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Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Just listening

Today was a long, long day. The kind of day that starts with the airline you're about to fly filing chapter 11 bankruptcy and just goes from there. The kind of day filled with venom spewing employees who heard what they wanted to hear during an information session and other employees who feel like just because they have more zeros in their salary then you do, they can be a holes. Top that off with organizing the clothing and social schedule for an 8 year old. (Let me just say, I am so excited to hear Carolina sing with her school chior several times in the next couple weeks, but seriously 3 performances in a week. Why is her school afraid of spacing these events out?) Sigh... I digress.
However, through all that I found what I was most thankful for; people who let me vent. My coworkers both local and elsewhere who sympathized with my stress over packing for an 8 year old to crabby employees. I like to think I return the favor, I'm good for a sympathetic ear and exclamations of "that sucks" at appropriate places but today I needed ears to bend and they were there for me! I'm thankful for that. There's something about the simple of voice frustrations to other. Problems don't need to be solved, just the act of listening and sympathizing is more than enough. I have a feeling I'll have more days like this soon as I get stuff things ready at home and at work to leave for two weeks and I'm thankful that I'll have my people there to listen to me when I need to vent! As soon as I'm back stateside in January, I'll repay the favor to all! :)

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