Friday, July 30, 2010

Goodbye July

That super clever rhyme of a title just made me think that I haven’t written you any poems recently. But don’t get your hopes too high, it isn’t going to happen today either.
July has been an inspirational month for me in the world of ice cream sandwiches. It also served as a reminder than not all inspiration is good. Ginger cookies with lemon ice cream = good, chocolate chip cookies with coffee ice cream = good, peanut butter cookies with chocolate chip ice cream = good, peanut butter cookies rolled in salt with chocolate chip ice cream = I’m still believing that this had the potential of being wonderful.
At work my position is changing, unfortunately no one has clued me in to what it is changing to. I do know that I’m still the Ambassador of Goodwill. In that role I run a scholarship program for students that are serving in their communities. We are supposed to award one a month but we were on hold for 2009 and the first half of 2010 so we’re playing catch-up and in July we gave four. My boss and I screen all the applicants first and then call in the winners for interviews with some of our staff. It’s a pretty neat program and since my boss and I are very like-minded on some things we are able to help out some very cool people. I really like the interviews, they are a great way for people in the office to be exposed to those in need and many candidates have a strong Christian testimony. Another great part of my job is yesterday I re-organized my boss’s files. They are now color coordinated; I forgot how gratifying it is to organize files.
Upcoming events:
From September 4th to 20th I’ll be back in Nicaragua. I’m excited to take the time off work and to see people and things. I’m sure more details will follow about that.
Tomorrow night the Roller Derby is in Richmond. My friend Keri invited me to go with her, she probably just wants to use me for my un-fancy car and those cardio-kick boxing classes I took at Davis.
Today is casual day and afternoon snack day at work.
August plans are up in the air, maybe I’ll hear from you.

Thursday, July 15, 2010

life unexpected

I, surprisingly enough, don’t have a lot to say right now. But today is the designated day to send out an update so I will fill you in on two anecdotes from my week.
On Monday I was reminded why I never want to be a homeowner. I live at my parents’ currently and I have very little home responsibility. Well my parents were gone for a few days and my dad told me to make sure I turn off the sprinklers if I was going to park in the driveway because we have well water and if it dries on your car it is a mini-disaster. Well, you see, I remembered on my way home. But then when I pulled up to the house I had to bring in the garbage cans and bring in the mail and bring in the 6 burritos that my cousin was getting rid of and I got distracted. Tuesday morning at 6:40 I heard the sprinklers outside my window so I jumped out of my bed and threw on some sandals and turned them off. They had already thoroughly drenched my car s then I had to wash off the well water with city water. I guess I am the crazy person on the block that washes her car in her pajamas before 7am.
Last week I was off work. I saw quite a few people that get this little piece of spam. You are great. Now I am back to work. Yesterday I had a meeting with one of my bosses to keep him updated on the projects we have pending. He is very intense. I’ve been working for the company for almost a year and about 3 months ago he decided we should work more together. I am pretty good now at not being caught off guard and answering him confidently. Yesterday he asked me how many people I go to church with and if I know the pastor, I stammered out some answer and most likely he now thinks I’m in a cult. He wanted to know if I wanted to head up a service project at my church based on a book he recently had me read that I enjoyed. I said I’d think about it, I didn’t want to tell him what the likelihood is of a semi-inspirational service project getting approved. To some people this paragraph will make perfect sense, and you’ll understand my predicament. Others of you will have no idea what I’m talking about and that’s OK.
Lunch is over.
What’s going on with you?

Thursday, July 1, 2010

welcome to july!

I like July. Tomorrow at work we’re having a BBQ for the 4th and I’m taking next week off. Today I get to redecorate the bulletin board in the kitchen. I like doing that; it puts my years of high school leadership to good use.

June on the other hand was a little rough work-wise. I think on a scale of 1 to 10, with 1 meaning nothing goes how it is supposed to and 10 being everything going according to plan it would be about a 6. The problem with making mistakes constantly is I have to go back and fix them. Doing everything twice takes a lot more time than doing things correctly the first time. At first the mistakes really could be blamed on other people but looking back (especially the past two weeks) quite a few were completely my fault. Really I can’t blame anyone for me missing the big red warning on the Hilton website that said my credit card was about to be charged and the reservations are unchangeable. Thankfully God is gracious (and so are the people in hotel and airline customer service).

Last time I wrote about bringing in snacks to work and people not understanding the snacks were soccer mom classics. The next week there was another World Cup game (USA vs. Algeria) so I made rice krispie treats. My boss asked me what they were. I told him and his reaction very clearly gave away the fact that he had never heard of them. Actually I’d put money on the fact that he hasn’t heard of the cereal either. Another lady asked me if they were those things people make with marshmallow fluff. I guess rice krispie treat isn’t in her vocabulary either.

Other life news.

I think things are going well. My life is becoming more balanced. I enjoy doing un-work related things but they are less entertaining to write about.

The girl from work that ignored me last time I asked if she wanted to hang out after work changed her mind so we hung out on Monday and it was really good. I can add her to my list of new friends, I’m up to 4.

My lunch break is almost over I’d better be on my way.