New Year's Eve

Here we find ourselves again, sending out the old and ringing in the new. Counting our blessings and trying to decide what we want to work to improve upon in the coming year.

I can honestly say that all I've resolved to do in the last few years is find a new job and get settled in it and attempt to resume a life I never could have imagined would be interrupted. It's too soon to say where this new job will lead, but it's a) a job, b) new and c) mine.

Tonight when the clock strikes 12:00 a.m. I will count my blessings and resolve to count them some more. When you've worked so hard for so long and hold that elusive "thing" in your hands, everything else is the diaper on the Baby New Year.

Does This Thing Come With Instructions?

These two "Instructions" have come up on my Life's Little Instruction Calendar and I wanted to share them with you:

December 22nd:
Change what you can.
Accept what you can't.
Live peacefully with all that's left.

December 29th:
This coming year make time for good books, good food, good blogs and good friends.

(OK, I added the "good blog" part and I am hoping my blog falls into the 'good' category.)

In Between

I hope you are all having a great holiday and enjoying this week between the chaos of Christmas and the chaos of a New Year.

I'm just taking a little break but I'll be back strong in 2011, if not before.

The Job Gods Have A Sense Of Humor, But I'm Not Laughing

I had been out of work for almost 3 years and now, the day before Christmas Eve, everyone I know – and apparently everyone I don’t know – is home, snuggled in their beds, visions of sugarplums dancing in their heads.

I, however, am sitting at my desk drinking my coffee with visions of meetings and events in my head.

Fa, la, la, la, la . . .

Life Is A Revolving Door

I started my new job a week ago and one of the women in my office is leaving the company tomorrow.

Even though we do totally different jobs, it's the yin and the yang, the Circle of Life. She's excited about her new opportunity and seems more than ready to leave my new company. I'm excited about being at this company that she's so anxious to leave.

The next time you go through a revolving door, look at the people going in the opposite direction of you. They may be headed where you've just left or they may have left where you're headed. And if you keep pushing that door, you just might end up where you started or at the very least where someone else just was.

Give Me A Large Rock And A Chisel

You know you've been out of work a long time when you go to order office supplies to order a notebook to write things in with a pen and computers come up. Same with tablets.

Yup, That's My Name On My Office Door

I am struggling with a major case of uncomfortableness in the new job and I'm trying to analyze what is going on. Is it just returning to the work force after so much time? Is it the fact that I am, for the first time in my career, not the only Meeting Planner in the company? Have I lost my confidence? Is it because we're so close to the holidays? Is it because I don't feel like working at all?

Honestly, I don't think it's any of these things and yet I suppose it could be all of these things. The only thing I know for sure, Oprah, is that I GOT the job and these people seem to have their act together so I'm gonna go with the fact that they made a smart, smart choice.

I've already got the job. Now it's time for me to see what they see in me. And prove us all right.