RSS Feed

  1. alive and well….

    November 2, 2010 by shishnit

    Forgive me blog, it has been over 30 days since my last entry.  I have been busy.  I took the new job.  The odd thing is that every day I see someone from my past 6 years in the education industry…at my new employer.  Ok almost every day. My new boss is an old co-worker.  My old co-workers are often my new co-workers. That aspect, I love.  It has been a big change for me to learn new processes for old work tasks.  In many cases, there is no process and since I’m very P&P (policy and procedure) in nature, this is maddening.  But I’ve greatly calmed down.  When there is no P&P in place, then there’s also no one to yell at you that you did not follow it.

    I bought a new car in October. A 2008 Honda Civic with just over 12k miles on it.  I love this new car.  LOVE IT!  I’m totally a Honda girl, through and through and this car is the best one I’ve ever owned yet.  I thought it was champagne colored or tan.  Turns out after I read the registration I found that it is gray.  It looks metallic but not any color to me really.  Either way, I love it!

    Today is Rick’s birthday.  Things with he and I have been rocky and that might be part of the reason why I haven’t been blogging.  At least for the time prior to 10-11-10, which was my new job start date.  (I won’t forget that one will I?)  Things have been up and down and that’s to be expected in marriage but I haven’t been so keen on writing about it because this go around I have tons more respect for my husband than the first go at it.

    I’m alive. I’m doing rather well.  Things aren’t too bad.  Education is totally worth it.  Totally.  I’m proud of myself. Lately I’ve spent far more time facebooking my life piece by piece. I wish facebook kept a running list of your updates so I could just post those here.  That’s a feature I should patent eh?

    Also….my son, Bucky…Keith…he’s turning 18 in 20 more days.  Talk about woah!

     

    Category career, college, grades, love and marriage | Tags: | 2 Comments

  2. my farewell letter at work (subject line: and on her farm she had a goat…e…i….e….i…here I go!)

    October 7, 2010 by shishnit

    So…I am leaving **** to pursue goat herding in Cyprus for my wealthy great-aunt. I wish to thank all of you for your support  and friendship over the past 6 years. It was rewarding to achieve so many new objectives with you, and to have known some of you personally.  They say you can’t pick your family and this is true, but you also have no say in who your work family will consist of,  however working here has been far more fun than any family dinner I’ve ever attended, that’s for certain. You guys are the life of every party and are a wealth of fantastic’ness! (that should totally be a word!)

     

    There have been some amazing people that have been around my table every day for the past 6 years, and I may run into them in the goat fields.  Somehow this company culls the best of the best and then makes them better and better with each passing day, if you don’t resist. It’s a mystery to me how they do this. I’ve long believed there is an invisible box on the application that says “Outstanding yes or no” and only those that are able to find and check the invisible YES box get in and succeed.  Congratulations you were one of the latter; you have won the lottery, now how will you spend your blessings?  Please pass them forward to the students.

    I am now looking forward to the new challenges of herding goats in the” miraculous” fields  of Cypress for the famous three Billy Goat Gruff Company, the company my wealthy Aunt owns, while also moonlighting as a sales consultant for Shamwow on the side and learning how to make cheese. Yes, I intend to stay busy. I’ll also be writing a book and you may be one of the characters within it. Names will be changed to protect the intelligent.  In my spare time I will be exploring my “chef” side again.  Cooking up some goat cheese specialties…and a special “Chef” salad concoction.

    I wish you all the best in all of the company’s future endeavors and objectives, I am not fall out…I just couldn’t resist the opportunity to goat farm. Goat farming is enticing I tell ya! I will always be a Phoenix because I took a lot of time and effort to become a valued Alumni member gaining diploma’s that hold the key to changing people’s lives.  Those pieces of paper are priceless I tell ya.  I did what I spent years encouraging hundred’s of University of Phoenix students to do and it’s been nothing but a joy to be on that journey.  Some people absolutely love being a student.  I hope that herding goats, selling Shamwow’s, writing books and making cheese by hand will be just as rewarding for me, but it would certainly be more fun if you and you were beside me!

     

    If you are thinking of getting into the booming goat-herding industry, need a new super absorbent amazing cleaning rag, love cheese or just wish to hear about my future adventures or buy my future bestseller, please keep in touch, my contact details are: poeticalgirl@hotmail.com, 727-###-####.  I will never turn away a fellow Phoenix. Remember be nice to the person beside you, they will appreciate it and they will be nicer to the students in turn and then everyone wins and no food fights break out at the table.  Food is for cooking, not throwing.

     

    Be the inspiration our students need!  I pass the baton.

    Warmest regards my friends,

    Kristy

     

     

    Kristy ****, Future Goat Farmer, Shamow Representative, Cheesemaker Extraordinaire, Chef to the E list stars

    Somewhere in Cypress on an Secluded Farm 

     

    Category Uncategorized, career | Tags: | No Comments

  3. movin’ on up…..to the delux…wait there is no apartment

    September 29, 2010 by shishnit

    The best two weeks of any job I believe must surely be the two that follow your two weeks notice.  Last night at work (a mere 2 working days after I gave notice) all of my accesses to work systems were removed. I could not even log into the computer!  Tonight I can log in, email and access the Internet, but have lost all access to work systems.  IE: I cannot do anything!  Hilarious!!  Someone obviously did not process my termination work orders properly.  My last day is not even until October 7th. 

    So….I am playing catch up and trying to complete all of the assignments in my last Master’s course.  Which they have already paid for! Which ends on

    I was feeling guilty for weeks but then this IT snafu…well it makes me realize it’s time to move on.  It makes me realize that I’ve learned all I’m going to learn and it’s time for a change.  Bring it!

    Category career, college | Tags: | No Comments

  4. I got the job

    September 23, 2010 by shishnit

    I took the job.  I gave my two weeks notice at my current company today.  It was both bittersweet, exciting and also a tinge of anticipation.  It’s an Assistant Registrar’s job for another University in Tampa. 

    I am in my last Master’s class as I type this…..  Education pays off.

     

    Category career, college | Tags: | 2 Comments

  5. no words for all that I feel

    September 18, 2010 by shishnit

    PhotobucketI can’t quite focus today, and I should be able to. However, so much going on in such a short period of time I feel like I am suffering from emotional whiplash. Things have occurred this week.

    1. I was sent “background check” paperwork to fill out for company I interviewed with (no offer has been extended as of yet)

    2. My son had mad issues with his stepmother (can you say she threw milk all over his bedroom and destroyed his belongings, she’s a looney tune!)

    3. My husband slept on the couch, he’s mad at me…for any number of reasons. (all of which he has not communicated to me in any manner than I can understand)

    4. My best friend and brother Greg…had a stroke this past Monday and has lost his ability to use his left side properly or well at all.
    # 4 is killing me the most. Greg’s too young to have had a stroke and I spent 3 hours just crying last night. Perhaps from the mere shock of his news, his slurred speech, my broken heart, the realization that life is too short for me to be dealing with 1 thru 3 with fear and anxiety. I’m tired of feeling responsible for fixing everyone else’s problems and I’m angry today because the problems that Greg currently has are the type that no one can fix. His news puts everything in my world into a different perspective. Greg currently cannot paint. This is like saying “Greg currently cannot inhale oxygen”. He just found out this news yesterday, it hasn’t even been 24 hours. I’ve blogged extensively about g. before here.
    It’s likely that I probably shouldn’t be blogging such a personal thing but it’s ripping me apart and no one around me feels what I feel. Greg “is” my brother. Not by blood, DNA or any other trackable method but in my heart and in my soul he is. He is nearly my only family and the only person I’ve relied on for emotional support for many years, outside of my son and husband. I nearly broke down crying 3 times with him over the phone. The mere thought of Greg not walking, not fishing, not hiking the woods, not playing drums, not writing poetry, not reading Stephen King novels (he tells me he can’t hold the book and turn the pages with one hand), not driving his Jeepie (doctors have already told him he will not likely drive a stick shift again), not PAINTING his amazing paintings…it’s all heartbreaking for me. Greg is young. YOUNG people YOUNG. Greg is 42 years old and has had a stroke. He is currently resting and is with family. He is able to speak to me via phone and he is in the brightest spirits for someone who just got this type of news that is forever life altering. I believe he will recover, fully. FULLY!

    But that does not mean my heart is not tormented. Why do such horrid things happen to such amazing people? Recently one of you fine shishnit blog readers gave me the advice, “Do it, life is too short” and I had long conversations with another friend of mine about beating down fear, heading face first into fear and overcoming it and living alongside it embracing it and that being a big reason why I’m going to “DO IT” and how LIFE is too short.

    And then perusing facebook yesterday I find out that my closest friend for over 12 years, my “brother g.” is facing a long road of overcoming frustrations and rehabilitation. And his response to this stroke…a “will not quit” attitude. He’s already putting his paint brush in hand and trying to paint. He’s already planning his come back. I am so amazingly proud of him, worried about him and feeling helpless that I am so far away and cannot do any of the things that I, who appreciates him in my life immensely, wishes she could do.
    Please visit Greg at his website here click on his contact link and send him a happy silly get better message on my behalf. And be sure to tell him I love him because I do love him…just like a sister loves her brother.

    Category family, friends, world | Tags: | 1 Comment

Older Entries
Newer Entries