Last week I COMPLETELY bombed when called on to talk for 2 minutes about a random topic. Really, I totally froze up for several seconds. It's better to work this stuff out now in a friendly environment than doing it in front of clients ( Read more... )

I went to my first Toasmasters meeting last week and I met some really nice people. I was a little to nervous to volunteer to get up and participate. I'm getting started on my 1st speech. It's supposed to be a get-to-know-me thing. It sounded easy when I read it, but now I know I'm totally over thinking it. Anyway, it has to be like 5 minutes ( Read more... )

I finally got around to updating my resume. Even if I don't end up sending it out, it made me think a lot. I sent it to a wonderful friend who works in HR. She is going to give me some advice to make it better. I think the format is way out dated, and I'm pretty sure the wording could use some work ( Read more... )

It seems like that's all I think about lately. I think it's because I'm so ready for the next phase of my professional life ( Read more... )

At the holiday party this year, I realized how much I love the people I work with. I've known some of them for over 10 years. During the party I noticed that Lance was over goofing off with some of the guys and having a really good time, too. I thought to myself, "I want to keep working with this group of people!" They're nice, funny, and total ( Read more... )

I had a dream last night that I had left a stack of money out on the counter knowing someone was coming over. I was like, "Oh it'll be OK." I went off on my merry way leaving this person in the house. Not sure who this guy was but he wasn't a close friend. It was just someone who's face I'd seen before out a shows and parties ( Read more... )

Sometimes I feel like there is so much to know for my job and technology is changing so fast that my brain is going to explode.

So much studying to do to keep up lately!

I found out last week from an anonymous source that the owner of my company is looking to sell. I'm not supposed to know this, and I think only a few people in the office have any idea ( Read more... )

I decided I need to follow through on taking care of myself. I started Tai Chi classes. The 8 week series ends next week. I prepaid all the classes to make myself go. I had to miss once for work, but I think I would have missed more if it wasn't already paid for. I made a point of planning around it. I'm going to miss it during the two week ( Read more... )

I like my job, but it's been driving me crazy. There's a lot of disorganization in the side of the business I'm on. I have 4 regular clients who keep me about as busy as I want to be. We have two visible projects that have started up, and it's starting to look like I'm also going to be expected to do a lot of nights and weekends until February ( Read more... )