Triskel Life

September 20, 2006

Falling in love

Category: Animals, Family, Meaningful, Uncategorized – westi – 9:42 pm
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It’s fall. No really, it is! Friday morning hubby and I took Guinness for a walk in Nisene Marks and with each inhale the cold air stung my lungs, fresh and whole. The evenings now fade away in golden-hued sunlight and my deck is covered in leaves from a sudden surge of wind. But what I love about fall most is that it makes me fall in love. With life, the sky, and everything around me. It’s when hubby and I fell in love and got married, it’s when I adopted Guinness and Jasmine, it’s when hot chocolate sounds good again.

Yesterday, I fell in love with something else, Miss Bella, a 9 week old German Shepard/”Something” puppy. We adopted her from the Animal Friends Rescue Project (an organization I’m very supportive of, and the same I adopted sweet Jasmine from). So far she is a delight, but Guinness is a little unsure. I think she’ll win him over in no time. We still have MUCH training to do, but it’s fall and I’m in love.

I got an offer I couldn’t refuse…

Category: Career, Meaningful – westi – 9:39 pm
cruzio_logoreal.gif ….A job offer, that is. Coming back from our relaxing three-day weekend, I jumped on my to-do list when my boss invited me into her office and informed me she had just given her two weeks notice. Completely stunned, but happy for her (her new post is at an interesting sounding startup called ourstory.com, check it out!), the wheels in my head began to turn “But what about all the projects we’re working on? What will happen next?” After a few lightening-speed days, and several meetings, I was offered the position of Marketing Manager at Cruzio Internet. I immediately accepted, and will be moving my way -officially, for the first time ever- into management. I will be the manager of my department including supervising one staff person, hopefully some future interns, and planning all our of marketing activities.While I’m totally excited, I do not take the position lightly. I have big shoes to fill, like Ronald McDonald size. Not because my predecessor was excessively tall, but because she is *excellent* at her job, very well known and respected. It is truly the end of an era (she has worked for the company 9 years, taking it from 4 person staff, to 25).I expect the next 6 weeks to be a mad-dash of long days, hard work, planning, meetings, and a steep learning curve. But I have been waiting for a long time to move forward in my career and today is THE DAY. I have never been so excited and so overwhelmed in my whole life (except maybe my wedding day).It’s nice to have good news to report. It feels damn good.