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General by The Blonde Diaries on November 11th, 2008 3:53 pm
Ok so maybe I haven’t quite killed my blackberry but I did wipe it last night because I didn’t realize my caps lock key was locked down thereby allowing me to enter the incorrect password not once but five times which then will wipe my blackberry clean and start me all over. I have been fighting with the configuration off and on all day since I was able to set everything up myself last week when I got my new blackberry fairly easy. Today, it has not been easy at all. I have exhausted all outlets to try on my own and I think I will have to give in and call tech support. Luckily, this isn’t as bad as the time I called in asking how to turn the numbers off on my letter keys but I think setting up a blackberry should be fairly easy and joins the ranks of the number/letter keys.
And the ironic part of all of this, I can’t get my caps lock key back. Everything is now in lower case even when using caps lock.
I really need to get up early tomorrow to ensure that I make it to work on time. I have to be at “work” for 8:15 which is almost an hour before I normally go to work each day. I just cannot sleep right now. I am excited and nervous at the same time for tomorrow to come. You see, a few weeks ago, an email went out to the entire office here looking for females to volunteer to be a mentor for a day to young high school students. The program is being co-sponsored by Junior Achievement and a larger company here in town who’s name has become mud in the past few years through no fault of their own. So I signed up to be a mentor. I am to discuss one-on-one with my assigned mentee goals, career ideas, resumes, interviewing, college applications, and in general how I got to where I am today. I think it will be fun to help a young woman out and give her some insight as I know I would have appreciated the same thing at that age because deciding what you want to do for the rest of your life and how to accomplish it at 16 and 17 years old is really intimidating and overwhelming. I just hope that I am able to connect and inspire my mentee tomorrow. Please send good thoughts my way. 
My training is finally over and I am at home relaxing. I went out yesterday to our training happy hour then met up with some friends after and I forgot to remind myself that I am not in college any more. It wasn’t really all that bad but I am tired and cranky today. I think I might go see if Maury is on and if it is paternity test results day and just mellow out for a while. One of my favorite managers at work is leaving and her happy hour is tonight (don’t worry it will be water for me tonight!) so I need to rest up and wish her a proper goodbye. It kinda surprised me when I heard she was leaving. I knew she wasn’t going to be a lifer but then she got engaged to a partner and figured she was just going to get sucked in and never leave but apparently not. She has a great job opportunity so it should work out really well for her - Director of Financial Reporting at an energy company (ie upstream oil company). I can only hope that I can find that job in another year or two.
I’ve been attending my mandatory Continuing Professional Education training class at work this week. I am learning how to be a “senior associate” and lead a team of staff. So far we have been focusing on soft skills alot which has been great and I have been learning alot about myself. Today I learned that I have an adaptive attitude when it comes to handling changes and situations at work. I also learned that I am a “green” in the world of SDI which is a similar test to the Meyers-Briggs personality test except this one focuses on your “work” personality. Basically I am Analytical person who has to watch out for my cautious, methodical, and persevering attitudes which can turn into being overly suspicious, rigid, nit picky, and stubborn. It really fit me to a T both at work and in my home life. It is good to know what my strengths are and how to watch out so that they don’t turn negative. I have found this training to be really helpful in understanding myself, my management style, and how to deal with different personalities.
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General by The Blonde Diaries on August 26th, 2008 9:05 pm
Every now and then I get into an anti-social mood but it usually doesn’t last more than a day or two. Lately though, it has been dragging out and encompassing all areas of my life: work, family, and friends. Nothing major took place to trigger a full blown anti-social mood but I think just a lot of little things have piled up and resulted in this. I find myself more bored at work by the minute. This new role has me in a more managerial role and not a doer role which is quite an adjustment. I’m just not sure what I should be doing and what I shouldn’t be doing. Over the past year and a half my core group of friends here in Houston have started to splinter. It’s mainly attributed to a few people whining and complaining all the time because they are miserable and unhappy but not wanting to change which makes them unbearable to be around. So there are groups formed and you can’t get everyone together as one large group - just small groups. So that is kinda sucking.
So I am left with this feeling of not wanting to do anything or talk to anyone. I’ve even sorta avoided my blog in a weird anti-social way. I realize none of this is healthy nor am I really looking for any advice or thoughts on the matter. I know what I need to do is branch out, take a fresh look at work, and get more involved and meet people at work and outside of work and everything will shape up. Unfortunately, I am an introvert so it will take a little time and effort on my side to get there but I am going to start by dragging my butt to the gym tonight and to the happy hour on Thursday. Figure I gotta start somewhere and some time so might as well start now.
