Accomplishments

I've been given an amazing opportunity at my work. First, I became the manager of the Quality Assurance department which a year ago, didn't exist. I was the QA deparment. With help from my boss we built an entire department and I had 6 direct reports and 10 indirect reports from our 6 other centers. With another raise I spoke with my boss and told her of my frustrations. I told her, in more professional terms, that I likened my job to repeating a grade over and over again. I wasn't learning, I wasn't growing.
So now with a year of Quality Assurance under my belt, I have now been promoted to Human Resources Generalist. I will be trained by an outside party and be hopefully taught enough to take and pass the PHR exam. And all of this I am getting paid for. It's like getting to go to school for free. I am so fortunate.
I've tried telling people things about this in the past, but I am a firm believer in the Secret. If you are positive, you bring positive things to you. Most people just laugh or brush it off, thinking I'm just a silly naive little girl, but seriously, within the last month, I have been "Secret-ing" an HR job. I wanted to learn the skill so badly. Anything to put on my resume for me to fall back on would be good, but HR is just...always needed.
So I've been imagining myself already in the department. And now I am the head of it.

New Diary

I decided to start a new diary. After years on OpenDiary, I feel like I need to start somewhere fresh.
I have a lot of changes that are going on in my life lately. I've started to date a new man who I hope to marry someday. He is a former pastor, and is teaching me a lot about God and the bible. Before I go to sleep I have him tell me stories of Job, Abel, Esther, and fall asleep listening to him preach to me.
Now, this may seem crazy, I mean, I am not one to have really any set beliefs at all. I've gone to churches, temples, etc, and never found anything that genuinely fit ME. I always liked bits and pieces and kind of made up my own faith along the way. I loved parts of church, I always loved the singing, and I loved the meditation and the peacefulness I felt when I attended the Buddhist temple. But I never stayed long.
Dating James has brought out strange feelings in me. Feelings that although he is a part of my life now, there is still a void. Something is still missing. And even though I'm working full time and still have my hands full with Gavin, I still feel this void. It's very strange, but something has been drawing me to Christianity.
After reading one of my favorites on OpenDiary, I kept thinking to myself, I want to be more like that. Although she may not be perfect, and she may be younger than myself, I still find myself drawn to reading her diary. Even though I wasn't brought up with Christianity in my home, I still think we have some of the same beliefs when it comes to the home and relationships. I was brought up to think that men made the money, they were the "kings" of their homes, while the women stayed home and took care of the house and the children. I would love to have as many children as I am able. I tell people "I'd love to have three more" (and this is in addition to my existing 1) and their jaws drop. Today, children are seen with a price tag on their heads. We can't AFFORD another is what I always hear. Children are a blessing, not an item bought at Target.
So I decided to start to write a story of my journey. Now I better get to my Sunday cleaning before I stay on here all day!