Today some networking/acquisitions working started coming to fruition. Last October I went to Ft. Lauderdale with my boss for a Faith-based development conference sponsored by BB&T. While down there I met several non-profit directors from NC and they all seemed really excited about getting into affordable housing development, specifically utilizing the low income housing tax credit program. Towards the middle of June one of the ladies called me out of the blue wanting to discuss how we could work together. Since our company-sponsored conference was coming up I invited her to attend, turns out her husband attended and went to the property management sessions instead of the developer sessions...oh well. Fast forward to last week and she calls again and wants to set up a meeting face-to-face to discuss development since she's new to the game, so I set a date for this morning.
I hadn't really planned on a formal presentation until I was informed we had a "Tax Credit 101" type presentation already created so I decided to work with that. It turns out what was the perfect thing for her. The presentation was a whopping 88 slides but they presented the material in an easy to follow order. We ended up talking for 1.5 hours as I presented the material and answered her questions. She's definitely fired up to get the ball rolling with affordable housing development. This game isn't that easy to play with many, many balls that a developer must juggle and hurdles that must be jumped for a successful development to be built but I think she's getting a feel for everything. It's really neat to be a part of helping somebody work towards achieving a dream; especially when the dream helps a lot of other people have a place to live. Even if nothing comes of the meeting it was great practice in describing the tax credit program and presenting all the steps to getting a development built. My boss also stopped in to meet her at one point and she told him she was very impressed with me when I met her in FL which made me feel great! One things for sure, I haven't done that much talking at once in a long time, my throat was scratchy at the end.
In other news, here's a brainless game I saw on the Hive today: Keep the tennis ball in the air (should be a soccer ball) My highest score is 27 and was my first time playing; I guess I get bored easily.
Also don't eat and exercise. I've been doing pretty well with exercising every day for the past couple of weeks in the afternoon. The only downside is that I'm always hungry when I get home from work so I tend to eat dinner and that isn't such a good thing before exercising. I guess I just need to eat a snack of some fruit or something to get something in me and for a little post work energy boost. Do any of you wise blog readers have any suggestions?
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Eat a lot of little healthy things during the day and not meals. Eat something at least every two hours. It keeps you from feeling really hungry and you still lose weight because it speeds up your metabolism. Peanut Butter is good for a mid morning snack because of how your body digests it. And don't eat big meals. And you should have a small snack before you exercise(Whole grain or veggies, not fruit). The fruit has a lot of natural sugars not good right before you exercise makes you thristy and tired(eat that for dessert). And if you don't eat at all you come back hungry, eat a lot, and gain weight. Swimming is supposed to be the exercise that actually makes you gain weight if you don't snack.
I think I've lost 5 pounds already here. The pants that were tight when I got here are falling down :-0 Watch out!
Jacs
If I'm going to be working out (especially if I know it's going to be a hard workout) after work, I try to eat something around 4:00. Usually a granola bar, or a granola/yogurt parfait thing from our cafeteria. Sometimes fruit. For me, I just want to have something in my stomach so it's not growling. Even if I don't eat anything, I try to drink some water an hour or two before, to make sure I'm hydrated.
Of course, if I'm already hungry, I just go anyway -- since I exercise at work, I don't have the temptation of eating dinner first. I find that, for me anyway, exercise actually supresses my hunger for a while. I usually don't feel like eating until at least half an hour after I'm done, even if I was hungry before.
I drink water all day at work so that's not a problem on the hydration front. I guess the key is to eat all day long but don't eat big portions at anytime. I'll have to get some healthy snacks to take to work.
Thanks for the advice.
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