Thursday, July 12, 2012

Last Day of Work ;)

I feel complete and utter peace leaving my job at the NCS today. I look forward to the adventures ahead. The only thing that was hard about leaving work was leaving the people I love to deal with that hostile environment. Best of luck to you all. I love you and will cherish all the good memories :)

Monday, July 2, 2012

Great Talk with Vonda Jump!

Vonda Jump expressed her sincere apology today for all the wrong that had happened to me in December of 2011 and in May of 2012. For some reason I've been targeted by some members in upper management for no good reason. It's nice to know there are some members in upper management that have my back and recognize the unethical nature of this Beast! The very valuable lessons I've learned from all of this is that feelings of hurt, anger or being on the defensive is not worth it (Richard G. Scott talks about how these feelings prevent us from receiving inspiration and revelation from the spirit). So all I have to do now if forgive those who trespassed against me and move on. God please help me forgive because I'm having a hard time. There is a lot of hurt. I'm excited to report the good news when this happens :)

Saturday, June 30, 2012

Logan Regional Hospital

Working my Mary Kay business today trying to set up shop at the hospital's break room at the Women Center. I don't know much about the rules in regard to break room facials; I tried looking on the MKintouch web page & found nothing.  I don't want to break amy rules, but I want to finish this year strong, so here I go! Get uncomfortable! I got the idea while listening to Monna's presentation on a Power Start Plus program her sister challenged her to do; she talked about facialing women at a Starbuck's break room and a her husbands law firm break room, so I figure all break rooms' are game if that companies okay with it.


Thursday, June 28, 2012

Submitted my 2 week Notice to the NCS yesterday. I was a little nervous at first and originally wanted to wait till October. But when you know it's okay to move on and you try to stick around it makes it really hard to show up to work.

This is what the notice said:

Dear Pat,
It has been a pleasure and growing experience working here at the NCS-Cache Site Office.  I have valued and appreciated the many opportunities I have had to contribute to its great success.  However, it is time for me to move on to a new chapter in my life.  I am formally submitting my two weeks notices as of today June 27th, 2012. My last day will be July 11th, 2012.
Thank you,
Cecilia Campbell

I'm happy to report I have no regrets and I feel complete peace about moving on.
The challenge now is getting through the next 2 weeks.

Friday, February 24, 2012

Rose Todd Showed Up With


Marriage Enrichment

Todd & I where planning on leaving Logan @ 4pm to make it to Provo for our marriage enrichment retreat by 6:30pm, but we had to pick up our awesome phones from Matt (4G, Epic Galaxy II S) before leaving and I had to say  goodbye to Ada & Izzy at the Pet Hotel (I wish we could bring them with us and have them crash at the hotel). So we end up leaving at 6:30pm, but it was worth it. I love our grils.

So far this retreat has been a classy, private and intimate one.  When we arrived they had snacks available and they had couples share thier stories.  They had us right down question and sent the women to our rooms to write down our response and the men stayed downstairs wirting their responses.  After 10 minutes they sent the men upstairs to meet up with us to share what we wrote down.

Todd's key did not work so he knocked on the door, come to find out he knocked on the wrong door when the woman who answered was not his wife.  I told him, "hon, this is not wife swap."  We had a good laugh.  They also gave the men a red rose to show up to the door with.  It was very sweet.

Here are some of the questions they had us reflect upon:
1) Why did I come to this weekend?
2) What do I hope to gain?
3) What do I enjoy about our marriage now?
4) What am I willing to contribute to the growth of our marriage
5) What qualities of yours attracted me to you?
6) Wha do I love and appreciate about you now?

They have a couple share their story and gave us 2 set of questions to reflect up and share them with our spouse.  We did this a few times tonight.

I'm looking forward to what we will l

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Layoffs

11 people were laid off work today.  I realized something was wrong this morning and decided I would read scriptures and pray to block myself from the negative energy I could feel permeating the milieu at work this morning (it worked; I managed to handle everything calmly).  I did all of this before I found out about the layoffs.  I was surprised to hear that Amy Wolters, Carol and Ben were let go.  I thought for sure I would go before Carol due to seniority.  Pat mentioned that due to my skill-set, Spanish and all I contributed to the Study are the reasons why they kept me.  How do I feel about it?....read my blue/brown journal.  I had a Doctors appointment in the middle of the news with Dr. John.  It could not have come at a more opportune time.

Some of the highlights from my session:
1) I mentioned it takes two to tangle and he said, "no, it only takes one to light a fire".
2) I talked about how HR mentioned that my work environment would provide me the opportunity for growth and development.  He stated, "not so, that a negative environment will leave scars and baggage and that if you have the opportunity to leave why stay."
3) I referenced scriptures and said well what about long suffering and charity.  He stated, "Joseph Smith was in Carthage jail, do you think he would have stayed any longer when he was let go because he thought it might do him some good.  He mentioned that scripture was meant for people who were unable to change their situation. 4) He mentioned I have four things going or me: two that were outside of my control (being Hispanic and a woman.  The other two he felt were very valuable: my ability to connect with other people/that I'm so easy to work with and lastly my intelligence (my thoughts on his comments: it was so nice to here those things, because it's been a while since I've heard any positive affirmation like that from a professional).
He also stated that I was a mentally stable, healthy individual and that I would only need one more session to be done (it will only take 3 sessions to deal with work related issues).

Went back to work, got filled-in with the rest of what went on by Pat.  Checked in with my team individually to see how they were doing.  Talked to Ben, gave him a hug and said goodbye.

Bought my dogs some huge bones to chew on (they loved them).

Went to din din with Todd at Firehouse Pizzeria.
Bought sympathy cards and made earrings for Carol and Amy Waltors as a parting gift.

To conclude here are the things I'm grateful for: I'm grateful for my talent to give gifts to family and friends that suit them.  I'm grateful for the deep relationships I have (I feel fortunate for all the people I am able to turn to for support if needed). I'm grateful for Todd and Izzy and Adda.  I love walking the dogs up the canyon where they can be off their leashes.

Monday, February 20, 2012


Sunday and Monday Coverage

Sunday Todd & I attended all of church with Rollie Pollie.  After church we ran over to Todd's parents house to set up dinner for our visiting teachees (Kristi's and Ashlee's family).  We served 6 kids and 8 Adults.  It turned out to be a huge success.  The Lasagna and Salad were a hit.  For desert we had my chocolate bunt-cake, brownies and Aggie Vanilla ice-cream.  You could tell people were building connections with one anther and Kent Crandal mentioned that we (Jody and I) are the best visiting teachees  his wife has ever had.  He said he didn't want Todd and I to ever move out of the ward (that was nice to here).  This has been my favorite ward, other than the one I grew up in.

I called Marion before dinner to see if we could use her home instead of grandma Rosalie since Denna planned a dinner with grandma Rosalie for Josh's birthday the same day.  We found out about it a little to late, but fortunately we were able to use Todd's parents house.  In the end it worked out better.  There was more room to serve everyone and the kids had room to run around and play.

Today was a great day.  Slept in till 10am.  I tried to do energy work on Rosalie to help her distress, but that didn't work out to well (the work I did do whiped me out).  All she did was laugh at the idea of it, so I had to stop and told her to let me know when she is open to it and I would be happy to help her out.
So instead we went on an awesome hike with the dogs up Juniper Trail.  It was gorgeous; lots of snow.  Todd played fetch with the dogs.  He would also throw snowballs up in the air for Ada to catch (that girl can get some air).

I made a heart bracelet for Rosalie.  She left before I could finish it, so I'll be taking it to her this Thursday.

Things I'm grateful for: I'm grateful that I enjoy cooking for other people.  I'm grateful for my health and the ability to walk/jog up the canyon with my dogs.  I'm grateful for Todd and his kindness.  Last but not least I'm grateful I've been able to get to know grandma Rosalie.

Sunday, February 19, 2012

Saturday 2/18/12

Had a phenomenal day.
Started with my Energy Class from Tammy Jenson.  Made some good friends and learned how to balance Chakras, muscle test and use oil for therapy treatment.  I love these new tools I'm learning.  I learned what fears I have and how to release them from my body.

After class I met up with Jody to make Lasagna for our visiting teachees' dinner appointment we have planned for Sunday.

On our way to buy some groceries needed to make the Lasagna:
Ammon (Jody's son) asked me why don't you have kids?  I said, "Because they are not here yet." He asked, "where are they?" "They're in heaven waiting to come down."
Latter in the day he referenced the statement i made about my future kids... saying, "When you have kids..." (and I wish I could remember the rest of his sentence, but I thought it was cute).

It is so much better to cook with someone else... especially when it's Jody.  We cooked Lasagna for 15 people and I shared with Jody some of the things I learned from class.  We had a great time!  We talked about Truth and Lite and decided we were going to duplicate a study the Japanese did in the past about proving that words omit energy buy using a jar of water and rise.  After some time about 3 days you see the positive and negative effects integrated into the rise.

Rosalie called at 5pm to let me know she was on her way to visit us from Salt Lake.  I'm so excited she's here and I have lots of fun stuff planned for us this weekend.  She walked the dogs, fed them and put them in their kennel.  I was extremely grateful for that.

The 5 things that I am gratefull for include:
I'm grateful for my ability to make friends easily.  I'm grateful for the social cues I can pick-up on.  I'm grateful for my family and their personalities.  I'm grateful for the gospel in my life and I'm grateful for the nice cars we get to drive.

Friday, February 17, 2012

Muscle Testing

Today was my first day of class with Tami Jenson.
Logistics of the class:
$200 per class
7 class total
2 days per class/once a month
$60 for the manual
Meet Fridays from 1:30pm-6pm; Saturday 9am-5pm

I had a great experience!  I look forward to becoming proficient at what I'm learning.













Thursday 2/16/12-Providence Canyon

I got to talk to Eli first thing this morning about what's new in his life.  It was good talking to him...I love him so much.  He's such a great brother!

After work I went running up Providence Canyon with Amy Nielson and our dogs.  It's always a pleasure spending time with her.  The Canyon was gorgeous!  There was about 10 inches of fresh powder on the trail.  The dogs loved it and are now sleeping like logs.

We had Scouts at 6:30pm with our Webelos and it was Coopers last day with us (man they grow up so fast).  Grandma Rosalie enjoyed watching them compete one with another for their fitness pin (from push-ups to sit-ups or how far they could jump).  To celebrate Cooper's last day we took Austin and Cooper's brother Andrew to Charlie's for ice cream afterwards.

Got home cooked Tia Chicken Chick-peas soup for our group lunch tomorrow.

It was a very productive fun day :-)




Wednesday, February 15, 2012

2/9/2012-Thursday-Row's Deadline


This is something I've been wanting to journal about.  Last week I got a phone call from my mother.  She mentioned that Rosalie was having a hard time at school and asked me to pray for her.  Also within that same week there was a high school student that approached Rosalie and mentioned they wanted to commit suicide.  Rosalie worked so hard trying to get that student help, which lead to other issues, but also during that time Row had this crazy deadline she had to meet in order to pass the first half of her internship. 

I called Row after getting off of the phone with mom to see how she was doing. I could tell in her tone of voice she was overly discouraged.  So after I hung up the phone, I knelt down and said a prayer for her.  I knew that praying was great but getting up and doing something about it would answer that prayer, so I called Cristina at 10:00 pm and explained Rosalie’s dilemma.  She hesitated, but agreed to go with me to Salt Lake from Logan to help Rosalie grade.  Cristina managed to recruit Claire Adams (that girl has a heart of Gold).  I called Rollie Pollie and told her okay you have an 1.5 hours to get organized before we show up to help you grade.

We arrive in Salt Lake at midnight and sang Rosalie her favorite song. “Relax don’t do it” from the Proposal while Cristina was dancing for her.  Rosalie’s response was classic… We get to work and help her organize and enter in grades into the computer. I went to bed at 3:40 am so I could wake up and drive at 6am.  Cristina and Claire stayed up till 5am.   We all woke up at 6am to make it to work in Logan.  I prayed for help to make it back to Logan without falling asleep and Heavenly Father answered my prayer (1.5 hour drive one way).  God answers prayers and helps us when we ask for it. I’m the type of person that likes to get things done and with God’s help all is possible!


Highlights:  Helping Row out and being her answer to her prayers that night.  Rosalie ended up meeting her deadline 2 minutes before 5 pm. She says she would not have made it without us :-) Praying for help to stay awake on the drive back home with only 2 hours and 20 minutes of sleep and no caffeine.  
Valentine card from Kim Graham reads, "You are ah-may-zing! I want to be like you! Okay. You're perfect. We get it"... my responce to that would be, "Tell me something I don't know" 8)


Valentine's Day 2/14/12

For Valentine’s Day I place a card with a coupon-book inside of it in the Camaro behind the steering wheel to surprise Todd.  I could tell he forgot to get me something for valentine's, in his tone of voice, when he called to ask about dropping off “Crazy Stupid Love” on his way to campus.  Around 11am Todd showed up to work with a card and a potted plant with no blossoms.  The card read I don’t know what plant I got you, but when it blossoms it will be a surprise.   The card was sweet and we went to Texas Road house for lunch.  Todd mentioned he hates the government telling him when to celebrate his love for his wife and prefers to do it on his own time.  Kyle Mumford from work also tried explaining how Valentine’s Day is a fabricated holiday via Wikipedia and history.com.  Frankly I don’t really care if it’s a fabricated holiday; any excuses eat candy and share the love with family and friends is all right with me.  Happy Valentine's Day!

Monday, February 13, 2012

2/13/12- Had a great day running up Smithfield canyon with one of my favorite peeps in the world... Amy Nielson-Campbell (she's hard-core).  On our way up the canyon we ran into a group of people who flipped their truck over (they were sliding around a corner and their tire got stuck in a rut).  We offered help, but they seemed to have it all figured out. Our dogs loved being off their leashes (sprinting back & forth as if they were on crack; crack babies Izzy and Sinbad).

Highlight of the jog: Aside from the awesome view and sunset...Amy lost one of her YakTraxs... I said a prayer and asked God to help us find it.  Amy running ahead of me (looking for it) missed seeing it.  I found it in the middle of the trail.  I knew God had a hand in helping us.  Heavenly Father will help us with all the minute details of our lives.  He loves us!  We just need to ask.