Something new for me.

Hello! 
Again we are blessed with yet another gorgeous sun-shiny day! This is awesome and can SO keep right up 'til spring time! The weather predicting gopher last week said that winter was over, I think she was right! This is great! After the winter last year with a ton of snow and cold cold cold, this is a refreshing change! Bring it on!!

I got some exciting news last week.
Well, exciting to me anyways.

 I lead a quiet, one might say boring life.
Fine by me, that's just the way I like it, suits me well.
I work at the 'zeum every day.
I talk to folks, take their admissions, work in the gift-shop, clean, make coffee, answer the phone, what-ever needs to be done really. With a small staff and a small budget, you sometimes have to step outside your basic job description.
I have fun there and really do have the best job in the world!

And when I'm not working
I can usually be found at home
at the grocery store
at a friends
at my Moms
or
out hiking somewhere out in the middle of no-where geocaching.

In other words, I'm pretty predictable.

Since starting work at the 'zeum  almost 4 years ago, I have taken 2 different training courses. The first was a TVIC, a tourist visitor information counselor.
Makes sense to me, we are tourist destination.
And I see and talk to tourists every day.
O.K.
The 2nd was a retail sales associate.
Again, makes sense, we have a gift shop and that's a big part of my job too.
O.K.
These courses are a nation wide standard applied to over 50 different occupations
One must take training, write an exam, serve a minimum number of hours in the job and have an evaluation done by a secret shopper.
Not a difficult thing to do for me. I enjoy learning new things.
I also have my certification in food and beverage service also, with over 20 years experience in that field before I started working at the 'zeum.
So last year, the panel that sets the standards for these courses contacted me. Asked if I would help in re-working the standards for retail sales associate to pertain to the currant job market. The currant standards were set in the early 90's.
I said I would participate in this.
They said a few hours of my time over the next year or so.
Sure, no problem.
So I had a few phone calls, answered a few e-mails, had a conference call with a bunch of other people while on the computer at the same time, had a few more phone calls...
And since I haven't heard back from them since November, I kinda forgot about it.
Thought my part in this was finished.
So now I get an e-mail from them asking me to participate in a focus group to review the new workbook and have a voice in editing the final draft.

In Ottawa.
March 7-9th

Flight and accommodation paid for.

OMG