Recent Accomplishments

Yesterday was my Coaching THISIT project presentation. I was extremely nervous but it was a great success!

Saturday, during my Girls Night Out event (which was not as big of a success as planned, $6.1/$8.8), my store manager asked for a sneak peak of my project. He asked me to restructure several of my line graphs and specifically asked for bar graphs. I tried working on it at work on Sunday and Monday but I was helping aother GSM with zone and Monday I was scheduled zone as well. Monday morning I was freaking out, Marc's idea was more confusing and hard to follow. Thanks to Jonathan (who always saves my life) my graphs were easy to understand and pretty.
All the MTMs and GSM's where there, SM, ASM, DVP, DDHR, L&D, HR, even Anthony and Eric came. I had a full room. I felt my voice shaky. I'm not sure why - I knew my slides, I knew my powerpoint, I had notes, I had already practiced. The good thing was that everyone liked it, people laughed, and it's over!

They had a cake for me in the end, which was really cute and really nice of whoever thought of that, picked it out and all!
THANK YOU!
I also found out I am getting my first assignment at Del Amo 511!! I don't know what my world will be yet but I'm getting one!

Picture from Flicker RXSQ

Some side notes

• Jonathan and I may be going to Berkeley for the weekend to watch the USC v. CAL football game
• I read an amazing article on DJing Your Wedding With An IPod it's a must read!
  

Redesigning THIS Room

This room was a complete mess when I first moved in. Everything looked like it was just thrown in the room. Angel's messy desk and huge chair were always on my way, the bed was flipped and toward the wall. I was using a stool as a night stand. Things were bad. This weekend I decided I needed to live in a less cluttered place. My parents took Angel's desk and chair out, Jonathan and I moved my bed around, took my nightstand out from inside the closet, bought a lamp and started to put some of my frames up (instead of my mom's non-matching ones). I think I'm still going to put her pictures up on the wall but I'm going to buy matching frames for them. I wish I had before and after pictures. I want to wait and see if my parents do buy a queen bed that way I can just buy a comforter for that, if not, then I wont invest in that. I'll just save my money. I am thinking of buying a comfy chair though. I want a place to sit and read or just use my laptop without having to sit on my bed. We'll see what I find!

P.S. My presentation is tomorrow and I'm beginning to freak out a little because Marc made me change several things, one of which I don't agree with... he wants me to change my line graphs into bar graphs, which is counterproductive because it does not show the upward trend!!! ahhhhh I can't wait until I get placed!

GREYS Tomorrow! ABC 9-11pm

Grey's Anatomy 2 hour season premier, September 24, 2009 at 9pm on ABC

Overwhelming week closes with love

I broke down on Thursday after the webinar at work. I felt so overwhelmed and behind on my work. A GSM was there when I started to feel that way and he suggested I talk to HR which definitely helped. On Friday, I did as much as I could to catch up, I uploaded 2 journals, spoke with our facilities manager, called Jacob Stoner and set an appointment with him, I called Art twice but he didn't answer, I made an appointment with the Receiving Manager for our shipping/receiving portion, and I also sat in conference call with my mentor. The only thing that I didn't get accomplished that day was my two hour time slot already set aside since Sunday to sit and talk to my mentor about my project.

Today I'm going to talk to Marc again and give him a list of things I need to do so that he can help me set appointments with my DM, DP, and DVP. I have to go out and set an appointment with the security manager and so far and so on. My presentation is a week from tomorrow so I've been working on it here and there but I feel that with all these appointments I'm not going to have enough time to "coach" which frustrates me MORE... arggggggg

Anyhow, this weekend was my first full weekend off and I got to spend it with Jonathan. It was as peaceful as it could get, we cuddled, relaxed, watched HGTV which made us want to move in now. And of course it makes me want to move in ASAP because I hate parting. Although "distance makes the heart fonder," I can't wait til there is no distance! I miss him. I'm going to try my hardest to save as much as possible, because I know he has his loans and car to pay off, I need to step my game up.

This is week 8 of my program. This month we celebrate our 22 month month-aversay. This year is hopefully the last year we have to travel to see each other.

Places I'd like to visit

I've thought about the new chapter in my life and incorporating traveling to it. I would like to commit myself to a list. I've always been tast oriented and like checking things off from a list, hence making a list of places I'd like to visit would probably work out!

• Costa Rica/Panama
• Chile/Argentina
• Dominican Republic/Puerto Rico
• Greece/Italy
  

What is my next puzzle piece?

Today I stopped by Leibner's 6th period English class, and I walked in when he was asking about the "meaning" of a "puzzle piece" in respect to a person's life in his lecture. It brought back so many memories. He mentioned how one person, one book, one event can change a someone's life and add a different piece to an ongoing puzzle. Little events can change the form of your puzzle. You also want to have several pieces to your puzzle, with multiple experiences and interests. Someone with few puzzle pieces can be easily figured out and be boring. It's all about giving meaning to each event and putting them together to form this never ending puzzle with pieces that come along the way. The puzzle is forming without a box with a picture to tell you what the puzzle is supposed to look like in the end because there is no end. You have an idea of what the form is once you have one or two pieces together to work with, but once that part is completed it's up to you to add a new piece and continue the puzzle.

Right now my puzzle has several general pictures. It includes Carson High School, UC Berkeley, Political Economy, International Corporate Law, Berkeley High School, Stiles Hall, AmeriCorps LBSA, Law School/LSATs, Macy's West (SF), Friends, Family, Jon, and currently Macy's Inc. But what is my next puzzle piece? What do I want? What am I currently looking to do besides just working at Macy's? What do I need?

I feel that during high school and college I was always super involved in the community and giving back and that's something that I am currently not actively doing. I would love to be involved again, I just need to figure something out with my schedule. I also need to commit to myself that I will begin to travel. I put that off in college because of my relationships with guys and now I want promise myself that I will begin to give myself vacations to learn, explore, live, and experience new puzzle pieces.

Macy's ODS

Today was extremely hectic. Macy's Friday Preview Day to the One Day Sale Saturday was a hit with the $10 off from 9am-1pm coupon. There were points during the day where I was even ringing, luckily we had a handful of on-calls start today which helped us with ringing and sizing rounders. I had one in juniors and I saw another one in lingerie. Too bad for them for starting on a one day sale, but at least they came in handy to the store. Juniors just needed $6 thousand dollars to meet plans for the month for the week, when I left at 5:45pm we had 5.7 in.

I'm just a little disappointed with the staffing changes Macy's is making. I've lost a total of 6 people since I've been here. Who is going to work in Juniors???

Tomorrow is Jonathan's birthday but because of this One Day Sale I have to work both Saturday and Sunday :( I'm sorry baby. I love you

Cal Football Schedule

Cal won its revenge game on Saturday against Maryland, 53-13!!! This Saturday, we play Eastern Washington at Cal at 2:30pm, which I don't know much about therefore we should win!

GO BEARS!

I'm Sick

Friday I was feeling so sick at work, I had a runny nose, drowsy eyes, a soar throat, headache, cough, and chills. All these symptoms scared me. The exec assistant even gave me an H1N1/Swine Flu information form. After work my mom and I rushed to urgent care and I was able see a doctor after an hour wait. I was diagnosed with: OTITIS MEDIA, NASOPHARYNGITIS, AND PHARYNGITIS. What is all this? Well, it's an ear infection, acute bronchitis, and tonsillitis/strep throat.

Saturday was college football kick-off and Jonathan and I stayed in watching his game, my game and others. Doctor said bed rest and luckily I didn't have to work on Saturday. Sunday I went into work but my mentor sent me home so I can get better, I actually feel like I got worse, my body was aching, my throat hurt more, and when I woke up on Monday I couldn't even move. I was in pain. Since I'm missed work, I worked on my project all day in bed, I'm also planning on working on my journal.

My test results from my saliva culture is still not posted online, I hope I get better soon.

On another note, I want to share some family pictures from Veronica's get-together.