What's on your pig?

How the tables have turned. About 4 months ago my friend Sal had blogged about some of us not working at Valley Diagnostic Clinic, Pat & I. Turns out I went back, and guess who's gone now? SAL! Of course, we are all happy he found a job that he will be happy at. Not that VDC isn't a happy place, but ............long story! Anyways, we went out to lunch at one of our favoritest place in Harlingen, BOOMERANG BABBA'S during his last week!

OF course, we called in advance to reserve some tables. Since the manager and waitor know us all so well...guess what they did for Sal? Just for him, the manager, Chris?Daniel? (inside joke) automatically said they'd put the "chicken tacos" as the special of the day. He'd always be bugging them for the tacos everytime we went. Although everything we eat there is delish! mmm! We have pictures to prove it! Pictures are in our phones or twitpic :)

For dessert we took him some sweet bread PIGS. We know he likes those, so Christi individually wrapped them in plastic bags. Each piggie was tagged with digiSal's famous phrases. It was fun brainstorming the phrases. Christi and I would text each other everytime we'd think of one. The phrases got better and better each time! Emily and I also had fun thinking of them.

Here are some of the ones we came up with:

• Maybe next year....
• Stomach hurts
• "Hey, I resemble that remark"
• It's "text," NOT texted
• Non-Texterbacker
• Put it on twitter!
• Just GOOGLE it
• Don't use a calculator, just call Christi
• I knoooooow!
• What did you doooo?
• That dirty rat!
• Did somebody say Wallbangers?

I know there are some I'm leaving out right now. He kept my little notes we had taken! We should have also put "Do you know how long it took me to get my hair to look like this?" or something like that........

ANY PHRASE YOU WOULD ADD?

I'm not in control, HE is

Yesterday was a day of happiness with a mixture of sadness. I've been employed at Valley Diagnostic Clinic for the past 4 years. I guess things are getting bad there, just as the rest of the world. "The Economy" blah, blah, blah...

A fellow manger and I got the call into Human Resources yesterday. The unexpected, yet expected? We got laid off! I can not say it was a relief, a shocker, nor was I mad, sad, or happy. Just weird. On Monday we got heads up, so we were prepared.

I have no choice but to accept what is happening. The Lord decided I did not need to stick around there any longer. He is in control, and I give him all the glory. The one thing I am so happy about is that I am surrounded by caring & loving Family and Friends.

I made so many neat friends there at VDC. I've learned different things from each one. When I didn't have faith in myself, they would jump in and remind me of the things I had accomplished. I LOVE each and every one of them.

My church friends have also been a tremendous blessing! I have been blessed all this day :) Imagine how the rest of my days will be :D

Meanwhile, I will enjoy and take advantage of this time and enjoy our children. I will be working on figuring out my stay-at-home-mom routine.

Anything but easy...

Today was one of the hardest days at work. Cut backs were made. It is not an easy thing to go through. I did pray before any of the cut backs took place. Fortunately, they went better than I thought, still not easy. I felt bad because I have a wonderful staff :( Even us as management are getting our salaries cut. I enjoy working @ VDC, so I will stick around for a while. Please pray for us and our director! I hope this passes quickly and everyone get back on their feet!!