Trunk or Treat - Success

We had our Trunk or Treat event at the Franklin Public Library today and brought in over 2,000 people. It's the biggest event I've ever organized but for some reason that fact is not sinking in. It was even bigger than the city's National Night Out. I think it's because - and I realized this today - I've finally created enough hugely successful events that it's become second nature to me and they don't even make me blink anymore.

My stress level never gets high and it doesn't even occur to me that what I'm doing is actually pretty cool. Which is why I've decided I have to write this achievement down, because it is pretty cool and kind of a big deal. My coworker told me I should be really proud of what I did today and while I was grateful for the compliment, it honestly doesn't even feel like I did anything out of the ordinary.

It reminds me of Charlotte telling me a month or two back that she sees me as a person who is always doing super amazing things, and she cited all the cool programs and events I do for the library. I never thought of those things as anything crazy before because I literally do them every day. It's just part of my job. And I guess now I'm at a point where I've done so many huge, successful events that they don't seem strange or stressful anymore either. I've just climbed my own professional latter one more step.

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