Holiday Shmoliday!

Despite being able to see the fireworks at New Years, which was great, and you can read about below, I didn't get much of a holiday. My company made a big move today to an office in Paddington, and I have been responsible for a fairly sizable videoconferencing, audio conferencing phones, and audio visual installation, as well as a new room booking system used for managing all of that. Today was go-live, but what that has meant is that I have worked my behind off all of those days leading up to this one. Last night I worked until 2 am to try to make sure that everything was working. It wasn't, in the end, but enough that I could put it off to today.
I only slept about an hour or two last night, as working 18 hours straight created so much adrenalin that it took me a couple hours to fall asleep. I was up at 6:30 to be in the office at 7 and move trash and tidy up, something I and my contractors had been too tired to do last night.
I definitely need a break. Big time. I will probably be solving remaining issues for the rest of this week, but expect to take of a week or two after that. It wasn't great for my son, though, since his school holidays finished today. Oh, well, maybe doing the indoor skydiving experience that I bought him for Christmas next weekend or the one after will make up for it.
It is interesting working so much. I don't mean like intellectually challenging, or fun, but one learns alot about their own character in pushing so hard. And I think that I still have a strong core, and a very positive attitude overall, and a massive desire to achieve goals. Some of the areas where I came up short were perhaps organisation. Overall, I have to say that I am pretty proud of what I have achieved. Actually, that is the other thing: I can say I achieved. Not my team, not the project, but me personally.
With a round of redundancies imminent (my bet is the 16th of January, and I put down £5 about a month ago on that), and my position formerly not wonderful in terms of vulnerability to these things, I feel like I have shown some of the most senior people in the company that I can and do perform (and have been, likewise, for the last 6 years, thank you very much), despite a very wrong attempt by a very poor IT manager to push me out last year (the fact that he was my boss at the time did not help matters, but that has now been taken care of). I needed this success for myself, and I need for this to be seen as a success by others. I think that both were achieved, and though that isn't in itself something to be proud of, I can definitely be proud of the project.
Now, back to bed!