WELL, I SAID I WANTED A CHALLENGE........

My training is going by REALLY fast. In just 2 short weeks, I will be on my own! All that my hands-on trainer is required to do is allow me an opportunity to become familiar with the telephone and computer system, learn some extra pointers and a few shortcuts. I am expected to continue studying the information in the training manual and learn how to enter locations into the system myself. We are being counted on to learn this job with the tools that have been provided to us, as well as being closely monitored by the supervisors on the call floor. But the guy that trained us did so thoroughly, and I was listening and learning the whole time, so I think I will be fine. I read and study every evening and during my breaks. It has been years since I have taken emergency calls, and I am a little rusty, but it's all coming back to me little by little.

One of my goals here is to become a trainer. Trainers at the call center have their own classification and pay grade, and are permanently assigned weekends off! I am watching one of the trainers in action (she is training one of my other classmates), and she is constantly on top of the new updates and changes to the system, and understands them better than the staff that implemented them! Yep, I intend to learn this job very well.

My trainer is a VERY nice lady. She is a pastor's wife! It is so nice to run across people who share the same values and belief systems! She has a VERY big family (one of those blended families), and is so proud of her children and husband. She and her entire family are very blessed. They know what it is to have and appreciate nice things. They work hard, and raised their children to. And she knows that she is nothing without Jesus, and is very dependent on Him, as I am. She prays and asks Him for success in all that she sets her hands to do, even on her job, like I do. And she knows that she needs help from the Lord, like I do. Relying on "your own" abilities in this day and age is a very foolish thing to do, and a very sure way to set yourself up for failure. It's called PRIDE. But the Lord promised in His word that if we humble ourselves, He will exalt us. And that's what I strive to do. I cannot do anything without Him. I know that wherever my feet land, His providence has sent me there. My mission is to please and serve Him, and hope that I will have completed whatever it is that He sent me there to do.

Anywhoo, that's a wrap as far as my training goes. I am nowhere out of the woods yet, but with His help, I know that I will do well.

The girls are finally up to date on their shots, thank the Lord!

My "new" clothes look awesome on me! LOL

My husband had a birthday this weekend, and we all had a blast helping him celebrate!

God Bless Obama and his family (Lord knows they need it)!

Adrian