My new team and I will have our first Team Dinner tomorrow. I hope everybody will be there. Thinking of the food that we are going to eat tomorrow, I’m starting to grave for some stone crab. I hope wherever we will go, I could find one.

I always come across to sites that would invite me to apply here and there. Sometime I get to entertain the thought. “Why not try”. But then I have second thoughts as well. But I am not closing my doors. Maybe, I can already start submitting resumes to these sites. Who knows I might find something that I have been looking for. Better job and better pay? Nah! For me, I am happy where I am now. I’m not yet quitting. Not this time.

Tomorrow we are going to have our first Strategic Planning with our new SOM. We will be going to Cordova. As I checked my email, I saw the itinerary for the 2 days activity. First day: it’s going to be a whole day conference. Where is R&R (rest and recreation)? I asked my self, silently of course. But then I had to think again. If we are running a business, we should be doing this conference because this is important. Small businesses needs business plan consultants, how much more a big company like this. So, I rephrased my thoughts. At least we are going out…Would it be better to just stay at the 12th floor conference room instead? NO way…

I am thinking of a good fallback in case I decide to resign from my job. Working in a call center is never easy. No matter what your position is. I don’t take calls, but still there are a lot of deliverables to meet. You don’t have any idea of how hard my job is. So I don’t dream of being here forever. I wanted to have my own business one day. I wanted to be an Event Organizer or a Wedding Planner. Weddings are always special to me. I know how it feels when you prepare for a wedding. Been there, done that. So I can totally relate to future brides. The anxiety you get while preparing for your big day. You worry about budget. As much as possible you want to have a bargain of almost everything. But you get into a dilemma between cheap and good quality. You worry about where to get cheap wedding invitations, tokens, flowers, choir, band and so many more. Not just weddings. You think about how worried those young debutants are when their 18th birthday is on its way. A lot of events happen in a person’s life and my passion is to be part of it and feel the fulfillment to see those happy, contended faces at the end of the day.

One of my previous post I mentioned that my house help went home to her hometown because her grandfather died.  She said it will be for 3 days only.  Thinking about my 3 miserable days made me scared already.  but lo and behold, she is not coming back…Her parents would not allow her because she has to take care of her newly widowed grandmother.  So the 3 miserable days extended to 9 days already.  During the weekend, I a general cleaning in the house.  Did I just do that?  Amazingly I did.  Then I cam across these gifts that I got from my agents.  2 was given to me as an appreciation on 2 different years and 1 was sort of a personalized made birthday card.  I read it again.  It felt me happy to read those messaged that they appreciate me. (that’s what it says in the message…lol).  I grabbed my cam and took shots of these tokens of appreciation I got.  Though this might be late, but knowing my agents value what I taught them, it made me feel good.  Made me even forgot that my body was already aching of moving things around the house.  To all who has been under me, from day 1 until you have been moved to another LOB, or promoted,I would like to say Thank you too for making me feel valued.  It means a lot.