Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Work Work Work

Work is right! Work is great and amazing and wonderful and sometimes down right boring! It is also a great blessing to have a job. One of the interns that worked with us last summer came by to check things out and try to get his name on the boss' table. I asked him how the job search was going and he said slow, very slow. I feel fortunate to have a position at this time with Kiewit.

Today was great. We had an estimators training complete with pizza. I love pizza. If I was a dieter and had just one weakness, it would be pizza. Unless, of course it had olives on it. The only downside to the meeting was that I found out we all must present one course in the series of estimator training series we have started. Oh well. I think I will just take treats.

As any good parent I am continually impressed by our son and how much he is learning and doing. I try not to brag too much but I do find it difficult. But it dawned on me recently that the times when I am most impressed, most proud, is when I am simply listening to Apollo. It hit me that I should probably apply that to the rest of you humans out there! I should probably listen a bit more to my coworkers, friends and family. Who knows what I will learn if I can do that? A wise man once said that God gave us two ears and one mouth so that we would listen twice as much as we speak. I think I usually speak about twenty times as much as I listen. And that's not counting the voices in my head! Well wait, what if I listen more to the voices in my head??? Now I'm getting side tracked and picturing myself in a cartoon for some reason. The point is I am trying to learn how to listen more. So, if you ever need someone to talk to feel free to call. I also have two eyes so feel free to e mail. Just send your complaints and worries to www.idontcare.com. Okay thats a joke. See what I mean about the whole listening thing? Here I go again. Getting sidetracked and twirling off into another animated feature. Have you ever seen my collection of Scandinavian credit cards?

I better go before this gets worse.

Saturday, February 6, 2010

"What's with Today Today?"

If you can tell me the movie from which this quote comes. You win a prize that will be awarded at an uncertain time, in an unknown fashion and is of course.... unknown.
Moving on....
Neither Carly nor I have written in our blogs in a long time. But today I wanted to share a little good news. I got a raise! Woohoo! I guess its sort of the standard but it came with some perks. Like, how the heck do I get a raise during a recession??? And, "hey Brian, thanks for hanging around". Well I am happy and I am hopeful that things keep going well with this company. We just had our annual district meeting in Prescott Arizona. It was awesome. All expenses included at a beautiful resort. They even had some entertainment including a hypnotist, comedian, music, dancing and plenty of food. They even payed for everyone's flights down! I think we came away from it making money! Thank you Kiewit. And thank you to my mother for watching Apollo while we were away.

Well The super bowl is tomorrow. I'm really torn. On the one hand the Saints, formerly the AINTS, I want them to win just because they haven't yet. On the other, the Colts. I like Manning but they also have a BYU grad on their team. So who do I cheer for???? Obvious!!! Go SAINTS! WHO DAT by 14! That my hope, not prediction. I really think it will be a three point game. I can't wait!

Well I am hungry and we got dinner from The Honey Baked Ham! I look forward to the extra ten pounds!