Lots of Gas

Today at work we had a gas leak! So everyone was evacuated into the freezing cold. 

Now that my friend Max works at Myler with me, I went and hung out in his car for about 20 minutes before they finally told us to come back at 9:30am, which it was about 9am, so Max and I decided to go see the Mt. Timpanogos Temple!

It was probably about 20 degrees outside, so we were freezing!

We then went back to work and it happened to be "Employee Appreciation Day" at Myler so they served everyone breakfast! It had a ton of cinnamon rolls, bagels from Einstein bagels, muffins and fruit from Costco.

Then after a few hours the Fire Alarm going went off, which they were apparently "testing" the CO2 alarms to see if they worked. The whole day it smelled like gas and I'm pretty sure they should have legally let us leave earlier. A girl fainted downstairs, people were getting light-headed and had headaches and stomach aches...so around 2pm my Team Leader came around and told us that we could leave if we wanted to. So I finished up the work I had to do and got off at 3pm! Sweet! Not too bad for a friday, besides breathing in gas all day, and coming home with a cough. haha

TCC OSS!

If you've been reading my blog lately, you probably know that Ryan has been doing AMAZING at work, so last month he had an interview for an OSS position. There were 3 positions open in a few other departments and a few weeks ago he found out that he didn't get one of the three...he was pretty bummed. But HR had sent him an email saying that "he wasn't declined and they're still considering him for a position". That was pretty confusing because there were only 3 positions and the 3 positions were full. Well today he got a call from the OSS supervisor in TCC offering him a position! He was soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

excited :)

TCC (Top Customer Care) is the department that he has been in for most of his time at eBay, and he's excited to stay in that department and now be OSS (Operations Support Specialist) which means that he won't be on the phone nearly as much and he will be couching and training the representatives in TCC! It's so exciting!!

He is so excited that he hasn't been able to focus on his 10 page paper due tomorrow, but luckily the paper is almost done! haha
 With all the pro's of his promotion comes a big con in my mind, but we knew that it was going to happen, but instead of Ryan and I working the same hours, Ryan will be "swings" which his start time will be anytime after 1pm-3pm...So pretty much opposite schedules. But he knew what he was getting into when he applied and he's still way excited! I'm excited in a lot of ways, but a little bummed that I will never see him. Luckily he will be working Mon-Fri with only having to work a weekend once every other month or so, but again, with a promotion comes some different things, both good and bad, but there are definitely a lot more good!!

And now tonight we are going out to Olive Garden with Ryan's parents and Chubbs to celebrate! You're amazing Ryan and don't you forget it!!

Quadruple Date Night!

Last night we had a group date night. We did personal pizza's out of Rhodes Rolls and also made some Pizza Balls that Kara made for us a while ago, it all turned out way good and we had a lot of fun! We also played Curses and Liar's Dice!

Love Max's face

Thursday: Blue and Gold Dinner

My sister Jennie is in charge of the food for all Scout activities and on Thursday I helped her out with their biggest event of the year! The blue and Gold Dinner! Jen did amazing and everyone was raving about the food! She did a Nacho/Burrito bar with sweet pork or chicken and it was sooo good! She even made Cafe Rio ranch dressing! Here are a few pictures from that night!

The buffet, then we also made the fresh tortilla's from Costco.

The lady in charge of the decorations had this cute idea of wrapping the Root Beer to look like scouts! So cute! Then they used the centerpiece as part of their dessert for Root Beer Floats!

The not-so-fun part of the night, all the clean up and dishes! There were about 12 crock pots used that night and a ton of bowls, I had to take a picture of some of the dishes. Plus the church only had 1 sink, so only one person could do it at one time.

It was fun helping out and to have some tasty food :)

For the record

If any of you know me at all, you know that I have the worst memory. I'm pretty good at forgetting what I did the day after I did it, so some or most of these posts may not be very interesting to readers, but this is our "family journal" so I want to put certain things in here so we'll remember them. So if you don't want to hear about how great Ryan is doing at work...don't read this post. You have been warned :)

In Ryan's Department they did an "eBay's Oscar's Party" because I guess the Oscars were recently, so their "fun committee" had voting going on to nominate their peers for certain "Oscars" so there were awards for each team last week and well, Ryan is amazing of course and for his team votes, he was voted "Best Animation" (which basically equals funny, entertaining, personally all that jazz and "Best Overall Performance" meaning exactly that, best overall performance in TCC with stats and what not. How awesome is that?? I know, my husband is great!

They took a picture of him at work all dressed up :)

So today was the "Black Tie Event" where people dressed up and TCC announced the overall winners (which the supervisor's chose)  for the Department, which there's about 180 Reps in his department. Well, Ryan was voted

"Best Actor" which for eBay's standards meant the best over-all Representative in TCC! Which is totally awesome! Plus he got some movie tickets to Megaplex for it! Woot woot!

Now for any of you that have worked at eBay or do work at eBay, you know how difficult it is to keep on top of all your stats with resolution, satisfaction etc. I am sooo proud of him!! So when Ryan told me that today, I went to get him a few treats after work before he got home. He was pretty happy about that :)

Jelly Beans and Pictureka game!

I love you Ryan! Keep up the hard work in school and work!!