CPDM

I am just finishing my first class of the CPDM- Certified Professional in Disability Management. The final is Monday, so I will be hitting the books all weekend!

New Job Duties

Even though I will still be a Risk Management Analyst in the Risk Management Department at the EGUSD when the REMS grant is over I will have completely different job duties. Kirt suggested that I find some course work to help position myself better for the new position. I started toward the profession designation of CPDM- Certified Professional in Disability Management. At a staff meeting when there was mention of they would have no one to do the Interactive Processes I was able to say that I had just done part of a webinar on the Interactive Process through CSAC-Excess. In the same staff meeting I was able to remark that I had started the CPDM. I think it gave me some credibility. Then the other analyst, Margaret, took a job in HR so I will be the only analyst for an indefinite time- cabinet will not allow the position to be posted due to the budget problems. Marlon was supposed to go to a Disability Conference Friday morning, but had triple booked himself so he asked me to go. It was just here in Sacramento and I had no problem driving to it. It was a good learning experience.
On the way home I stopped at Kaiser to have my BP checked- it was high, had a pedicure with Tracy at Judy's, and then picked up a Rx at the EG Kaiser. I think I left my ATM card there...will need to try to track it down.

Ronald McDonald House

Yesterday, Kirt was involved in a service project at the Ronald McDonald house in Sacramento. He and a bunch of guys from work went there and weeded flowerbed and made it all beautiful.

While he was out weeding, I had to go to an orientation for my online class on Adobe Acrobat. We are using it quite a bit at my work, scanning lots of documents into PDF, etc. I find that no matter how much I know about the "uses of", and "how to do", with a different software- if I take a class in it I end up learning tons more! It is an 8-week class. I am also taking a beginning database (Access 2007)on-line class for the same 8 week period.

Things that I feel strongly about...

1. I am a mom, and grandmon; I love my kids, husband and my grandchildren
2. I am a daughter & I love my mom, she is still very important to me
3. I am a sister – “oh, the joys of sisterhood!” as a child and as an adult
4. I want my children to live good lives, remain active in the church, and work always to be the best they can be
5. Education is important
6. Continuing education continues to work for me
7. The importance of making a marriage work- it is important to marry the right person, at the right time, in the right place
8. Oral histories- I love to find out details about my ancestors lives
9. Family history – who did I descend from?
10. Quilting, knitting, some scrap booking
11. I have arthritis – and can do less with my hands than I want to.
12. Stress management
13. The importance of a good relationship with in-laws
14. Christmas – family holidays and get-togethers
15. Our joys and struggles as we lived in our “Poverty, hunger and dirt” days…we were so poor, with 6 kids in a little 900 sq ft home.
16. Emergency preparedness – follow the prophet
17. Getting out of debt- living within our means

What do you feel strongly about?