Monthly update

So, what's happened in the last month?

Well, I applied for an IT job where I've been temping. It's for desktop support, going out to people's desks and imaging machines, fixing things the Support Center can't fix, and helping users learn how to use their computers correctly.

I'm so good at it, the desktop tech in my building has asked me to help him get another department's computers set up and running because he's behind on his work. All I'm really doing is babysitting the machines as they image, then setting up the monitors, etc.

Here's the funny part. I hadn't even applied yet and a collegue sent a recommendation to the department manager. Then, when I told the VP I'm working for that I applied, she asked for the manager's name and his boss's name, and she fired off a recommendation for me. And the department manager I'm setting up the computers for tomorrow knows the hiring manager and is willing to send a recommendation for me helping them out.

If I don't get the desktop support job, the Support Center also needs people and would consider hiring me as well. One way or another I'm getting out of the admin world.

Meanwhile, next week Friday they interview four hopefuls for my replacement. See if they fare any better than the last four that interviewed and were all turned down.

In working for the VP, she had asked me to order a book. She thought the name was Hardball. So I searched and found two, one of them was Hardball for Women. Had that and another sent to work, wasn't what she was looking for - it was Moneyball.

I've been reading through Hardball for Women, and what an eye opener. I thought I understood gender communication differences after going through the Alison Armstrong material. Not even close.

Hardball for Women exactly explains what happened to my boss during the software licensing. As I read the book, I was dumbfounded by what the author, Pat Heim, talked about, and how much sense it made in retrospect to my own life. It also explains a lot about the current VP's behavior and my own reactions the first time I worked for her.

I would highly recommend this book to women who are having a hard time rising in the ranks or don't understand their male, and sometimes female, bosses.
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Life moves on at home. Cats are still having issues, even after we sat down with the animal communicator I work with. Charmin is so full of anxiety the only way she knows how to cope is to run away. I'm thinking I need to get really specific with the tapping and do the full gamut series to help her let go of the anxiety and fear.

I need to work on the full gamut series on me as well. I've really fallen off the wagon and am back on the sugar big time. It's like I got one part cleaned up, now another has popped up. So I'll take that on and deal with it.

Tai chi has become just as much about self defense as it is about tai chi. When protection came up for me, Frank started pulling out more self defense stuff and how to apply the moves in tai chi to those situations.

I mentioned to him last week that I wanted him to pull together a class for my kids. He's at least aware of it now (the Boy never told him when I asked about it over a year ago... !@#$%^&&!!) Especially now that the oldest started college this week, I would feel better if they had some awareness and a bit of practice in protecting themselves.

The photo safari day was a success. S drove the Benz she wants, I drove a Cadillac Escalade. Everything else I looked at was either too small or too big. Then we looked at her Tiffany's engagement and wedding rings. We stopped at Scheherazade and found my engagement ring - just need to swap out the 2 carat diamond for a sapphire and it's perfect.

Both of us needed reminding that a day like that should be an everyday thing. We both can easily manifest the little things, like a parking spot, things like that. The big stuff, or what feels like it should be big stuff, is what we have problems with. As the day went on, I realized that we need to make the "BIG" things into everyday things. That's how we