Over the weekend, mother made an exciting discovery - there’s a robins nest outside my parents bedroom window… and she’s become obsessed with watching the eggs… completed with facebook status updates. One egg went missing over the weekend… talk about empty-nest-syndrome!
Check out the detail in that nest-making-skills!!
Well it was quite the weekend for me. You would think that things would be rather quiet over a long weekend, but quite the opposite happened. Over the past few weeks I have been waiting on a position that was offered to me at Everything Wine, taking me from a fantastic and reliable cashier to a position with the management team, then Auxiliary Supervisor… I was approached by my managers who said I should apply for the job and so I took a leap of faith and went for it… I was told I would hear back on Friday night about the final decision… Friday came and went with no announcement. The anticipation was killing me but I knew I was facing one of life’s greatest lessons – patience. I hate patience… this whole past year has been one giant waiting game… when will cBo Events finally take off? When will I find my career path? When will my blackberry stop rebooting randomly? WHERE IS SUMMER?! Makes me think of Sunday’s event… I went hiking with my friends Shane and Omeed… we’d planned to hike the BCMC… a trail that runs alongside (but not on) the Grouse Grind… we met at Omeed’s and decided to walk to the base, which is near Grouse. The rain started to come on and throughout the 90 min trek, we got pretty drenched and boy was it cold… we were even snowed upon and the highest elevations… which really didn’t work too well with our windbreaker and short attire. Anyways, one of my main goals was to do the trek and start to get back into shape. It was hard, humbling, annoying, & embarrassing. I was definitely holding up Shane and Omeed who were far too supportive to help an old dog up a mountain. All I was thinking for the first half as “I used to be able to do this… cmon body!” and was getting down on myself. Then at one point Shane said, “Bro if it’s too much we can turn around… it’s ok” and I just looked up at him and said “That’s not an option”. And I pushed on. I had to be patient and get to the end result when it was time… it was hard, sweaty, and mentally draining… but I did it.
Sean pulled me aside at Everything Wine on Sat afternoon to tell me that I’d been hired on as the Auxiliary Supervisor and welcomed me onto the management team. I had the pleasure of handing in my letter of resignation to my current full time job on Monday. I was surprised how internally emotional I became about it, mostly because of the people I’ve worked with over the last 19 months. That and realizing that I’ve been waiting for so long… it’s nice to have something finally going right.
I know what you’re thinking… what’s Everything Wine got to do with events? Well everything, really, in my opinion… so many more opportunities and connections and possibilities. And I’ve always figured that cBo Events would be a developing project on the side over the next 3-5 years; whereas what I’m doing at EWine fulfills so much of passions in life – and what better way to spend 9-5 than that?
And so the story continues… stay tuned.
Well I guess this is the beginning of cBo Events blog site... not 100% sure what this will all be about... as cBo Events is currently a dream, you'll certainly read all about my joys of starting up a business in this crazy world, as well as find links and inspirational ideas, sources, and venues that you, too, could use for your own events. All in all, I do hope you'll check in from time to time to see how things are developing in my world, and perhaps can offer some insight. All I know is this: I like parties. I throw good ones, and I want to help others do the same. Stay tuned... we're in for quite a ride.
