June 2013 Moms
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Pour the wine, light the fire... Girl your wish is my com-spam
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Re: Pour the wine, light the fire... Girl your wish is my com-spam
YESSSSS @libberluru, it rhymes with spam! (this is where my DH and I would high 5 and shout "word play club!" when we get a good play on words or pun. we are VERY cool).
Also this was my second concert ever, so my dad took me and 2 girl friends. Talk about an awkward song to sing along to next to your pops.
I would like to take back my "fared well physically" statement from yesterday. Maybe a 5 hour car ride filled with champagne 1 hour after finishing wasn't the best recovery strategy. It felt so right though...
Edited: posted too soon
Brag time! The last month I have been working insane hours, like 13-14 hr days on average. Most of it was on these two filings that we had to get in and get approved and I was in charge of. They are two of the first major filings I'm signing off on myself, and there's literally no one else above me involved at all. So I've been really stressing because the guy reviewing the filings has been tough and keeps making me run in circles to satisfy his concerns.
Last week they got approved!!! And one of my good friends at work was at a conference with the reviewer (who is one of the top top guys at the Office in this state) and she said when she was talking to him he said my filings were good, and that they were much better than they've seen for others.
This is legit a big deal! Our company has had several filings go in that are very similar and all of us have had issues getting them approved. I'm the most junior person signing these filings but I got official approval first and now he said mine were much better
AND our year end review is coming up in the next few weeks, so the timing couldn't possibly have been better.
AND I got another filing submitted last week, and FINALLY I have breathing room at work. Yay for a 40 hour work week!
PLUS I have something I can specifically point to when we discuss my "alternative schedule" -- I can say, look, I worked the alternative schedule throughout this whole filing process, and my work was still superior and my communication with clients and regulators was still superior. There was no loss in quality or productivity.
@mcbush It went pretty well, all things considering. She did great at dinner and when we were done it was about 8, so about 30 minutes after her bedtime, and about 1.5 hrs after what she thinks is her bedtime because of DST. We decided to try to go get gelato and she was ok for the first 15 minutes but then LOST it. We all ended up leaving pretty quickly, but it was ok, because our guests wanted to go try drinks at this other place, so we dropped them off there and we headed home.
I call it a success though, because it was a bit of a stretch to hope she'd make it through gelato too. Maybe if we'd actually given her some gelato she'd have been happier, but H & I decided not to eat any after the huge dinner we'd had.
@numbersgirl08 Big Congrats! That is great.
I did not have high expectations for today's interview. Went to it because I thought "why not?" and was happy to have practice for tomorrow's interview. She sold me so hard on this company, although it might be that I'm easy to please. I was sold with "we start at 3-weeks vacation", quarterly bonuses, paid days off when they close for winter holiday (I currently get this as forced non-paid time off), RRSP matching, I was trying not to drool :-O . I'm excited to see if I get a call back.
She described the extended health benefits as standard but I would ask to see a copy if I get a call back. Also there is an employee contribution to it (20%/80% employer) so I would need to see what that came out to. The RRSP matching is 1% of income, which is better than nothing.
@steamboat123 I don't know if I rocked it, but I think I did OK. I feel like I didn't quite sell myself enough (people are always telling me how much they love working with me, how do I say that in an interview??) and spoke too much about the type of environment I like to work in, but those are the questions she was asking.