Pacifica, CA

Spent yesterday in Pacifica at the Best Western Lighthouse hotel. The weather was beautiful yesterday, no wind and the sun was really warm. Here are some ocean pictures and pictures of the room.

Half Moon Bay Flowers

Yesterday my friend Lynnette took me to breakfast at Buck's restaurant in Woodside, CA and then we drove over to Half Moon Bay and went to the flower show. She bought me these flowers for my birthday. Thanks Lynnette.

A week of change

This has been a very stressful week. All I can say is TGIF !!! The changes going on in my worklife are causing me to be very sad, and wondering "What did I do to deserve this? " I know that question is not valid, but this week I really believe this must be some sort of punishment. All I want to do is go to work, do my job, get paid a decent salary and go home. And now, I'm stuck in this new division with people who don't know what they are doing, having to travel back east for 2 days of meetings and that is just the beginning. Looking for a new job is always an option, but leaving behind the benefits of having 5 weeks of vacation and going back down to 2 weeks and the salaries out there are not equal to what I'm making, and not knowing if the next company I go to, is stable or will I be out of a job in a year.

Transfer is official

Today I received the letter that officially transferred me to a different division at work. The letter was pretty much a form letter and didn't really say very much, except the date of tranfer was on 4/9 and who my new manager is. Then there was documentation obout benefits and other stuff.

By the time I got back to my desk, I had 3 emails from my new manager. I was told she was into process improvements, which raised the hairs on the back of my neck. I have been through so many process improvements that really did nothing to improve the processes, it just made a lot of extra work to document processes and then after spending a month of writing documentation, the binder went on the shelf, never to be used again.

Well, Friday I have a 2 hour conference call training meeting on Six Sigma. Apparently this is all about metrics. You figure out what is wrong with a process, you define what you want to fix, come up with timelines and you measure the improvements. It's a lot of work. So I decided to order this book. Maybe it will give me a clue as to what I'm in for.

Work Prayer

Well it's Sunday evening, and I'm thinking about the work week ahead, and starting to feel depressed. I thought maybe there's a work prayer that I could read as I begin each day. I found this on the internet. Maybe it will help others experiencing stress and anxiety from work.


Lord Jesus, as I enter this work place, I bring your presence with me. I speak Your peace, Your
grace, and Your perfect order into the atmosphere of this office. I acknowledge Your Lordship over all that will be spoken, thought, decided, and accomplished within these walls. Lord Jesus, I thank You for the gifts you have deposited in me. I do not take them lightly but commit to using them responsibly and well. Give me a fresh supply of truth and beauty on which to draw as I do my job.

Anoint my creativity, my ideas, my energy, so that even my smallest task may bring You honor. Lord, when I am confused, guide me. When I am weary, energize me. Lord, when I am burned out,infuse me with the light of the Holy Spirit. May the work that I do and the way I do it, bring hope, life, and courage to all that come in contact with me today. And, Oh Lord, even in this day's most stressful moments, may I rest in You. In the mighty Name that is above all Names, in the Matchless Name of my Lord and Savior Jesus, I pray, Amen.

Half Moon Bay Weekend

Here are some pictures of my weekend in Half Moon Bay. The weather was sort of yucky on Saturday, with fog and rain, but it cleared Saturday night and Sunday was just a beautiful day. Went to church at Holy Family Episcopal Church and then spent some time at the beach.

How to handle a situation with grace

I've been writing a little about my job and the anxiety I feel about the upcoming changes. It's difficult to think that after 16 years, I'll have to report to someone who doesn't know me and is 3000 miles away. I feel like I'm starting a new job. This weekend I'm going to take a mini vacation or maybe I'll call it a retreat. I'm going to the ocean. I have found in the past that the ocean gives me strength. It's where I find God. I was talking to a friend this afternoon and he was saying that he was going to do some writing tonight for a seminar that he is forming. He wants to write about Grace. When I was driving home from work, I was thinking about that word Grace. I wonder how do I accept this change at work and other changes that are going on in my life with Grace? I hope this weekend, I'll be able to leave the anger, sadness, anxiety and all the other negative feelings at the ocean, and accept change with Grace. I don't really know where to begin, but maybe something will come to me, when I'm reflecting on this at the ocean.

Pigeon Point Lighthouse

I hope to visit here this weekend and take some pictures of the lighthouse.

Half Moon Bay Lodge

I'll be staying here on Saturday night and going to Easter Sunday Service in Half Moon Bay. Thanks Victor for the suggestion. Click on title for link to see the hotel.

No News

Well last Friday was suppose to be the day that I received a letter telling me about my transfer, but that didn't happen. Today I told my boss that if they wanted this to happen by next Monday they should be telling people soon. My boss told me that the transfer was effective today !!! Go figure.... So I have no idea who I report to. If it's true that the transfer was effective today then I now have a new manager, but I don't know who that person is. It's so typical for this company. They treat their employees like crap. Now I've heard that those of us who are being transferred are going to lose access to certain valuable functions in the computer system. Another way for upper management to play the "us vs them" game. So they are going to make it as difficult as they can for the new group to get the job done. Then when it falls apart, management can blame us the workers.

This whole process has made me really angry, sad, stressed, and I'm having a hard time dealing with it all.