Day 3!!  Team BAM!  Our group project has been going well.  We are a great group.  Each of us has a place and we hit the ground running.  So far so good. Go TEAM BAM!!!!

Day two was a bit rough as I started the morning not feeling well.  Our guest speaker Mary Carpenter helped me get through it though as she was interesting and explained how important it is as a leader and a person I might add to simply smile. This is something that comes naturally to me as I am a "smiler". When I first went to Air Force basic training my TI noticed this the first thing and never let me forget it. Evidently basic training is no place for a smile.  But as Mary stated today we need to smile, listen and show our co-workers that we are interested and invested in them.  This will translate to a stronger work environment and life in general.

Go team BAM!!  We have our team.  We have our project. We have a team goal and so far are achieving it well.  We all agree that the results of our group project are going to be very helpful.  That's a lot of "we" so far.  After all you can't have a team without "we". One day down!

Digging My Way Out

Here I am sitting in the middle of a big pile of stuff.  Papers, pens, pencils, notebooks, calculators, bags, folders, highlighters, markers, papers, computers, cell phone, medicines, books, papers, (did I mention papers?) are scattered all around me.  This is how I could describe my life at the moment.  Scattered.  

Today I am determined to put some of these papers away.  It's crunch time for my PLMI homework with no time to waste.  I won't even go into how difficult it has been to pick the tiny little budget my library gets out of the county budget.  We don't get a budget so I am constructing one from all these papers.  So here I am picking little budget tidbits out of papers. 

I will admit that I may be a bit sensitive to papers at the moment.  This past January I went back to college and have thus far completed 23 credits.  Obviously I have been working at breakneck speed and it may have taken a toll on me these last few weeks as I have had to take a break from it and start to unwind from the madness of full-time college, work at the library, PLMI, and life in general.  Funny how you think you can do it all and life lets you know that is not the case.  The last three weeks or so I have been having some health problems and my stomach, colon and uterus have decided it's time for me to slow down and guess what they won.  Slow down I did but now I am more behind that ever on everything!  So here I am in a sea of scattered madness trying to dig myself out one paper at a time.  

There are 12 days left in my college term with a new one starting July 1st.  I have got to get myself together and ready to start strong.  I will not let managerial accounting defeat me.  It may be winning the battles but I will win the war.  (I hope)  PLMI is heading to the finish line with a lot of work to be accomplished before the victory lap.  I admit it is highly stressing me!!!!!!

My poor house looks like a disaster area and I may wind up on a reality tv show soon.  Of course, the tv crew would need to cut through the jungle that is now my yard to reach me.  I'm not sure where I lost control in my quest to me superwoman but I clearly did.  That is so unlike me too.  This is new to all who know me.  I'm usually the super put together ready to go gal.  Now I'm just a scattered mess of papers on the floor gal.  

So here I am on this blog.  I actually came here looking for a mission statement that I know we created and I thought maybe I blogged about it.  Didn't find it but I did enjoy revisiting this old friend and thought it might be helpful for me to take a moment and share.  There may be others of you who are out there sitting in your own pile of scattered madness and it might just help to know you aren't alone.  

I'm not complaining per say.  I think this is just all new to me.  I like to have control in all situations and I clearly have lost it at this point.  But it's okay.  I know I have to do things in order of priority now with my health coming first.  If I can get through this next month of PLMI stuff it will be done and I can go back to concentrating on my accounting.  Hopefully somewhere in there I can gain control of my house and yard which will help me mentally for certain.  And drum roll here......I have a wedding to plan as my oldest daughter just got engaged last week.  

So when you see me at PLMI in July and I am looking a little ragged and am not my smiling cheerful self just know that bubbly Pamela is in there somewhere.  You may just have to dig through a whole mess of papers to find her.  

Pam's Point:  I'm in over my head at the moment but I'm still swimming.  Can't complain though because I remember times when I didn't even have any water to swim in.  

SENIOR YEAR!!!

GREETINGS TO ALL!!

It's our Senior year and we are close to graduation!  Is everyone ready for a bit more homework and one last week of hardcore preparation towards that diploma?  Get your blogs in order and see you all in July!!!

Go PLMI Class of 2015!!!!!