Dancing Again (and not the kind I really like..)

Today was a different “Dance Monkey Dance” Day.  Today was picture taking day for the Superior Accomplishment Award that the team will be receiving next month.  While I generally take time to look nice for meetings, etc., today was one of those days where you know your face will be immortalized on the hallway wall for a year, and forever on the web.

I was honored to receive an award last year, and my picture was duly posted on the hallway wall in January…where it will reside until the end of December.  It’s a nice picture, but the comments I get….”Hey, saw your picture on the wall”, “Is that your picture on the wall?” “Moving up in the world”, “When are you getting into management?”, and it goes on and on.  The picture session was a lot of fun, and we wanted to do something different with the pic…so we came up with this one…

It’s not the greatest picture, but its fun.  He asked me if I had plans on getting into management, and I said that probably some day.  He said, “Ok, we won’t use it”.  To which I replied, “Look, people know me as fun. The day that stops’ happening is the day I walk. We’re going for fun.” He laughed and said ok.  Management shot it down, but still, it was fun pretending I was a supermodel for a day.

I really prefer to be on the sidelines and let my teams shine…they’re the ones doing the brunt of the work. I have a hard time when the focus is on me. You don’t necessarily see it, or know it unless you know me…extremely well, and most of the people I work with don’t.  I’d say there are about 10 people out of over 6,000 employees who really know me and that I’ll hang with outside the office.  When the focus is on me, I tend to go a little over the top, because I don’t know what to do with the attention. Do I dance, sing or something along those lines? UGH!!!

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Today the Geezer was talking to a neighbor about my gate.  I could tell because they both kept motioning toward it and moving their arms as if to route direction through the gate.  I have to keep my eyes open. I've already had it damaged twice, and I don't want to have to fix it again.  Wait until I put a permanent fixture there.  Wanna talk about not being able to damage it? We'll have us a time!

Anyway, Dizzy is tired.  She's gonna see if she can get some sleep tonight. G'nite peeps!