Work, work stories and a beautiful day

Hello Everyone!

How are you all doing? It's been a while my apologies, I have been thinking a lot and working (primarily) and just doing things at the office everything from taking phone calls to shaking my head in disbelief to involuntarily having the theme song for "Miami Vice" in my head (more on that later)

Firstly, working gives me mixed feelings...(and yes, I still miss all my friends from cCCF and CCF) but work gave me a focus or at least a new target. (Far from what I envisioned I would be doing but nevertheless it seems to be good for me) I do have a lot of positive things to say about my workplace, even though I won't name the company, I'll tell you what they have done for me...I was never expecting a company to help their employees when it came to learning disabilities, but my bosses and trainers gave me a lot of time to learn, surprisingly enough, they also took the time to figure out how it potentially affects me at the workplace.

There is still a lot to learn and I thank the great people at LinkUp who helped me get the job, and as a result I didn't feel like I was wasting my time when I work...now on to the work story

I am sure you've all heard of the saying: "When in Rome...do as the Romans do" ironically I have actually been to Rome...and it seems to ring true when my friends mentioned work having a culture all their own...and there is really such a thing as casual day! ( although I practically always wore a shirt and tie)

But what do you get when you cross a shirt and tie with wardrobe from a episode of "Miami Vice"? or worse, it reminds you of the Jim Kelly Tae Kwon Do movies of the 80's? you get well...one co-worker who induces more laughs than a night at Yuk Yuk's

of course I always get really bad attempts by said co-worker to launch insults (although I would actually be curious, just what the heck does insults in French sound like?)

This leads me to naturally always say: "Did you raid the 80's again??" (of course, this only gets a really puzzled guy totally lost) the odd part is I am not even usually inclined towards laughing at people (Although having weeks of shirts and suits that remind me of Snoop Dogg in a 50 cent video--I don't know what to think)

Other random things that happen to me at work (and yes, I even laugh at myself) this includes having failed attempts to pronounce names with no consanants (although sadly, I really was trying my best to get the cilent's name right) *sigh*

But aside from that, I have to say work is really challenging and interesting, it taught me so much that I was more inclined to work than take a break (and yes, breaks actually do help) I was just very quiet and methodical when approaching things at work, I am also not animated like I used to be, and I actually take work home with me.

Another plus for me seems to be that I am paid to learn and I must say that I am happy with that, and there are so many helpful people at work it always gets me feeling energized when I go to work ( hm..I still haven't brought my mp3 player with me) but for once not writing essays and think of ways to beat the tar out of exams definitely makes me happy.

I found that working got me thinking about investing money whereas in the past the thought did not occur to me as much as it did now.

The only thing that is a setback? I miss my friends so much. But that can't be helped I guess...^__^ hey I'll always remember the great brothers and sisters at Waterloo...you guys always did bring a smile to my face.

Now what is more beautiful than a rose? why, today of course! It's been a while since I actually had the time to take walks outside so I went out for a long walk (while listening to songs on my mp3 player) it was so beautiful outside I actually stood around and closed my eyes and breathed deeply, I stayed and even watched the sunset--I don't know how to describe that--other than it's just a beautiful day. ( Actually Super Cutie's beautiful too, wait...my mind's wandering off again..^^")

Signing off,

TKO