My first day at work was good, if not a little overwhelming as most first days usually are.
My team feels smart, competent, athletic and a lot of fun. My manager is on Twitter, a definite first as most people I’ve worked for have yet to discover the Internet.
Congratulations to Michele for being selected by lottery for the Minnesota Fringe Festival. For some crazy reason, she’s decided it’s a good thing to write a one-woman show then actually debut it. Before an audience. Have I taught her nothing? Talent is for hidden and unrealized potential.
I tweet my daily blog posts and generate a fair amount of traffic from those links, so I make a true effort to visit bloggers who tweet theirs as well. This week, I discovered @MattChevy‘s Life Without Pants as he explored the reasons we started blogging and how our blogs have changed our lives. I left a comment, he actually answered it. Very cool.
Jane Devin wrote an extremely moving piece on Valentine’s Day and its compulsory traditions, how we’ve come to interpret this one day of love and consumerism. How sometimes our expressions can be both far-reaching and out of bounds.
She began yelling, which didn’t surprise me given the amount of stress I saw building but then, in the heat of anger, she told her son that he had “shit for brains”. My jaw dropped. I saw the boy’s eyes water. Ten minutes later, the storm was over, and the car was pulling out of the garage with two of the three kids in tow. Later, when I asked the mother – whom I was close to at the time – why she would say such a thing, and if she didn’t think she should apologize, she brushed my question off. “He knows I love him,” she said.
I sent an innocuous tweet into the ether about wanting my replacement earbuds like right now, and Bose, a company who actually searches for such things, answered me within seconds, asking for my order number. The next day? Package shipped, my headphones should be here today by the time I’m home from work. If they were hoping for a customer for life, they got one.
40 days until Ehren’s first birthday. Biblical parallels and chocolate cake in comments…
Well, to start, Super Duper Congratulations on the new job. Here’s hoping it keeps you mind growing and your horizon expanding.
I got a chuckle about the request for comments about chocolate cake and have to wonder if you’ve kept Ehren “cake free” his first year. It’s something we’ve done oddly enough with each of our kids. Honestly, there’s no real reason why other than wanting their birthday cake to be extra special.
So you’ve got the job, camp plans seem to coming along quite well and should solidfy soon, and dog training progresses (poop on the floor aside). What’s next? Inquiring minds want to know.
–Orion
@Orion, next up: bringing in a professional organizer to help combat our humble but hazardous mess. Thx for the congrats! Oh and great idea about the cake. I don’t think Ehren’s had any yet.
Thank you thank you for the linkage. I loved Jane’s post, too. You are wonderful. In case you were wondering.
@Voix, I actually had been pondering my wonderfulness. Thanks for letting me know! You are, in case you were wondering, incredible.
@fringes, Oh stop. I’m just a girl who can’t make up her mind about what she wants to do, so consequently does everything. You don’t even want to know what my calendar looks like. Glorious and terrifying.
Here is some fellowship: My friend AsianJamacian recently found your blog and went on and on about how much she loves your writing!
Party like the rock star you are,
Tex
Congratulations on a fantabulous first day at work!
Tex, tell your friend AJ she is welcome to leave a comment telling me that herself. I don’t bite hard.