I walked through the door from my summer job and you came running up to me. I thought Brudda got you for my birthday but I was only destined to be your aunt. We gave you a bath that night and I took a million pictures of you, my first pup.

A couple of years later, Brudda and SIL got you a brother, Pluto. You guys played together all the time. There were months where you lived with me and Jenny in college and sometimes Pluto would join you.

Soon enough Mum and Dad got you an uncle, Rocky. You two didn’t always get along. The whole alpha thing got in the way but y’all will always tolerate one another and at rare occasions, play with one another which usually meant barking at one another.

Sissy, BIL and I gave you cousins, Kato, Bruno, and Rizzo, to play with. We literally became a dog house. It was loud and crazy at times but we all loved the memories attached to it.

We will all miss you. Thank you for all the memories you gave us. Thank you for opening the doors for our family to invite more pups in. Have fun in puppy heaven.

R.I.P. Krypto
August 9, 2019

My boss came to me to tell me she’s shifting me around once everyone gets back from vacation. One of my many roles will be transitioned to Christopher and I’ll be taking on part of Erin’s role. I’m not sure how it’ll go. I can only hope I do well. I am sad I won’t get to learn the parts I wanted to since it’ll go to Christopher now but I’m happy because I get to do more of what I love. One step closer to being a business analyst or something of the like. My boss even said I can become COE of Salesforce one day if that’s what I want. Oh, the possibilities.

Big Brother Big Sister (BBBS) came and spoke at work. This has always been a program I wanted to join but never had the time to. They have this new thing called Mentor 2.0 which means once a week, you touch base with them online, and then go to six events for the school year. Easy peasy! I’m excited to see who I match with and hope I’m good enough to help them through whatever.

This is me all the time except I do text back.

I haven’t had time to update the blog these past few days due to my workload BUT! my hard work paid off. This post isn’t to show off or anything. I’m just very happy that this is the first time since I started on this team, I feel like I was of use and not dead weight.

After weeks of putting together an initiative I deemed would be useful for one of the subteams I support, we got a sign off to proceed with the prototyping phase yesterday. This is a huge accomplishment in a world where people are not fond of changes nor spending time to make those changes to better efficiency and data quality.

One hour before a quarterly business meeting with the boss’s boss, I was tasked to run our team meeting since my boss, Maria, was going to be late. I chased after every team member for their parts and slapped it together in a presentation. It was a whirlwind but we got it done. I always knew I could work under pressure but that was really pushing it.

But the real validation came from seeing a product I put together in use the way it’s intended because they’re starting to trust the data. Seeing them constantly referring to the tool during their meeting made my heart happy because months spent on this product did not go to waste.

I’m on a high that this week, though it’s been crazy, has been one of the best ones I’ve had since I started on this team. I’m hoping that things stay this high for a while, at least until way after my vacation that’s coming up is over. That shouldn’t be too hard, right?

I used to go to The Joint for chiropractic adjustments since they wouldn’t break the bank and Scruffy would tell me how they weren’t real doctors and they could break my back instead. I got scared and never went again but now that my insurance covers a big portion of it, I went to my first legit one this morning and it was euphoric, to say the least.

I had an assessment then an adjustment (freaking ASMR with the popping), electroshock therapy, and stretches on the machines. The lady assisting my stretches was shocked at how flexible I am. The machine only went to 110 degrees and I could go past it. I can do splits so it was a given. The last part was possibly my favourite. I laid on this table where a rolling punch machine goes up and down your spine in sections. I loved when it hit my lower back.

I go back next Friday for an evaluation on how much has changed in a week. Hopefully, we can decide on once a month but if I have to come back every week, I probably wouldn’t mind. I also found out that he opened his practice on May 15th 30 years ago, 2 days after my birth. How crazy is that! It was meant to be!

I went to Sissy’s with Bruno and Kato bombarding my personal space as I put in some studies. They are so much better looking after their haircuts, don’t y’all think?

I took an Uber and met up with Salim, Vicky, and Justin at The Conservatory. Salim and I don’t work with them anymore so it was nice to band together and catch up. Soon, we were all walking back to “the office” together, bumping into Fahad and Tayeb. After a brief catch up, Joel showed up and we all disbanded as he and I walked to Starbucks for our catch up. We didn’t notice two hours had passed so we rushed back to his office for him to pick up his things while I wrote notes for Prisila and Noah. He was nice enough to take me back to Sissy’s instead of having to call another Uber.

The senior interns did their presentations last week to the owners of the company, higher-ups, etc. There’s a part where they have to mention one person that impacted them while they were at the company and Guisseppi chose me. ME! I was only a supervisor for less than four months so it’s shocking to me.

Many people may not know who she is since she is no longer an employee here but I chose her because I was very shy and she got me to come out of my shell. She was bubbly and easy to talk to, greeted me and asked me how I was doing to make sure every part of my life was okay, patiently taught me everything I know, and is just genuinely a nice and caring person.

Paraphrased from Joel who paraphrased from Guisseppi’s presentation

My heart, guys. MY HEART. If you go to my bucket list, you’d see “54. Make a difference in someone’s life”. I’m sure I’ve done this before, but to hear it, and for that person to announce it to “the world” makes my heart so happy. I also heard that the b*tch who gave me hell every single day I was there has tried adopting my personality but I’m told, no one is buying it.

This was a long post, but I wanted it to look back on one day so if you read it all, kudos to you! My heart is so full, and my back, though sore from the adjustment, is not in pain. It has legitimately been a great day.