I'm Still Here!

I see that Amanda has returned to blogging. Welcome back! I'm still here, too. I know it's been awhile. I just figure you really don't want to here all the boring details of my life. I get up, go to work, come home, repeat. It's 4 weeks to the big office move to Baldwin Park. We'll be moving whether the building is finished or not (otherwise, we'll be on the street). Because we will have professional movers and they don't want anyone getting in their way, I will get TWO DAYS off work!! What on earth will I do? Any suggestions? All my friends will be working. I want to be productive and do something fun. I will have to come in on the weekend to help set everything up for business on Monday, so that rules out taking a long weekend trip. I suppose I could do an overnighter, but I am trying to save money.

Email Praise

I received the following email conversation last week:

From: Gabe Robertson (my team leader)
To: Steve Blevins (the Project Architect for this job; Amy Kushnir
Subject: Lee Roy Selmon's Bradenton

Steve Stanley sent me photos of the completed Bradenton store. He's says they are open and doing very well. I saved them to the photos directory under the job number (205394).
Gabe Robertson
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From: Steve
To: Gabe
Subject: RE: Lee Roy Selmon's Bradenton


Great work Gabe!
Thanks
Steve B.
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From: Gabe
To: Steve
CC: Amy; Jed Downs (company VP)
Subject: RE: Lee Roy Selmon's Bradenton


You should thank Amy. She's the one who did all the work.
Great job, Amy!
Gabe
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From: Steve
To: Amy
CC: Gabe, Jed
Subject: RE: Lee Roy Selmon's Bradenton


Thank you Amy for all your hard work and keeping an important client happy, like Outback.
Steve Blevins
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Needless to say, this made my day.

An Interesting Sight

Can you believe it? Two blogs in one day? But I just wanted to write about what I saw during my lunch hour.

I was driving down the road and in front of me were 3 identical black vans, each towing a small (identical) white trailor. I laughingly to myself, "hmmm, this looks like they're part of some secret government operation." I caught up with them in the other lane and noticed that they had U.S. Government plates labeled DHS and some combination of letters & numbers. I can only infer that they are from the Department of Homeland Security. It made me wonder what they were doing and where they were going.

Happy 5th of July!

I hope everyone had a wonderful Independance Day. I just have to say that for me, this year was one of the best! I didn't do anything really special. I just went over to Tiffany & Jenny's house for a little "indoor picnic". It was a small gathering (7 of us), that is, until Micelle & her family showed up. Then the numbers doubled. We ate sandwiches & strawberry shortcake. We played a game of Balderdash (I did not do very well). After dark, we went to Lake Eola to watch the fireworks. While they may not have been as well coreographed and technilogical as those put on by Disney or Universal, I thoroughly enjoyed them. We were about as close as you can safely get. I could feel every boom in my chest. It was interesting to hear the reverberation off all the tall buildings of downtown. But the best part, was just being with my friends.

I pray for safe travel as mom & dad are on their way back to America. And I pray for continued travel safety for Mike & Sonia as they continue on to Paris.