It’s Official

We got the announcement today.  I’ll be one of the people on the first shift phone team.  I’m not wild about the phone part, but at least it’s first shift.  That was really my biggest concern, as it was thought most of us would end up on a second shift team.  That was something I really didn’t want.  But I ended up on a first shift phone team.  The other thing is that since entry level phone staff make more than entry level support reps do, it’s a promotion for me.  So while I’m not wild about the phone part of all this, I’m going to continue to trust in my Heavenly Father.  He’s put me in a position to keep my day shift hours and get a promotion.  That’s two of the three things I was looking for and if He thinks this is where I need to be, then this is where I need to be.  The transition will take affect starting Monday November 2nd.  I’ll spend all of that week in training and then start on the phones.  I spent most of the afternoon trying to decide how I felt about all this (we found out in a meeting right after I had lunch). The other good thing about all this is that the six month rule is likely going to be waived. Generally, you have to be in your current position for six months before you can request a transfer within the company.  However, it sounds like that’s going to be waived. So if a month after taking the phone position, I find a job opening within the company that looks good, I can apply for it.  Obviously I’ve been looking at all my options of late and I realized that there aren’t many options out there right now.  I wasn’t all that enthused about starting a job search all over again (nor that optimistic that I’d find something).  Plus, it’s easier to transfer departments when you’re already in the company than it is to get into the department of your choice if you’re outside the company.  Most people seem to think that this isn’t the end of my department – that it will be back in some form a year or two down the road.  I like my department, so if it were to come back, I’d like to go back to it.  It’s easier to do that if I’m still in the company.  Plus, my company has great benefits and is close to home (and close to the area I’d someday like to find an apartment in).  So I decided before today to ride out the wave, wherever it took me and that’s what I’m going to do.

That’s really the only big news in my life right now.  Surgery is a week from today and I’m really ready for it to be here.  It’s going to be cool this weekend…okay, let me rephrase that. It’s going to be cold this weekend.  Highs in the low to mid 40’s over the weekend and a shot at flurries Sunday night, with a low temperature Monday night into Tuesday morning of 27.  Seriously, that nonsense is a little early yet.  It’s not uncommon to have kids trick or treating and have a few wet snowflakes in the air.  But having flurries Sunday night is a little early, given that only two days prior will be our first actual frost of the year (that’s right on schedule, or maybe even a little late – mostly because we’ve been so overcast…to get cold at night around here, the sky’s gotta clear out – we’ve been so overcast and rainy lately that that just hasn’t been possible). 

In other news, my Badgers play at Ohio State this coming weekend.  This weekend is where we find out just how good my Badgers are (or aren’t, as the case may be).  But if they win on Saturday, then watch out Big Ten!  It’d be nice to see them knock all the pundits on their butts!  Games in the afternoon, instead of the 11am start I’ve gotten used to.  Oh well.  It’s Ward Conference this weekend, so I don’t have to do a lesson.  My only hope is that the Stake President doesn’t choose any songs I’m unfamiliar with for Sacrament meeting (our Stake President has a habit of choosing songs on the fly to sing in addition to the ones already chosen for Sacrament meeting).  There are a handful of songs that I LOVE LOVE LOVE to sing, but absolutely hate conducting.  The problem with them is that I have to pay so much attention to the mechanics of the song that I don’t really get to enjoy it.  Oh well.

"Life is measured not by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."