You and another person make great partners, but you haven't been getting along too well lately. Could it be time for a break? If this is a work partnership, talk to the higher ups and see if you can start working with new people for a while. Tell them that it will help you develop new professional and interpersonal skills and they'll figure ( Read more... )

Just because you said goodbye to someone doesn't mean that they still can't inspire or affect your future in a positive way. You take them with you wherever you go, and they will always be a part of you. So try to switch from sadness to gratitude that you ever got to know them in the first place! Your feelings are important to honor, but you cannot ( Read more... )

And I'm totally okay with that, as long as TW and SY have my back. Actually, even if only SY has my back, I'll still be okay with it.

Customer 1st!!

Let the fireworks begin...

It started out with breakfast at Frisch's with the team, a bonus check, and my boss telling us to take off the rest of the day. It later included some fresh air, a nap, and some Ryan Gosling viewing. And it wrapped up with an ET evening, complete with beer, a yummy fish sandwich, fun chit-chat with one of my favorite people ever ("You do smell like ( Read more... )

We closed today at $25.56 -- in the time I've been with the company, I've NEVER seen our stock price that high. Even more exciting is that the work MY team is doing is helping that stock price rise. Seriously. Like, we're having a direct effect on how well the company performs. That is so mind-blowing... it's difficult to even wrap my mind around. ( Read more... )

Half days for this week, per my surgeon, and then possibly full days beginning the first full week of February. As boring as it has been during recovery, now that I'm starting to feel better and now that I'm able to move around a lot easier, I'd prefer to not go back to work. LOL This is why I need to marry a very rich man who doesn't mind having a ( Read more... )

Which is funny, but still not as good as my porn name, which is "Lucky Manderlay". In any case...

I've forgotten how busy the JJB gets during big events, like *NSYNC-related album drops, tour kick-offs, and award shows. It is SUPER slow tonight, so I'm assuming that is due to the Golden Globe Awards. Argh.

On a GG-related note, I'm not a huge fan of ( Read more... )

"Keeping the Faith" is on Comedy Central. It's such a cute movie... I wish I had caught all of it, instead of the last 20 minutes. It repeats tomorrow morning, so if I remember, I'm going to record it. I think I might have already recorded it at some point, but I'm as bad about labeling my DVDs as I am about labeling my CDs, so who knows where the ( Read more... )

No one was ordering today in the office, and Nicole apparently thought I was a mind-reader and knew that Lisa wanted to take us out to lunch. I didn't feel like being social, though, and I didn't feel like sitting in the cold, window-less office all day either, so I decided to come home for lunch and some reading. It only took me 8 minutes to get ( Read more... )

It is VERY difficult to keep the attention of 65 people who are worried they won't get flights out of Cincinnati as scheduled. In past work events, we've had many obstacles and mini-fiascos to handle -- speakers running long, participants taking 25 minute breaks instead of 15, shuttle buses breaking down, etc. -- but I can honestly say we've never ( Read more... )