1) Enthusiasm and dedication are the most important qualities for a new employee to possess.
2) Try not to let the negative or pessimistic attitude of your coworkers rub off on you.
3) Remember your core values, and never, never forget them. Write them down. Display them somewhere visible or make note in your planner.
4) Never let anyone try to make you more "tech savvy" than you're comfortable with. It's OK to have a planner.
5) When you feel stressed out, take a deep breath. Seriously. Realize that it's not life and death. If it is life and death, well then, you may be in trouble, but there's always someone to lean on.
6) Thank your support system for loving you.
7) Thank your coworkers for helping you out when you needed it, and for understanding that you're not perfect.
8) Realize there will be growing pains at the beginning of any new job. Give it a chance, but also have the courage to know when you're in over your head and need help.
9) Ask for help.
10) Say your prayers and be thankful for all you have. There's always, always someone who is worse off than you.
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Visits and visitors
I did some traveling to New Mexico at the beginning of the year. I saw some sights and met the parents. Not scary at all. Great people. The weather was all over the place, snowing one day, sunshining the next. Talk about wide open spaces. What a refreshing break.
White Sands, New Mexico on Valentine's Day.
Oh, I don't remember the name of this small town near Las Cruces, but I think this is one of the oldest churches in New Mexico, or something like that ... great attention to detail, I know.
I remember being beyond cold. I think I had six layers on. Brrr.
The truck got stuck and the men tried everything to get it out of the bar ditch. Luckily, off in the distance, a tractor--wait, I think the machine is called a skid-something-or-other--was tooling around, and helped yank it out of the ditch. This was quite the ordeal. I wasn't sure if we were going to have to wait for the snow to melt in order to make it home!
A boy and his ranch. By the end of our visit, the snow had melted!
I went home, and Rocky managed to do some business in the NW, too. Naturally two of my college sisters (not real sisters, and not sorority sisters, but you know, sisters) drove down from the Emerald City to meet the man in my life. They hit it off, just as predicted.
He said "Cheese" and so we did ... in a big way! This photo was snapped at the Rose Garden in NW Portland. Emily and Katie. Two of the best.
I heard Em's boyfriend, Greg (affectionately known as "Dirt"), would be playing baseball at Rice University in Houston, so I made the little trek down to H-town to see him play. I got so excited and made him some baked goods (cake balls, to be exact), but I'm pretty sure due to the humidity and (unseasonably? maybe?) rather hot hot heat, I'm almost certain they melted by the time I handed them to G after the game. Oh well. Got to see the Cougs play in Texas. Always a treat. Loved heckling No. 45!
Batter up!
No doubt one of the best weekends of my time in Austin was Easter 2009. Katie and Mariel came for a visit, and we accomplished a checklist of essential Texas treats including, but not limited to: drive-thru beer barn shopping, barbecue-eating, Sixth Street party partaking, Tex-Mex Tuesday (or in this case Thursday) feasting at my neighborhood Maudie's restaurant, visiting the Brady ranch and riding, celebrating the risen Lord at Easter mass, gospel brunching at Stubb's, Lake Austin dockside lounging, Johnny Cash-themed Mean Eyed Cat bar-hopping, and oh yes, who can forget Don Juan breakfast taco eating at Juan in a Million!
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