New Job

Well, I made it to my second step of three in my goals for my career with Lowe's. I was promoted to department manager today for electrical. It took me 19 months to the day. When I hired on with Lowe's and got a few weeks in I made a personal goal to be a department manager in 1 year and a zone manager in 5 years. I missed my goal of department manager by 7 months. I will have to work harder on the zone manager job. I may have set a very optimistic goal, but it is definitely possible. Others have done it in less time. What was the first step you ask. Team Leader. A necessary step towards department manager. I don't know for sure, but I think I made Team Leader in June of '07.

I have been doing most of the duties of a department manager for about 45 days now, although I have not been able to completely finish everything required. I have at least seen nearly every facet of the job and have some understanding of the hows and whys of each part. We have been very understaffed in the department for a while, and that issue is slated to be resolved soon.

That will be my greatest relief, having enough people to cover the tasks and the hours we need to cover. The money isn't/wasn't an issue for me. I'd love to make more, but we are doing OK. The status and "prestige" mean nothing to me. I am not on an ego trip. Don't need to be. I work because I need to but more than that because I like to. I manage to have fun every day at work.

If you haven't checked Chad and Lesa's blog or Jill's blogs lately you should. Both Madison and Amari are growing so fast. Very mobile now and Mari especially is becoming a handful to watch. She seems to move much faster than she actually does. At least she's into things faster than I can keep up with.

Georgiann and I are going to Pennsylvania to Amish country to celebrate our 36th anniversary. Thanks to Todd and Diana we have tickets to see the Sight and Sound productions of "In The Beginning" and "Abraham and Sarah." We will see the shows on Saturday, then stay until Monday, our anniversary, to come home. Short trip (about 5 hours I think each way) but should be fun if the weather is decent. We hope to tour the Hershey plant as well. Goodbye diet. Hello chocolate paradise. If you have never heard of Sight and Sound Theaters here is their link: http://www.sight-sound.com/WebSiteSS/getlanguages.do. They have theaters in Branson, MO as well as Strasburg, PA.

Been hoping to get some weight off to help my knees to heal so I can go biking with Todd and anyone else that wants to go. My friend Bob stopped in the other day. He is an avid runner/biker and I hope to get some miles in with him soon as well. I want to one day ride across the country on the TransAmerica Bicycle Trail. Looks like fun.

Thanks for stopping by to see what's going on. No pictures this time. We don't live very exciting lives here in our sleepy little town.