Day 1

My mom suggested I journal (again... she says this literally every other month). Anyway, today, I felt she had a point.


My life is blessed (Thank you God). I truly give thanks to Him when I wake up and before I go to sleep, because the blessing keep coming and I don't want them to ever stop. My Joy is overflowing.


So why a blog today? Today, May 23, 2011, was my very first day at my new job as a Graphic Designer! Over the past, almost two years, I have been doing sales for a technology company. It just wasn't for me in the end and I was blessed (yet, again) with an opportunity to get just what I needed and prayed for, and then some.


I really did not know what to expect for the first day. It was a definite change form my first post-grad position. The space is a little cramped, but the people seem to be very friendly and focused. I was really excited to learn that everyone on my new team was black. Seriously, coming from white suburbia on the outskirts of Buffalo- I have always been sticking out like a sore thumb. That is something that I do like about living in Maryland these past couple years, is that I am not the only black person trying to make moves like me.


This is really the start I have been looking for in my life. I feel these past two years since graduation have been a great learning experience about myself and now I was ready for God to continue to open more doors on the path he has for me. I am really understanding that things will not happen until He wants them to, and often for MANY good reasons.


Today I was asked to start a few projects. I was excited and nervous. I am not sure of all the expectations of me, and I was pretty hard on myself. My parents helped remind me that it was ONLY the first day and it takes a while to get everything into gear (3 months). At the end of the day I felt that I had done well. I did however, end up taking a 2 hour lunch break to go sign the lease to my new apartment- not a good first impression!!! They will see that was only a slight indiscretion. Hopefully, they will love me.


Time for bed, I have to leave the house before 7:15am! (my other job had me starting at 9, and i was pretty much always late...) I am due in at 8:30am... yep... thats right, a 1 hour drive to work...


times... they are a changin.