Speaking of shifting gears – for some ding dong reason I stripped gears today while driving.  Haven’t done that in a long time.  Must have been tired.  It was between first and second gear.  Weird.

The whole point of my choosing that title was actually because I’m now shifting gears from Thanksgiving to Christmas.  I had been so focused on Thanksgiving for six weeks during kitchen construction that it never occured to me there is life after Thanksgiving!

Actually, this Thanksgiving was wonderful.  I worked so hard to make sure the kitchen and house were ready and that the fest was just right since I missed it last year being in the ICU. It was perfect.  The food.  The family.  It was so wonderful.  Five days of no work.  Bliss. 

Since my family left last night today was the kick-off for Christmas shopping for me.  Actually, I bought my brother and sis-in-law’s gifts as well as nephew’s gift before they left so I didn’t have to pay for shipping.  Everyone else I pretty much did today.  Three hours of shopping and errands.  Whew.  I’m tired.  No, I didn’t really buy that much stuff for Xmas.  It was mostly runs to grocery, drug store, hardware store, things like that.  I hadn’t done my “chores” in five days so I had some catching up to do. 

Tomorrow.  Back to work.  Bummer.

Well, the VP of HR has decided I need to move out of Work Comp and go to another department.  Basically my position has been eliminated from Work Comp, where I’ve been for four years, and moved to App Support on a DIFFERENT FLOOR yet I support the same people and then some.  They are also making me leave some of my duties behind and I’ll be picking up new ones for other departments.  To say I’m livid is an understatement.   This also comes after 8 people were fired last week.  All in a company that claims it’s creating 50 – 70 new jobs as an article said in the city paper.  I’m very much considering finding a new job.  My five year anniversary with this company is on the 17th of this month.  I gain two vacation days but don’t gain any more for another decade.  How nice – jerks.  I’ve cried on and off for the last week and a half over this since I found out.  It was still up in the air whether the move was going to happen or not but I found out today it is for sure.  The people who I will be working with are as nerdy as they come and have no social skills.  I will be leaving an atmosphere of all women (25 of them) who get along well.  I kid you not – we get along well so this really hurts.  It’s like my family away from home.  Now I’m moving to a job that is just going to be that – a job.  Anyone know of any openings in the computer industry?