Mellie Dee ♥

Thankful for Jamie. She forwarded me the invite to the IT conference after our lunch last week and my boss said I was able to go. I was able to throw Christopher’s name in there as well. We think she said yes because it was free and on campus but we didn’t care.

We got in early as usual and got some work done before the conference started at 8 am. We were given Shipley’s donuts and kolaches along with coffee.

They talked about Python and Salesforce and were given some swag. The little character is so cute! I wish I could draw like that! I am hoping that I am able to get training for both of these things. Salesforce is free with their Trailblazer courses so even if she says no, I can do it on my own.

Speaking of, I’ve been taking an online class after work, whenever I have time. I’ll get a certificate on it once completed but it’s two weeks worth and I am behind. BEHIND. Sigh … I’m already failing. Luckily I read that we can push our due dates so hopefully that’s true.

We played a round of people bingo. First four wins gift cards which I didn’t know about until I was the first to yell bingo! I won $25 just because I needed to start networking. What a great incentive.

We had an hour plus lunch catered from Pita Pit. I got the gyro. I saved the cookie for Sissy. She gave up sweets for lent and now that it’s over she’s been trying to get her hands on as much sweets as possible.

Christopher and I were lucky, sitting at a table of a lady that’s a manager in one of the IT departments. Hoping that she and her team that we met can help us in the future. Who knows. Networking is hard and keeping the relationships are harder.

After a few more presentations, we were able to play with the things they brought from the lab. An iPad that has an application where you can see the physical instructions while you’re physically doing them on site, virtual reality to drill a well, and a drone simulator. There were a few more things they had but those were the only things that I could take a picture of.

It’s been a great experience and I hope that I have more chances in the future to better myself. Having a career has always been important to me and was probably one of the biggest factors from my sadness last year. I felt I was failing myself and everyone in my life with everything I worked hard on since I couldn’t find a job and when I did and it wasn’t a job where I could grow or impact anyone positively. Here’s to hoping for a better future though, where my knowledge grows, always.

I came home expecting dinner to have started cooking since it was almost 6 pm. But instead, Sissy took all four pups out while I cooked dinner.

It’s funny how I needed to make three different types of noodle soups though. One’s vegetarian, one’s low sodium, non-spicy, and one’s with everything.

I actually liked coming home, having no distractions and the kitchen to myself. I didn’t have to think about what to make, what ingredients we had, etc. because I did all of that on Sunday. I didn’t mind having to cook after a long day at work since all the prep was pretty much completed beforehand. Washing everything was h*ll though but it did remind me of college life. Maybe I should start cooking a new dish a month again.

Also, Game of Thrones … I definitely called Arya and Gendry getting it on! Oh .. spoiler alert. Haha

Sissy came over today and will be staying for part of the week to keep me company. We went grocery shopping and picked up drinks from Kim’s Teahouse. Waves don’t crash into me as much as they use to and I think Sissy’s finally caught on to what’s going on.

Luckily, I had a task in hand to make Katrina’s one year old birthday onesie. It took awhile to figure out the heat transfer vinyl but I got it done in the end and am damn proud of myself. Maybe this is another thing I add to my list of things I can make side money on.

Erin and John invited me, Juhi, Christopher and two others to make some homemade pizza rolls. The dough was perfect!

And after a few minuted we were all enjoying our own pizza rolls we made along with garlic butter, marinara sauce and ranch. Juhi was nice enough to make us all brownies.

We’ve been sitting around talking about random things and it’s nice to talk about a whole lot of nothings with a lot of laughter. Then we started playing the Switch. I got to relive my childhood with Bomberman.

Does anyone else feel like this weekend went by super fast?