Random thoughts and feelings
Oct 04
I’ve been thinking a lot, about a lot of things lately with all sorts of things. Work … and personal life things. I’ll start with the last first. Eric’s started school two weeks ago which means I’m home at night by myself three nights a week. It gives me a great opportunity to do a couple of things. I could work out every night, go for long walks with the dog or make some more friends. I’ve been thinking about the latter a lot lately. I have a very few number for great friends and the ones I have are all over the country from Texas to Bellingham, Washington and all parts in between. I realize that I have this great opportunity to meet people outside of work and not feel guilty about not spending time with Eric since he’s at school at the same time. SO, my answer is a few things. I just found a group that meets on Mondays over one of my hobbies for a few hours at a coffee shop. I think I’m going to start going there on Monday nights and then I found a great book club that meets once a month to talk about a mystery book. I figure these two things would be great for me to do. I’ll meet people outside of work and develop friendships too. I just hope I have the guts to do them both. Contrary to popular belief, I’m not super outgoing in new situations. I’m one of those people who hand in the background when I’m in a new situation but I think these two things will be great for me.
As for work. and interesting thing happened the other day, not at work, but with a friend. We were talking about things and she asked me what I did at work. My replay, “I build online training courses”. Usually when I say that people give me the, “that’s cool”, almost like they don’t know what that means and don’t want to ask more and show that they don’t get it. She called me on the carpet and asked me what did I really do. She wanted to know it all. I really appreciated that. I sat with her and explained how the whole process works and what it is that I really do. I told her everything and it made me think, I don’t know if my friends, outside Intel really know what I do. Then I was reading my brother-in-laws blog gregtitus the other day and got a great idea. I should sit down sometime and really explain my job to the people in my life. To me I don’t usually say much about it because it’s old hat to me and/or I think people are bored with it but maybe I’ll put a post here soon and explain it all. Thanks for the great idea Greg!
I’m also looking at improving my web skills and design knowledge by learning Flash better. Right now I’m not even a novice Flash user and I need to learn more. I’m considering taking a class at PCC next quarter, my department will pay for it too. SO we’ll see how that goes. I sort of miss the whole academia thing. I loved it when I was in school for my masters degree.
Well, I’ve got a great book to read, Killer Pancake by DMD (Diane Mott Davidson) so I should go. Hopefully, with any luck I’ll get to writing in this journal more often.
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I focus on developing creative and innovative training solutions in my job, specifically looking for opportunities to utilize social media, informal learning, mobile strategies, and cutting edge solutions.
In my personal life I enjoy wine touring with my husband and friends. In addition, I enjoy scrapbooking, sewing, knitting, and making/enjoying great food. 
