Excellence Award

So I can officially say that this is my first blog entry ever...My wife will be so PROUD! I showed up to work today excited to be off the phones for an hour and a half for our quarterly "Excellence" meeting. It is a lot of fun and was created to be a peer nominated award for people that stand out and go above and beyond. so it turns out that I was nominated by one of my team members and apparently he is a very convincing writer cuz I won. They read his entry, and though all of it was true, I was not expecting to win (hence the jeans, t-shirt, hoodie and Gel-less mission side part). It was given to me by my department manager and then I was congratulated by all of the top management. I guess I didn't really know what a big deal this was until one of the trainers afterwards came up to me and said that they had been with discover for 7 years and had never won this award. This was a good boost for me especially having recently felt like the hard work that I was doing was not appreciated. So the best thing about this is that I won $200 for winning this award and now have a chance to be awarded the "Pinnacle of Excellence," which would earn Sara and I an all expense paid trip to Chicago to be wined and dined by Discover for a week. So that's what is going on with me. Enjoy this cuz "blogging" isn't really my thing.