A post for no reason at all
I don’t write entries for LJ as often as I’d like… and usually when I do it’s to post about something significant that’s happened. I love reading though about my friends’ daily lives, and so I thought I’d post a more mundane entry and just give a general update on what’s going on in my world.
Work is going well. And, I post here so infrequently, it’s completely possible that a lot of the people reading might not know what my work is. I still work at Procter & Gamble, but I changed jobs in August and I’m now the Digital Marketing Manager for Actonel (www.actonel.com), the osteoporosis medication. So, mostly, that means I do all the advertising for Actonel that’s on the web - our website, WebMD, Google ads, and all of that. I’ve only been at it a couple months, but I like it so much more than my old role. Lots more interactions with people, and more high-level work instead of field-level design. I like it a lot - now I want to feel like I’m actually good at it.
Home and family are wonderful as always. Ben and I are happy, though I suppose we could be happier if we lived somewhere other than Cincinnati. But P&G is a great gig, and makes it difficult to leave. We put up our Christmas tree this week… it’s all blue and white… and it even has a few presents under it, so that’s nice. We also will be visiting my family this upcoming weekend for our annual Cookie Day - which, really, we should rename Four, maybe Five, Days of Cookies. Ben and I started making the candied buckeyes yesterday, and we’ll continue today. Friday will be form cookies with my mom, and then Saturday (and maybe a little bit of Sunday) will be the rest of the cookies (probably about 10-15 different kinds) with my mom, Ember & Matt (sister & bro-in-law). With my dad randomly mocking us throughout the day. Good times.
Tower work is going well too. Registration for Anni couldn’t have gone better. There are some really fun people on the waitlist, and that makes me sad, but the process worked just as planned. Committee chairs are almost solidified, and then we’ll be able to get down to the real planning. \o/ Fall Ball is good too, thrilled with the contract, just need to get my signed copy back and then I’ll be able to start posting details. Then we’ll start with registration and all of that after we get back from Anni.
Hm. Cat is happy. House is doing pretty good. My mom & dad came down the Saturday after thanksgiving to help me fix a leak in the basement. It was a comedy of errors as almost all plumbing jobs are, but in the end my dad and I were extremely happy with the results, and consider what we’ve learned may result in a new day of plumbing. I’m stupidly excited about it, and I really think I might be able to fix plumbing stuff in the house on my own in the future. Someone else can handle electrical problems though. I might be an engineer, but I just don’t dig current.
Let’s see. Friends. I miss my WoT friends so much. I know we’ll never live all in the same city or anything, but it’s hard to see the people you like most only two or three times a year. I know you can all relate.
I’ll try to post more frequently. Maybe I’ll do some of those little quizzes or personality inventories. I love hearing about your lives, so I’ll try to do better at sharing the interesting parts of mine.
Work is going well. And, I post here so infrequently, it’s completely possible that a lot of the people reading might not know what my work is. I still work at Procter & Gamble, but I changed jobs in August and I’m now the Digital Marketing Manager for Actonel (www.actonel.com), the osteoporosis medication. So, mostly, that means I do all the advertising for Actonel that’s on the web - our website, WebMD, Google ads, and all of that. I’ve only been at it a couple months, but I like it so much more than my old role. Lots more interactions with people, and more high-level work instead of field-level design. I like it a lot - now I want to feel like I’m actually good at it.
Home and family are wonderful as always. Ben and I are happy, though I suppose we could be happier if we lived somewhere other than Cincinnati. But P&G is a great gig, and makes it difficult to leave. We put up our Christmas tree this week… it’s all blue and white… and it even has a few presents under it, so that’s nice. We also will be visiting my family this upcoming weekend for our annual Cookie Day - which, really, we should rename Four, maybe Five, Days of Cookies. Ben and I started making the candied buckeyes yesterday, and we’ll continue today. Friday will be form cookies with my mom, and then Saturday (and maybe a little bit of Sunday) will be the rest of the cookies (probably about 10-15 different kinds) with my mom, Ember & Matt (sister & bro-in-law). With my dad randomly mocking us throughout the day. Good times.
Tower work is going well too. Registration for Anni couldn’t have gone better. There are some really fun people on the waitlist, and that makes me sad, but the process worked just as planned. Committee chairs are almost solidified, and then we’ll be able to get down to the real planning. \o/ Fall Ball is good too, thrilled with the contract, just need to get my signed copy back and then I’ll be able to start posting details. Then we’ll start with registration and all of that after we get back from Anni.
Hm. Cat is happy. House is doing pretty good. My mom & dad came down the Saturday after thanksgiving to help me fix a leak in the basement. It was a comedy of errors as almost all plumbing jobs are, but in the end my dad and I were extremely happy with the results, and consider what we’ve learned may result in a new day of plumbing. I’m stupidly excited about it, and I really think I might be able to fix plumbing stuff in the house on my own in the future. Someone else can handle electrical problems though. I might be an engineer, but I just don’t dig current.
Let’s see. Friends. I miss my WoT friends so much. I know we’ll never live all in the same city or anything, but it’s hard to see the people you like most only two or three times a year. I know you can all relate.
I’ll try to post more frequently. Maybe I’ll do some of those little quizzes or personality inventories. I love hearing about your lives, so I’ll try to do better at sharing the interesting parts of mine.