Friday

I made it through an entire week of work!  And survived.  Spoiler alert – I loved it!  Of course there is the usual overwhelming amount of information to absorb (coming at you from a fire hose) but I can already tell I am going to love working here.   I love instructional design.  Oh sure I can deliver training with the best of them but I am happiest when I am creating training materials for either other trainers to deliver or when I am developing web based training.  My first project will be a web-based training and I might even get to go up in a helicopter as part of my research!!

This week has been a flurry of onboarding activities.  The team I am joining is seriously short-staffed at the moment so they are delighted to have extra help coming on board.  I’m not the only newbie either – there are four others starting with me and we have been relying on each other for support.  Lot’s of “did you catch that?” type of back and forth.

I have discovered that my work wardrobe is seriously lacking.  In my previous job I could wear nice jeans (black or dark wash) and that made up the majority of my work appropriate attire.  Here there is no jean wearing.  Still business casual but no jeans.  I have four pairs of pants that aren’t jeans and most of them are various iterations of black pants.  I need a serious wardrobe update.

I literally just walked into my darkened bedroom and said “Why hello kitty…” to a pair of pants that I threw on to my bed when I got home from work.  As soon as I get home I cannot wait to take off my work clothes and put on my comfies.  I need to find comfortable, fashionable, business casual appropriate clothes to wear so if  you have any favorite stores let me know.

We have a bbq to go to on Saturday but other than that our weekend will be spent resting and recuperating.  Rick has had an especially bad bout of kidney stones this week.  I don’t think he’s ever had an attack that was this prolonged.  Why couldn’t it have happened last week when I was still not working?!  So he’ll be recovering from that and I’ll just be trying to catch a breath.

So so happy to gainfully employed again!

I hope you have a lovely weekend!