I'm back

Did you miss me? I missed you! The training class was great - I met some great people, spent a few hours dining with the new CEO (after the merger) which was great. My impression of him had totally changed by the end of the dinner which was pretty cool.

Rather that learning skills based stuff like delegation, communication etc this was more strategic in nature. We learnt theories and suggestions on how you mobilize teams to achieve results. While some of the exercises were better than others, I really enjoyed the theories.

I thought that I'd been pretty good at eating while I was there, and even managed to get 20 minutes of the elliptical but I had still put on a couple of pounds when I got back (probably due to the few drinks I had each night), but I'm back on the straight and narrow already - I even went to a spin class last night.

So, I'm back to writiing my food and exercise journal as of today.

In other news, my boss gave me a 5% payrise, which was cool until I realized by moving to an annual bonus scheme (from quarterly) and with the % of bonus she assigned me I'm actually going to have less money month on month. It'll be nice to get a annual bonus, but the smiles I had disappeared. It also confirms for me once again that I'm severely underpaid. My company's policy is pay rises are once a year, so when it changes it makes you wonder.

I did have to work a day last Sunday but I did get an award for that work, amounting to $2k....so I'm off on the website trying to figure out where to go and what to do:) Travelocity are now on the list of merchants I can get certificates from so i can feel a holiday coming on.

That's it from me - more later!