Day 310 New job responsibility

My boss surprised me today with a new job responsibility. Without my knowledge he had gotten me approved to sign travel documents. I had no idea he was working on that. It was a nice surprise.

Day 309 PA

I went to see a physician assistant today. First for me. I really liked her and she was as every bit as knowledgeable as my doctor.

I am going to go ahead and publish these. Taylor has reached a point in her life where she needed to take a break from the firsts. It is hard to do a first each day but it is harder on young people I think. There lives are harder due to work stresses and life. As you get older life becomes simpler in many ways. You settle into life.

Day 308 Health scare and Election Day

I had a little health scare today. It is probably nothing according to the doctor but she is running a few test to make sure.

I've (Taylor) voted before but I don't believe I've ever voted on Election Day. And I stupidly waited until an hour before the polls closed. I stood in line for 45 minutes! But I voted :)

Day 307 Talk up a book and taking a stand

I love to read. I enjoyed it growing up but I feel in love when I read "Gone with the Wind". I have read a lot since then. I mean a lot. There was a time at work when my job was not super busy and I would read at work. I could finish a book a day. Today when I went into the library to return two books and pick up one. I told the librarian that I highly recommended "Leaving Time" by Jodi Picoult. I don't know what possessed me to do it. She had not read it. I hope she does. It is amazing.

Last night was the start of me taking a stand for myself in a situation I've not beena fan of for a bit. It ended tonight with still being stuck doing something I don't enjoy but having a new outlook on it. So sometimes being nicely told to suck it up and deal is the best thing for you. 

Day 306 House of Cards and gun range

Today I started watching the Netflix show "House of Cards". I have always been fascinated by political shows. "West Wing" was one of my favorite shows. This one stars Kevin Spacey. His character is a real bastard. Makes you wonder if Washington is really like that?

Today josh wanted to go to a new gun range he had heard about that is located in Woodbury. The adventure started off with a much longer than anticipated trip to Walmart and then driving the wrong way to Woodbury. The wrong way ended up leading us on a 1 hour trip through streets nobody would ever want to go down. I told josh that if I didn't know him I would have thought he was taking me somewhere to kill me and hide my body. (Yes morbid thoughts. But you didn't see these roads!) anyway he had about 30 minutes of shooting before it turned too dark to see and we had to head home. 

Day 305 Quilt in book and mentoring

Today was very special. There was a reception for all the quilters who made quilts for the Medal of Honor recipients. I went so I could thank Kit, the woman who organized the whole thing. I was surprised when she gave us gifts. We got pictures of the quilts we made plus a book. The book was specially made for us. It has pictures of a the quilts and who they went to. It is spectacular. I am so honored to be in there three times. Here are pictures of the three quilts I worked on.

Today I officially became a mentor to our new drive thru director. I passed my title on and now I'm just here to help coach him on what to look for and how to evaluate the data. I'm pretty excited about this phase :) I've never really me toured anyone in my work setting based on my experience. 

Day 304 Forgotten first and jacket

I know I had a first today but I waited too long to blog about it and now I have forgotten what it was. That is a first. I always remember. If it comes to me, I will change this. But for now my first is that I forgot my first.

Have you noticed a trend where all of my posts tend to deal with work? I think I've asked that before, but that's where my life revolves around. At least that's true the last 2 months. 

Today is not a very exciting first but we got new jackets in for our outside drive thru team. I fell in love so I decided to order my own and I even got my name out on it :)