The fortune cookie is never wrong

My very first set of curtains ever

So it's just a link but I blog for work too. The pic is in my kitchen. I had the fabric for about 8 months before I actually broke down and learned to use the sewing machine. And how to attach grommets. Here's the link

A very tasty Tuesday, April 20

It's (finally) warming up in Buffalo.  That means grill time at my good friends' house.  Julie, Chris and Christine treated me to the feast you see above.  They made steak, chicken, potatoes, couscous with mushroom gravy, asparagus and broccoli rabe.  That's Sriracha hot sauce on the veggies.  I feel like I missed something but I ran out of room on my plate.  Yes, it was as delicious as it looks.  And yes, my friends are awesome.  Happy 20th day of April!

Apparently it's inevitable...

...change, that is.  Change is the theme of my very hectic worklife these days.  I have been privy (my very first use of the word, thank you very much.  i had to google it.  i would have thought 2 v's but i digress...) to big news at work for months now.  It's an ownership change, and the news will be broken on Saturday.  Rumors have been flying amongst coworkers, and I have been keeping my mouth shut... At least for the most part.  At the same time, I have been working on materials for the launch of the new company.  It has been a stressful situation.

I have been thinking a lot about change management.  Before the last 2 months, I laughed at the concept of the management of change.  With this latest experience, I am picking up what they're throwing down.  I am amazed at the absolutely ridiculous things coworkers will talk about to one another, which seem to be real concerns.  At the same time, no one will bring up their concerns to any person who is in a place to address them.  Anywho - no great life-altering realizations here.  Just that people say they embrace change and want it (hello - look at Obama's campaign strategy).  Deep down, it scares the hell out of everyone.

I borrowed the chart from http://changingminds.org/index.htm.