Here it is 3:00 P.M. and I am home already from work! How cool is that! Today I got in there and started to get everything set up to work. I felt confident in the first part of my assignment...but of course at first I could not get on the Internet site from which I needed to work. So, I called the Techno Nerd and got his mailbox. I left him a message and tried some other things on my own. Then, I decided to call Rock. After all, that is one of the advantages to having a super computer geek for a son-in-law. Not only that, but he works for the same company that I just began working for...just in a different state. Anyway, I called Rock and he asked me questions that I could not answer. He was on the road, so he said he would call me back. While waiting for him to call, I remembered my supervisor told me she had put the website in my favorites. Ya! I could get right to work. When Rock called I was up and running. It was nice to talk with him anyway. He is a good son-in-law and I love him. He takes good care of his mother-in-law even if I do invoke the PICNIC (problem in chair, not in computer) Law quite often. He is always helpful and never makes fun of my stupid mistakes!
I was on a roll. I was finished with that part of the project before noon! Now, I was hoping I could remember just exactly what it was that I was supposed to be doing with the next part. I had taken notes, but hurriedly and did not practice the Excel skills much. I took a deep breath and started in....hey, I did remember. I got started a little slow, hoping and praying I was doing this right. But then I had been told that the "undo" button was my best friend and since I had copied the spreadsheet to my desktop there really was no way to mess it up. My intention was to eat lunch then start the other project, but I didn't. About an hour or so later I was almost finished....then I would eat lunch.
About that time a car pulled up in front and it was Susan's realtor. She and the Square Dancer are looking for an "our" house. The realtor was out of breath and excited. Shortly after Susan came in and was equally excited. She had found a house. While they were doing whatever realtor's do to make an offer on a house, I finished my project. After the realtor left I asked Susan if she had eaten and she said, "No." When I asked her if she wanted to go get something to eat she asked if I wanted to drive through somewhere and she would take me to look at the house she had found. Sure! Let's go.
Well, the house was beautiful and just what they both need and what they both want! I hope it works out. On the drive back to the office she asked me about how the project was going and if she needed to help me with anything. I told her that I had actually finished it while she and the realtor were working on the house papers. She said, "Well, you can go home then." Did I hear her right?! Can you do that...just go home when you are finished? When I asked her that question she asked me if I was finished. I told her yes, and she said, "Go home." Wow, it was true. You can do that!
Thursday, September 18, 2008
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CHA-CHING!
For those of you who are too young to remember....this is all Doogie Houser's fault...all this blogging! Doogie Houser was young doctor, just a boy really. He graduated from High School at too young an age and then attended medical school graduating at the top of his class. But genius had nothing to do with how he related to the world socially so he suffered the same things that "normal" teenagers did. He would come home from his work at the hospitol and put his words to computer keys and keep track of his daily thoughts and happenings much like most teenagers did in diaries or journals. So...here we are.
I have been contemplating this blog thing for awhile, but just today finally decided to make it a reality.
Much of life is changing right now, so why not try some new things along with all the other changes.
I don't really like change very much. They say that becomes more common the older you get, and I suppose it is true. I like routine, status quo, the way things used to be. And yet, one of my favorite quotes is, "If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got!" That means if you don't want what you always got....you have to change!
So, change we do. Right now, Thor, the love of my life, is going through change on his job. What he is doing he has done before, but not for almost a decade. At first, when he told me he felt like an old dinosaur and would have to learn "how to" all over again I thought he was being silly. Until I was interviewing for jobs after 16 years and had to learn "how to" all over again. He was not being silly at all. He was being honest. There is a great deal of difference in approaching a task when you are fresh out of college and ready to take on the world idealistically and doing so when you are aware of reality. But...I am happy to say, Thor has come through with flying colors, as I knew he would, and doing a great job...at his "new" old job!
Our son, the Bohemian, has just taken a new job assignment in a new town. He has been struggling with living without his family until they can sell their house or at least rent it and move to his new location with him. It has been difficult and is getting really tiresome after five months. But, there does seem to be some parting of the clouds. The Bohemian, the Busy Bee, Mr. Golden Curls, and the Lil' Spitfire are all looking forward to the one change that will bring them all under one roof!
Our daughter, Lizardbreath, and her husband, the Rock have just returned home after being gone for nearly a month attending a business convention in Nevada and visiting Thor and I in Oklahoma. Today they are having a Princess Birthday Party for The Princess. She will be six on Tuesday! That does not seem possible. And yet another change is occuring....we are not able to be there! This is the first birthday we have missed for any of our 6 grandchildren....and I hope it will be the last. But gas prices and the fact that I will be leaving for Colorado with Tickle Sister on Tuesday made the trip impractical, especially since they were just here last week. But, we called her today and the Princess said it was alright, she got the present we sent her.
Well, time for another change. I must leave this computer and go keep Thor company....I know he is just waiting for me to add conversation and comments to his television viewing pleasure.....What?!
I have been contemplating this blog thing for awhile, but just today finally decided to make it a reality.
Much of life is changing right now, so why not try some new things along with all the other changes.
I don't really like change very much. They say that becomes more common the older you get, and I suppose it is true. I like routine, status quo, the way things used to be. And yet, one of my favorite quotes is, "If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got!" That means if you don't want what you always got....you have to change!
So, change we do. Right now, Thor, the love of my life, is going through change on his job. What he is doing he has done before, but not for almost a decade. At first, when he told me he felt like an old dinosaur and would have to learn "how to" all over again I thought he was being silly. Until I was interviewing for jobs after 16 years and had to learn "how to" all over again. He was not being silly at all. He was being honest. There is a great deal of difference in approaching a task when you are fresh out of college and ready to take on the world idealistically and doing so when you are aware of reality. But...I am happy to say, Thor has come through with flying colors, as I knew he would, and doing a great job...at his "new" old job!
Our son, the Bohemian, has just taken a new job assignment in a new town. He has been struggling with living without his family until they can sell their house or at least rent it and move to his new location with him. It has been difficult and is getting really tiresome after five months. But, there does seem to be some parting of the clouds. The Bohemian, the Busy Bee, Mr. Golden Curls, and the Lil' Spitfire are all looking forward to the one change that will bring them all under one roof!
Our daughter, Lizardbreath, and her husband, the Rock have just returned home after being gone for nearly a month attending a business convention in Nevada and visiting Thor and I in Oklahoma. Today they are having a Princess Birthday Party for The Princess. She will be six on Tuesday! That does not seem possible. And yet another change is occuring....we are not able to be there! This is the first birthday we have missed for any of our 6 grandchildren....and I hope it will be the last. But gas prices and the fact that I will be leaving for Colorado with Tickle Sister on Tuesday made the trip impractical, especially since they were just here last week. But, we called her today and the Princess said it was alright, she got the present we sent her.
Well, time for another change. I must leave this computer and go keep Thor company....I know he is just waiting for me to add conversation and comments to his television viewing pleasure.....What?!
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Yea to a successful day at work! And double yea to living when the work is done!
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