Random Stuff

I love the fall colors and the cooler weather, it signals that my favorite season of the year is coming, WINTER!! Time for snow and turtlenecks and sweaters and I know I am jumping ahead a little bit but the cold in the night air when I am going to work and in the morning when I get off of work has the smell of winter.

It is very strange working while everyone else is sleeping. While I am in the Fab I don't really notice it because of all the fluorescent lighting and the fact that there aren't any windows, but it is very different when I leave for break and the streets are abandoned and it is so dark outside. It has been an interesting adjustment to make. I am enjoying my new shift, everyone has been very welcoming and I am having fun learning new things and having more responsibilities.

Colton is taking basketball at school and he has not really been very athletic in his life, besides wrestling, so it is a challenge for him, I offered to practice with him, I love basketball.

Some of my favorite memories are of my family having Bar-b-ques every summer and playing b-ball in the driveway. I miss that. We need to have a family reunion that is all bar-b-ques and basketball and some middle of the street football. Oh and we can't forget a friendly game of Mario-Kart 64. We also need to have a snowball fight where I start crying because my "sock" gloves aren't keeping my poor little hands warm enough so I have to go in and run my hands under hot water every 10 min, then Rochelle can call me a big baby and write "Brit stinks" on a wall somewhere, and then we can roast some marshmallows and gummy bears and sit so close to the fire that someones shoes start to melt, while we all laugh at the same old stories that we tell every time we all get together, jeez I miss my family. I wish we weren't all spread out so much and so busy in our own lives that the only time we all see each other is at a funeral. I love and miss you all!!!

Promotion!!

A few weeks back I applied for a new position at work, it is a lead position over four different areas in the fab. I was hopeful that I would get one of the eight positions but after finding out that 29 people, all with more years of experience than me, had also put in for the jobs I was a little worried.

Today the official announcement was made so I am excited to tell everyone that I got the job!! Hooray!!

The following is the e-mail that was sent.

Salt Lake Employees,

Recently, eight Production Fab Specialist openings were posted. After going through an interview process, the following individuals have been selected:

Photo/Etch
Diffusion/TF/Implant/Epi
Backmetal/Backgrind/CMP

Shift 1

Britteny Eggertsen
Becky Skola

Shift 2

Ponn Srey
Wes Howard

Shift 3

Tyler Socwell
Jeremy Hunt

Shift 4
Zach Davis
Kristi Miller

Please join me in congratulating and supporting these individuals in their new roles.

Regards,

Ken

The only downside is that the shift that I got is a graveyard shift, so that is definitely going to be a big change and will take some getting used to. Other than that I am super excited. I start on Monday so wish me luck!!!

I can't believe I'm 30

I recently celebrated my 30Th birthday and I still don't feel like I am as old as I am. I remember when I was little thinking that 30 was old, now that I am 30 I don't feel old but I still have it in my head that 30 is old. I feel like I have to grow up now.

I got a new bike for my birthday because I want to lose weight and I feel like an easy way to do that would be to start riding a bike to work everyday, I only have a few months left before the weather will make it difficult but a few months is plenty of time for me to lose 30 or so pounds, right? I did a test run after church today and it took me 14 minutes to get there, not bad because I expected it to take 30, I hope to get to a point where I can do it in 8 minutes, maybe after 30 pounds of fat are gone I will be able to, anyway here are some pics of my pretty new bike.