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mom of the year I am not

29 Jun

Last week of the softball season, and I am a mixed basket of emotion about it. On one hand, I’m glad Lexi has only one more game to play. On the other, I’d like to play more.

Last night was an oddly-scheduled Monday night game; we usually play on Tuesday and Thursday.  Even so, it has been in my planner and on the calendar for weeks. 

We missed all but the last half of the last inning anyway. I got the time wrong. Not cool, Mom. Not cool at all.  

See, I’ve been obsesive all season long about double and triple checking to make sure we arrive on time. Last night, I screwed up. The game I had scheduled for 7:00 actually began at 6:00. Bummer! 

At least we showed up on the right field…and on the right night. Lexi did get a chance to bat. And she was totally cool about it otherwise.

Our last game is Thursday at 8:00. Will I be back to checking multiple schedules to ensure we don’t miss it? 

Did I really have to ask?

 
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new job day 2

22 Jun

So here I thought I had an office job. Yeah…partly, but not 100%. I kinda forgot that Bombardier has a service center right on site. And, well, we support all of the service centers. The guys here think we need to come crawl around on the plane. Not such a big deal. Unless you’re me…the girl who was looking forward to wearing dresses. 

I spent time today under a wing. Good thing I chose capris! 

Now all I need are MS Access and authority to make long distance calls. Tried to call a customer rep this afternoon and failed…miserably! Had to send email instead. Terrible way to make a first impression.

Ready for day #3. It can only get better!

 
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new adventures

19 Jun

At 8:30 on Thursday morning, another round (4th…5th? I’ve losy track) of layoffs was announced at work. I didn’t make this round unscathed.

Don’t panic but…as of Monday, I’ll no longer be a Liaison Engineer within the completions group.

I’m moving to customer support engineering where they fix in-service airplanes. It’s technically a lateral, but because there is some on-call time required (I’ll carry a phone about one week a month), there’s a pay premium that amounts to about 2.3%.

I won’t have to deal with furloughs either. 

And I’ll be back in a real cubicle farm…with air conditioning!

I had talked to the supervisor over there several weeks ago anyway. I was even working on updating my resume for her to hang onto until there was an opening. The layoff situation deleted the need for that formallity.

Yes, I think this will be a good move. Not as much hands-on, but definitely a more steady workload.

Yes, I am excited!

Yes, I am scared to death! 

 
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