Noticias de mi vida

Tons of stuff has been going on, but I just haven’t had a chance to write any of it down. Yeah, I’ve had my fair share of time on the couch watching tv, but that was exactly that: my time on the couch watching tv. Not my time typing up blog posts. Some things are falling into places while others are just not. Lets talk about the ones that are, and leave that ones that aren’t to a later date when they finally fall into place.

First, the windchime.
It’s gone. I went and talked to the apartment complex manager to extend my contract, and I figured it was the perfect time to ask her to take care of the windchime. I offered my opinion that the incessant noise harmonious music the wind produces at all hours of the night if the equivalent of me playing my favorite harmonious music noise at all hours of the night for my neighbors to hear.

She told me I had a good point and it wasn’t the first time they had asked for wind chimes to be taken down in her career.
That very same evening when I got home, the wind chime was gone.

Everything is so quiet now. It’s weird. I wake up at 2:30am and notice something’s missing.
I like missing that. It’s great.

Second, work.
Work is going really well. I finally feel comfortable with the product I sell, I don’t require experienced support to sit with me during my demos, and I was praised by the CEO for a job well done on 2 different occasions. The company only has 54 employees, and being in sales, I get to interact with him everyday, but still, it’s nice when the commander in chief praises you. Especially a rookie like me. Now if the few deals I’m working that are simmering and boiling would just pop, things will be going from very well to great. One popped on Friday, and I think another pops on Tuesday or Wednesday. It’s so much fun to work at a place you enjoy.
The first word out of my mouth/thought popping into my head in the mornings when I wake up is no longer a long, sad: “Fuuuck”.

I’m back to checking my work email at night before I go to bed, and when I wake up, and I rarely have time to take a relaxed lunch break. Yeah, it sounds weird, but I love the feeling of liking my job again. I even volunteered a call with a guy in Switzerland at 4am my time, and didn't have a probelm with it at all!

I came up with a metaphor (or maybe it’s an Analogy). I never quite figured out which one to use when, and I’m too lazy to look it up. Any way... Before, I felt like a plant in a pot that was too small for my roots, and no one watered me. Now, I feel like a healthy, luscious green plant living in the rain forest. Plenty of rain, sun, nutrients in the soil, and liberty to grow.
As of today, I really really like my job. Something I haven’t been able to say since, hmmm, well, probably 2003.

Ok enough for this post.