Joshua has an imaginary friend who shows up every morning. His friend's name is Jeff and every morning, we need to put Jeff's jacket on first before Joshua will put his on. It is so darned cute. Useful too, b/c Jeff always gets into Daddy's truck in the morning, which some mornings Joshua doesn't want to do. Since Jeff is in the truck already ( Read more... )

They offered me everything I asked for plus some. Now my current company is trying to keep me. I've explained that I have made my decison, yet I got a phone call when I got home from work today, begging me to at least think about things over the weekend ( Read more... )

Joshua saw the dentist today- his teeth are healing but he has to wear the splints/epoxy for another two weeks just to give his teeth time to recover. He was fabulous at the dentist- even let the dentist use the water, polisher and suction thing without complaint ( Read more... )

No one else will understand, probably.

I now have two Parul's at my current job...

Where you feel like screaming ala Chris Tucker, "Do you understand the words that are coming out of my mouth?" Very frustrating day at work ( Read more... )

Joshua has had his first major injury- kind of. Tuesday night he got home from daycare and he was really cranky. He didn't want to eat anything and then told us that he had fallen at daycare and hurt his mouth. Look in his mouth and they look fine. He sticks his finger in his mouth and blood comes out. So we kind of flip him over and the back of ( Read more... )

Other than the severance package, the general frustration with how things were handled w/in the DMC, the moronic T5 that got fired before I left and big pay increase when I left, can someone remind me why I left Capital One? I'm trying to figure out if the reasons I left are still valid since I think I'm about to be presented with an offer.

Lots of things falling into place today. New opportunities internally at current job. Promising rumblings from executive that maybe they finally hear concerns.

On top of that, potential prospect from old company that sounds intruiging. Life is going well today.

It doesn't look like Todd and I will be relocating to Raleigh for at least another year. He's taken a job w/ HP up here- they made him an offer he couldn't refuse. It may be even longer, I'm not sure. I'm not too sad about it, because Todd has an incredible opportunity with a really good company. And a happy in job Todd = a Todd that is easier to ( Read more... )

Finally feel back to normal after the flu thing. Man, that knocked me on my butt for quite a while last week ( Read more... )