Rae on the Great 2016 Roller Coaster

I haven't posted in a few days - sorry not sorry to be honest. Today I wasn't feeling great so I've been napping a lot. Yesterday (Saturday) I hung out with one of my writing buddies again and we got a little progress made and she brought me tea and taught me how to pan-fry cheap fish, which was *awesome.* Friday I had my Dungeons & Dragons group over, and ran my first game session!

And then Thursday and Wednesday, well, I was just generally distracted by the fact that I got a promotion.

I'm not joking. On Wednesday morning, I read this article about optimism. On the drive to work, it was raining and the classical station was playing Sorcerer's Apprentice by Dukas, which made me giggle. And then I went to work and got a promotion.

Starting in June, I'm getting raise, new KPIs, and potential commission and bonus structure if I do well. Starting immediately, I've moved out of my cubicle and into a shared office with a window. I'm still a little in shock, even though apparently this was a done deal for a good long while. Multiple people knew it was set in stone before I did, ha!

WINDOW!!!!!

Now, for some background, my manager left in February of this year, just after management began to change up our organizational structure. I've basically been doing a lesser version of her role since she was here, excluding running meetings. I was the primary consultant one or two because I'm especially savvy with one of our products, but I didn't think it was any big deal until she told me afterwards. Before she left to move out of state, she told me that I absolutely had to apply for her job. That I was ready. I was, admittedly, interested in the pay raise, and I had finally realized a few months before that it wouldn't be insanely hard or stressful as I'd first anticipated when I was just working as an admin under her. So she helped me write a bang-up cover letter, and I brought that along with a resume I'd had updated over to management, and the department head (and my now-manager) responded with, "Oh! Oh, you're interested in that job. Good for you! Challenge yourself!"

It was a bizarre reaction to say the least. But then things changed, because the department head became my direct manager, and my work actually had the chance to be seen by upper management instead of just the one person who left. And then I made a small sale on my own - granted, it was low-hanging fruit. I just said, "Hey, since we just finished this project for you, do you want another one?" and the client went, "Yeah, let's do that." Easy, and fairly small, but still required the ask.

So... hard work results in progress sometimes. Who knew? It just comes at such a good time in my life. I'm going to go chat with a Wells Fargo mortgage officer on Tuesday, not necessarily to apply for a pre-approval, but to tell him my situation and to be frank in the fact that I am probably going to apply with them once we are ready to buy a house, but I want to get my ducks in a row first. I doubt that any lender is going to be upset if their potential clients are doing their homework first!

So yeah. Roller coaster two months. It's making it a little easier to start looking at those silver linings.

Anyway. I practiced harp today until my fingers hurt (woo!), but I just don't feel physically up to much, so it's time for more Netflix. Things downstairs are back to normal working order now that a full month has passed, which means cramps. And the way I see this, it's good, it's healthy. I'm not getting super emotional, which is kind of amazing. I feel normal again. I feel more like me. Now to keep up this progress.