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I have a new part time volunteer job and I'm really enjoying it. I'm helping out in the office at the United Way of Wells County. Today was my second time there. I'm really enjoying it. For the most part I had no idea what the United Way was all about so it's a real educational experience for me.
Last week my first educational experience there was learning to transfer phone calls without hanging up on the caller. My apologies to that first caller. Fortunately she called back. Most of that first afternoon was free time so I started reading through the 211 guide. I am amazed at the help resources available for people in the area...and saddened that we have the need for them.
Today I learned to check inside my clothes before leaving home. I didn't learn it until I was at the United Way though. I was standing in by the copy machine and put my hand on my hip. What was that lump? Uh...okay, what was that sock doing in my slacks? LOL
The other big thing I learned today was how to enter children into the Imagination Library database and send out the welcome letters to their families. The Imagination Library is a really neat program. It is free to all children from birth to age five. They receive an age appropriate book every month. United Way of Wells County is the Wells County affiliate. If you live in other areas you can find your local affiliate on the Imagination Library website at http://www.dollysimaginationlibrary.com. If you have a child age birth to five years of age I urge you to sign them up for the Imagination Library program!
Last week my first educational experience there was learning to transfer phone calls without hanging up on the caller. My apologies to that first caller. Fortunately she called back. Most of that first afternoon was free time so I started reading through the 211 guide. I am amazed at the help resources available for people in the area...and saddened that we have the need for them.
Today I learned to check inside my clothes before leaving home. I didn't learn it until I was at the United Way though. I was standing in by the copy machine and put my hand on my hip. What was that lump? Uh...okay, what was that sock doing in my slacks? LOL
The other big thing I learned today was how to enter children into the Imagination Library database and send out the welcome letters to their families. The Imagination Library is a really neat program. It is free to all children from birth to age five. They receive an age appropriate book every month. United Way of Wells County is the Wells County affiliate. If you live in other areas you can find your local affiliate on the Imagination Library website at http://www.dollysimaginationlibrary.com. If you have a child age birth to five years of age I urge you to sign them up for the Imagination Library program!
EDIT: With the help of parrotletparrot and the site http://shadypines.com/descgr.htm we've decided that Opie is probably Forpus passerinus viridissimus.
I LOVE Mike Bettes from The Weather Channel. During the Vortex 2 tornado project he live streamed video every day at noon and I watched him as often as I could. Of course I'm a nut anyway for watching the different storm chasers. Usually I'm asleep and don't see him and Stephanie (their Twitter ID is abramsandbettes) when they're on in the morning. This morning I was (still) up and caught their tweet to send in your weather pictures or videos. It was foggy so I thought I'd take a picture of the fog over our pond. Surprise surprise, when I went to take the picture there was some guy out there fishing! I don't know who he is, maybe the neighbors' son, but he was just on national TV! I videoed it on the TV.
Small version of the original picture.
Small version of the original picture.
This guy's got it right!
LETTER FROM THE BOSS:
As the Ceo of this organization, I have resigned myself to the fact that Barrack Obama is our President and that our taxes and government fees will increase in a BIG way... To compensate for these increases, our prices would have to increase by about 10%. But since we cannot increase our prices right now due to the dismal state of the economy, we will have to lay off sixty of our employees instead. This has really been bothering me, since I believe we are family here and I didn't know how to choose who would have to go. So, this is what I did. I walked through our parking lots and found sixty 'Obama' bumper stickers on our employees' cars and have decided these folks will be the ones to let go. I can't think of a more fair way to approach this problem. They voted for change, I gave it to them. I will see the rest of you at the annual company picnic.
LETTER FROM THE BOSS:
As the Ceo of this organization, I have resigned myself to the fact that Barrack Obama is our President and that our taxes and government fees will increase in a BIG way... To compensate for these increases, our prices would have to increase by about 10%. But since we cannot increase our prices right now due to the dismal state of the economy, we will have to lay off sixty of our employees instead. This has really been bothering me, since I believe we are family here and I didn't know how to choose who would have to go. So, this is what I did. I walked through our parking lots and found sixty 'Obama' bumper stickers on our employees' cars and have decided these folks will be the ones to let go. I can't think of a more fair way to approach this problem. They voted for change, I gave it to them. I will see the rest of you at the annual company picnic.
