Ending on a high note...

November 29 - Today I am thankful for being "one of the guys", I definitely believe that the other people on my team know that I am a woman but they have started to accept me as one of their own.  It's hard starting out on a new team and having to prove yourself all over to people you've never met.  Especially on my current team - since all 8 of us are new, there is an odd competition environment that I am not used to.  But I must have made some progress as my new team saved me a reservation for dinner and my new boss took me around to show me some projects he wants me to take care of.  Work is going well and I feel as though I will be able to make a really good impact on the company, which always makes me happy.

November 30 - Today I am thankful for my sense of humor, the conference room would get very up tight after hours of new engineers competing for the top spot.  I would casually throw out a joke or quote a movie to lighten things up, kind of like a mom thing to get your kids to redirect except these were full grown adults (ones who should know better, but I digress).

***Update - all of my darn fish died. :-(  So I have gone back to the drawing board and ordered all new filtration systems and we'll see if we can get it back up and healthy.

I love my 30 days of thanks, probably more so since this month with two weeks traveling for work it would have been easy to get down...I must admit there were several days that it took me much longer than it should have to come up with a thankful post.  Sitting in a swelteringly hot conference room listening to others boast about their skills and experience knowing that I could be home with my family was a true test of my ability to bite my tongue, luckily I didn't bite it off.

Here's to December and staying on the home front. :-)