 12 slides of content the rest were bibliography etc. so I figured they didn't count really...... hahahahah So to bring this around I may have lots of little posts about this past week then it won't look as bad as I'm writing an epistle about my journey to re-introduce my husband to society.:)