A random thing about work

Every quarter the company picks a charity to support, based on submissions from the employees. This October it was Northwest Hope and Healing, which I insensitively think of as "the one that gives out the 'welcome to cancer, sorry it sucks' baskets". (Understand that I loved my basket with all of the little goodies in it -- the lotion, the chap stick, the little journal, etc. It gave me a lot of comfort.) In addition to the baskets, the group also helps pay non-medical bills -- food, rent, electricity and so on -- for women going through breast cancer treatment. So I signed up to help. I donated a bunch of body lotions, hand sanitizer, and shower gels (as I have a hoarder's urge to buy tiny bottles of that kind of smelly stuff) plus I helped assemble about 100 gift baskets. (The company as a whole donated about 6K in money plus the stuff for the baskets. Go team!)

Everyone that participated either with donations or in assembling the baskets got put into a drawing for a kindle fire. You see where this is going, right?

Yeah, you got it. I freakin' WON! I won a kindle fire! I am massively excited. I have no idea where I am in the queue, but I am hoping by the end of the month. Wooo!

Writing Day 2: Writing meets Reality

I had planned to do more writing at work, but unfortunately the day was filled with meetings. We are actually in a push to get a project wrapped up, so I kept having people drop by the desk all day today. So my writing time was pretty negligible, and I'm sitting at about 1780 words along with the need to figure out some of my background. Guess that's what I will be working on tomorrow.