Fighting the Dark Cloud of pudge!!

Thanks for the great comments on my last blog.  It is nice I have so much support here.

On a happier note, today I was honoured at a conference by the Ontario government.  Roughly 10 years ago when I was a training coordinator there, I created a conference for the clerical staff.  They were widely overlooked for training for quite some time.  The conference I created was in such demand that we had a second conference to accommodate the 250 on the waiting list!  Fast forward and now not only have there been conferences for almost 10 years, but each year there are three in the greater Toronto area so that those in the east and west do not have to venture downtown.  I also learned that all across the province they are holding annual conferences using my original template (which I wrote up as a manual).  Really, I would have been more careful with my proof reading if I had known it would last the test of time!

Apparently a patchwork quilt was made of legacies in the provincial goverment and the conference has its own patch! Needless to say I was a proud mama today!  It had been my plan to start the conferences but eventually to have enough clerical staff trained that they could take it over and then train the next leaders etc.  Well over time these people have gained skills and moved on with their careers.  Coincidentally, now two of the chairs hold training positions I had had in the govt - the one I held when I started the conference and the one I held when I left the goverment.

Personally, I always thought the fact that 1/2 of my committee went onto promotions was as impressive as the actual conference.

This certainly lifted my spirits (as well as getting your emails!)

Cheers!