Favorite things part 6 of 83 is going to be short and sweet.
I love weekend bloggers!!!! I usually have a few hours quality computer time on Sundays and nothing is better than drinking a cup of coffee and reading some fabulous blogs.
So thank you weekend bloggers!
P.s. If you didn't know this when you write a draft and publish it a week later, it doesn't go to the top of your blog. It stays at the original day you started it. Just thought I would share, I had to do some deleting and re-typing of this post today. I hope it didn't screw up anyone's GR. :)
Showing posts with label Favorite things. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Favorite things. Show all posts
Sunday, March 9, 2008
Sunday, February 24, 2008
Favorite things (part 5 of 83)
I think a favorite things post is long overdue. Part 5 of 83 is a favorite thing that was very recently come into my life. Drum roll please.......
My new coffee mug! No my 8 year cousin didn't paint it, I did. It was purposely painted with annoying colors and dots because I planned on taking it to work and annoying my boss a bit with a cute but a little ugly big mug. But after discovering that it fits perfectly under my Tassimo, I think I may just have to keep it at home.
The only part I don't like about it is the purple came out darker than I thought it would. Other than that I think it is pretty cool and a little vintage looking.
Not to shabby on the inside either, right?
Yay for bright big coffee mugs!
Oh and another yay for having the company of super cool ladies while painting the mug!
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Favorite things (part 4 of 83)
In August if you would have told me I would call this one of my favorite things on Feb. 13 I would have probably slapped you in the face. Well, not really, even in my most negative times I am not that violent. :)
What a build up....anyway, it's my job! Crazy I know. If any of you were part of my life a few months ago you know that my job totally sucked. I was over qualified for what I was doing and under appreciated by patrons. Plus, when I would meet someone for the first time I was ashamed to tell them what I was doing. But now is totally different.
I can proudly say that I am the Manager of all the St. Louis vending and K-8 school accounts for my company. Dream job? No way. Do I still long for a job where I can use my public speaking and creative skills and be making twice my salary? Absolutely. But for this time in my life my job is pretty freakin sweet.
For one, I went to school for management. I even got a great job right out of college. I was making good money working for the 5th (or something like that) highest volume Red Lobster's in the world. I had over 100 people under me. I was losing weight, getting married soon, and living in a fabulous apartment. But I was totally miserable. I was so stressed that I would cry almost every night after work or sometimes in the bathroom at work. I could only think about my job on my days off and couldn't even put work behind me to enjoy a bridal shower.
About five weeks before my wedding I put in my notice. My boss was disappointed and told me I was doing a good job. He tried to convince me to stay 6 more months just to see if things got better. I said no, I was miserable. He then told me if I stuck around until right before the wedding I would get a decent quarterly bonus. But I just couldn't, I couldn't do that. All I did was sleep and work. In fact, that is why I lost so much weight, because I was too stressed to stop and eat. After explaining that I gave him 3 weeks notice. I left there having no idea what I would do after the wedding. I didn't care.
Three jobs later, here I am. Even though I have been with my current company almost two years, I am finally starting to really enjoy being there. They acknowledge a great potential in me and when my job came availiable they didn't even open it to anyone else. They just put me in it, which was a big compliment.
One thing that rocks about it is my schedule. While so many of my friends think I am crazy for waking up at 4:15 am and getting to work around 5:15am I really like my schedule. Most days I can leave right at 1:30 and on a totally busy/crazy day which rarely happens I leave at 3 by the latest.
The other element that I love is working one on one with only a handful of clients. When I was cooking I had to deal with sometimes 100 different people everyday. And usually not people that were in a good mood.
Sometimes my job gets pretty stressful but now my worst day doesn't even seem so bad. And when times are tough my awesome boss steps in and does what he can to make things not so rough.
Well, I actually have three bosses. Usually have multiple bosses is a bad thing, but not for me. My immediate boss is the one I was just referring to and again let me stress that he is awesome. I work on his account's campus and we actually share part of an office space. He has really been supportive and helpful in my transition to this much higher up position. He constantly pushes me out the door saying, "Leave! Seriously, you have worked hard and long enough today....the rest can wait until tomorrow." He also always make sure I don't have too much on my plate. We help each other out and really make a fabulous team.
My second boss doesn't really deal with me all that much except with a few key items from each account that he oversees. He too is good to work for because he is very encouraging.
My third boss is the big one. He is the District Manager for all of the St. Louis. And while I don't need to report to him directly on most issues, he is my boss for my vending accounts. We've had our ups and downs since I have been with the company, but today I received the nicest email from him:
"Sounds good. Keep me posted. Also I wanted to say THANKS FOR DOING SUCH A GREAT JOB. I enjoy working with you more closely. You are a true professional."
He typed in all caps! Compliments from your boss are always so much better when they are in all caps. Plus, I love the phrase "true professional". I think for a 25 year old that is fresh in the game this is a truly great and hard to live up to phrase.
Yep, job is good if you can't tell or have poor reading comprehension. Thanks as always for reading!
What a build up....anyway, it's my job! Crazy I know. If any of you were part of my life a few months ago you know that my job totally sucked. I was over qualified for what I was doing and under appreciated by patrons. Plus, when I would meet someone for the first time I was ashamed to tell them what I was doing. But now is totally different.
I can proudly say that I am the Manager of all the St. Louis vending and K-8 school accounts for my company. Dream job? No way. Do I still long for a job where I can use my public speaking and creative skills and be making twice my salary? Absolutely. But for this time in my life my job is pretty freakin sweet.
For one, I went to school for management. I even got a great job right out of college. I was making good money working for the 5th (or something like that) highest volume Red Lobster's in the world. I had over 100 people under me. I was losing weight, getting married soon, and living in a fabulous apartment. But I was totally miserable. I was so stressed that I would cry almost every night after work or sometimes in the bathroom at work. I could only think about my job on my days off and couldn't even put work behind me to enjoy a bridal shower.
About five weeks before my wedding I put in my notice. My boss was disappointed and told me I was doing a good job. He tried to convince me to stay 6 more months just to see if things got better. I said no, I was miserable. He then told me if I stuck around until right before the wedding I would get a decent quarterly bonus. But I just couldn't, I couldn't do that. All I did was sleep and work. In fact, that is why I lost so much weight, because I was too stressed to stop and eat. After explaining that I gave him 3 weeks notice. I left there having no idea what I would do after the wedding. I didn't care.
Three jobs later, here I am. Even though I have been with my current company almost two years, I am finally starting to really enjoy being there. They acknowledge a great potential in me and when my job came availiable they didn't even open it to anyone else. They just put me in it, which was a big compliment.
One thing that rocks about it is my schedule. While so many of my friends think I am crazy for waking up at 4:15 am and getting to work around 5:15am I really like my schedule. Most days I can leave right at 1:30 and on a totally busy/crazy day which rarely happens I leave at 3 by the latest.
The other element that I love is working one on one with only a handful of clients. When I was cooking I had to deal with sometimes 100 different people everyday. And usually not people that were in a good mood.
Sometimes my job gets pretty stressful but now my worst day doesn't even seem so bad. And when times are tough my awesome boss steps in and does what he can to make things not so rough.
Well, I actually have three bosses. Usually have multiple bosses is a bad thing, but not for me. My immediate boss is the one I was just referring to and again let me stress that he is awesome. I work on his account's campus and we actually share part of an office space. He has really been supportive and helpful in my transition to this much higher up position. He constantly pushes me out the door saying, "Leave! Seriously, you have worked hard and long enough today....the rest can wait until tomorrow." He also always make sure I don't have too much on my plate. We help each other out and really make a fabulous team.
My second boss doesn't really deal with me all that much except with a few key items from each account that he oversees. He too is good to work for because he is very encouraging.
My third boss is the big one. He is the District Manager for all of the St. Louis. And while I don't need to report to him directly on most issues, he is my boss for my vending accounts. We've had our ups and downs since I have been with the company, but today I received the nicest email from him:
"Sounds good. Keep me posted. Also I wanted to say THANKS FOR DOING SUCH A GREAT JOB. I enjoy working with you more closely. You are a true professional."
He typed in all caps! Compliments from your boss are always so much better when they are in all caps. Plus, I love the phrase "true professional". I think for a 25 year old that is fresh in the game this is a truly great and hard to live up to phrase.
Yep, job is good if you can't tell or have poor reading comprehension. Thanks as always for reading!
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Chai Tea OVERLOAD and another favorite thing (part 3 of 83)
I have been going overboard on Chai Tea Lattes lately. I have drank five since Sunday night, which for the usually coffee fanatic I am, this is a lot. Luckily, none of them have been out, they have all been brewed in my amazingly wonderful Tassimo.
For those of you that don't know the pure of awesomeness of the Tassimo, go to there website and read up on it next time you are bored. It makes tea, hot chocolate, coffee, lattes, and now chai!
I am actually pretty picky about chai lattes. Most of the time they are really toooo sweet or too heavy on a tea flavor. The Tassimo ones are pretty good though. Of course I would take a fresh coffeehouse chai latte over a homemade one any day, but still they are pretty darn good considering they make a good size mug full for 63 cents (thank you Target for the lower price in store that online!) versus 3 plus dollars. Of course, I don't figure in the $170 dollars we paid for the Tassimo when we bought it with wedding gift cards ;)
Another good thing is that the Tassimo ones are less in calories and sugar vs. an instant mix I get at Trader Joes. Still a good substiute, but I am really digging this new chai. It is definately a favorite thing for this week. Obviously, because I just started sipping number 6. Hehe.
Thursday, February 7, 2008
Favorite things (part 2 of 83)
Well, today's addition of favortie things features someone that probably should have been featured in the first post; however this "thing" isn't too blog supportive so I suppose it isn't too bad to put him in part 2.
Blogging world, meet my husband, Nathan. :)
He is a 25 year old amazing person that has taught me a lifetime's worth of life and love within a few years. Not only does he love me unconditionally, but he is truly sentimental and kind to everyone he meets. One of his best qualities is that he deeply cares for each and everyone of his family and friends even when they haven't always given him the same respect.
He takes my competitive nature with stride, and isn't too embarassed to admit that I sometimes wear the pants in the family. He does little things to help me out/cheer me up all the time.
He is a master of pancakes, cornbread, and flourless peanut butter cookies and occasionally the grill when I let him near it.
Anyone who tries to steal him after this post will have to deal with my scary side. ;)
Monday, February 4, 2008
Favorite things (Part 1 of 83)
Ok, well, I started this blog so everyone could be oh so impressed with my life (not really). Honestly, this whole blog thing seems to be the cool thing to do and I am always trying to be more cool.
I am thinking that most of my readers either won't know me or know very little about me, so for my first post I decided that there is no better way for my readers to get to know me than through a few of my favorite things. So this post is the first in a series of 83, because 83 is a cool random number. :)
I spend a good part of the day Sunday taking pics of stuff around the house I really love. Unfortuately, I have no digital camera except for the one on my phone so the pictures are a little crappy looking. I apoligize, but hey, you will get the idea.
Yep, it is a stove. Exciting, I know. But in the past few years of cooking professionally and not so professionally I have tried to expand my culinary horizons and a good stove is key to this. And luckily I have a great one. Gas stoves are awesome. I still fear that one day there will be a gas leak and I will die a painful, exploding death, but oh well.
This is Roxie. She is a huge PITA but I still love her. She's some kind of English Setter mix, but I definately see Lab too. She is so much of a favorite thing that she gets three pictures!
Even with being in a house with hardwood for 6+ months she still can't keep her stance.
Yep, she's a cutie.
My never been used, fave Christmas gift---a firepit. yes, it is on the living room floor at the moment. One of these days it will be brave enough to go into the wild of our yard. One of these days......
I am a game freak. I am super competitive and all of my friends love playing any kind of game with me because I make them roll laughing. While it may seem corny to some, I love board games. Spend $25 on one and you have countless nights you may never forget with friends, complete strangers, and your significant other that you threatened witholding sex to at least twice within one game of Monopoly because they purposely wouldn't sell you St. Charles Place, not because they needed it but just because you wanted it! But I digress, I love games. The End.
At one point in my life I was a infomercial junkie. I had the Jack Lalanne Power Juicer, the plastic containers that all fit on the lazy susan, the silcone bakeware, etc. But out of all of them, the Magic Bullet has been my best friend. It has ground my coffee, made a killer frozen drink, and consoled me after my failed attempt of homemade salsa.
I love hot anything. I normally go through an entire big bottle of hot sauce within two weeks. My husband Nathan thinks I am burning holes in my insides.
I have a super cool bar glass collection. Tons of wine glasses as well as a good selection of martini and other cocktail glasses. While I do use them, I just enjoy the fact that each set has a story. Like the set of blue stemmed martini glasses in the back are an incomplete set after I used them to decorate a dessert display at my Grandma's wonderful 80th bday party.
Just a little taste of Teresa. Hopefully that amused someone for at least 30 seconds.
I am thinking that most of my readers either won't know me or know very little about me, so for my first post I decided that there is no better way for my readers to get to know me than through a few of my favorite things. So this post is the first in a series of 83, because 83 is a cool random number. :)
I spend a good part of the day Sunday taking pics of stuff around the house I really love. Unfortuately, I have no digital camera except for the one on my phone so the pictures are a little crappy looking. I apoligize, but hey, you will get the idea.
Yep, it is a stove. Exciting, I know. But in the past few years of cooking professionally and not so professionally I have tried to expand my culinary horizons and a good stove is key to this. And luckily I have a great one. Gas stoves are awesome. I still fear that one day there will be a gas leak and I will die a painful, exploding death, but oh well.
This is Roxie. She is a huge PITA but I still love her. She's some kind of English Setter mix, but I definately see Lab too. She is so much of a favorite thing that she gets three pictures!
Even with being in a house with hardwood for 6+ months she still can't keep her stance.
Yep, she's a cutie.
My never been used, fave Christmas gift---a firepit. yes, it is on the living room floor at the moment. One of these days it will be brave enough to go into the wild of our yard. One of these days......
I am a game freak. I am super competitive and all of my friends love playing any kind of game with me because I make them roll laughing. While it may seem corny to some, I love board games. Spend $25 on one and you have countless nights you may never forget with friends, complete strangers, and your significant other that you threatened witholding sex to at least twice within one game of Monopoly because they purposely wouldn't sell you St. Charles Place, not because they needed it but just because you wanted it! But I digress, I love games. The End.
At one point in my life I was a infomercial junkie. I had the Jack Lalanne Power Juicer, the plastic containers that all fit on the lazy susan, the silcone bakeware, etc. But out of all of them, the Magic Bullet has been my best friend. It has ground my coffee, made a killer frozen drink, and consoled me after my failed attempt of homemade salsa.
I love hot anything. I normally go through an entire big bottle of hot sauce within two weeks. My husband Nathan thinks I am burning holes in my insides.
I have a super cool bar glass collection. Tons of wine glasses as well as a good selection of martini and other cocktail glasses. While I do use them, I just enjoy the fact that each set has a story. Like the set of blue stemmed martini glasses in the back are an incomplete set after I used them to decorate a dessert display at my Grandma's wonderful 80th bday party.Just a little taste of Teresa. Hopefully that amused someone for at least 30 seconds.
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