Flowers & Awards...

Last week some fun things happen so I thought I would mention them!

Monday was the first Valentine's Day for Brad and me and the boy did good!!! Mid-morning I got an email from our receptionist at work that I had received a UPS shipment. I was very busy working on s special project that day, so I didn't breakaway to go up and get it.

A little while later, our receptionist came and found me. She informed me that there was a person waiting for me in the lobby. So, I headed up there to find Brad holding lunch! Sitting next to him on the front desk were flowers... the UPS shipment! (It hadn't occur to me that it might be flowers... why? Well, because of the wedding, I THOUGHT we had agreed to not spend any money on Valentine's Day. Apparently Brad ignored me...) So, we found an empty conference room and enjoyed a surprise lunch of one of my favs- Rudy's BBQ. It was a sweet surprise and couldn't have come on a better day. The project I was working on was exhausting.

Later that night we enjoyed a nice dinner at one of our favorite local Mexican places and a low key evening. It was perfect first Valentine's Day!

The next day at work, we had an "All Hands Meeting" for Engineering and Operations. These are quarterly meetings for these two divisions that are under the same VP (I am in Operations). These meetings are actually held at HQ so we can either listen to them on the phone at our desks or go into a conference room and watch a video feed. I was very busy, so I opted to listen at my desk. These meetings are typically very boring... lots of Engineers talking, projections, sales figures, etc. The most interesting part is at the end... and they purposefully do it that way so everyone stays! 

Every quarter, we are giving a ballot to vote for people in our division that have done an outstanding job. We are allowed to vote for one person per department (Shipping, Facilities and Order Admin make up Operations). Those are then totaled up and those people are given their department's "MVP Award" for the quarter. Well, imagine my surprise when MY NAME was called!! I think I gasped (or shrieked) at my desk! I was then given the choice to choose from a list of prizes as my reward. 

The award meant so much to me since it was voted on by my peers. That is the biggest compliment one can receive at work. It has been a long and sometimes tough year. When I started in January 2010, I was the only Order Admin employee in our Austin site. I was managed remotely and all of my teammates were in California. Since then, we have hired 7 new people, an Austin manager AND the company has moved the department from CA to TX which meant 2 people transferred from CA. Not the OA Department I started with!!! It felt great being recognized for all my hard work and dedication.