Changes

Just wanted to write a quick note about how much my life has changed from thos time last year.

A year ago I had to choose between buying food or paying bills. I was so depressed and stressed about the future, living with my mom and her tweeker boyfriend..

Fast forward a year; I have my own place, a steady full time position, health insurance, and Im getting ready to go to Las Vegas tomorrow for my job. How crazy to think things could improve so much in such a short time span.

Life really is beautiful, I have to remind myself all the time of how lucky I am.

A new year already?

It feels like 2011 went by so fast! 

So much changed for me over the last year, it seems unreal. Lots of good, and I am so thankful for that. I think I have finally re-found work that I enjoy. I know that management in foodservice is difficult, but hey if you know me you know I am too hard headed to turn down a challenge. 

I feel like I want to water this seed and see how big it grows. I am not intimidated by it, in fact I am intrigued! I want to further educate myself in management and have fun with it!

Heres to a great year ahead and making the best of every situation put in front of us. Life is what you make it!

Day off?

In the last entry I wrote about the new position at work and how I feel I have many obstacles to overcome; today is no different. This week I got two days off, well kind of. In my days off I have had to call in various orders and speak to different vendors, work on the schedule, and speak with my "assistant" (don't worry, we"ll get there) managers several times.

When weighing out the pros and cons of if I wanted to take the position I already knew that I would have to work long hours and lots of days during the season, but didn't really anticipate being so busy during this slow time of the year. I wish that I could just hold a staff meeting and say "thanks for nothing, here is your final check. Have a nice life." I know that essentially I can let everyone go because we are an "at will employer" but I also know that I have no real reason for this- yet. I have started accepting applications, which is pretty unheard of for this time of year, and plan to start calling and setting up interviews next week. There will be SO many changes that I want to have a fresh, eager, trainable, moldable staff- something I don't have now.

My daughter was asking all day today and yesterday if I would take her to my work, and I just really couldn't bring myself to step foot in there. I knew I would start working and it would distract from my precious time with her. I realized that I will have to adjust my schedule big time so that I can make the most of the time in each day. I will have to dedicate a few hours of one of my days off each week to getting my work done so that I can spend the rest of the two (hopefully) days OFF.

Well, I certainly don't feel done venting and expressing all my jumbled thoughts, but I'm off to watch my baby niece! :)