Life
I know that it has been a LONG LONG time since i have posted any thing to this blog!! But I have had A LOT of things in my life to change drasticlly !! One of which asking my husband of 14 years for a divorce due to our unhealthy marriage. I can not go on living in a world that i make up as i go! and i can not keep staying because of the kids they are the ones who will be hurt in the end! i know that this a shocker!! but i have always hide the bad side of him ... no one ever saw it! well sometimes they did .. but i would always find a way to hide and make him look good even though people could still see through me at times.
then the next big thing that has happened it Robin Blanchard our manager at work was killed in a car wreck on May 11, 2007. He was more than a boss to me he was like a brother! I cant count the number of times that he slept on my couch or drove him around town! He was truly a great guy and I will miss him dearly. Yesterday we had a campus memorial for him . I was asked to speak and wasn't sure that I could .. but I did it ! and i feel so much better inside! i honestly think that helped me with my closer since how the Funeral Service was closed casket I didnt get the closer that I needed at the Funeral. But today I have found my peace with Robin he will be greatly missed! i know that he is now looking and watching over us now! he was truley one of a kind ! Here is what i read at the Memorial (thanks to Russ for helping writing it) :
For those who worked with Robin, it didn't take very long to appreciate that he combined a serious dedication to his job with a gunuine concern for his coworkers. This combinatin served to make him a great manager: his work ethis and professionalism were a cause for respect, and the extra mile that he was willing to go for his employees made him an easy man to like. Robin went to extraordinary lengths to make people around him comfortable. He often made a point of personally telling new employees how much he appreciated their efforts as they left the office each day. It was the first sign to many of us that we had not joined a workplace where we were expected to be a cog in a machine. We had become part of a group that was more like Robin's extended family.
Robin was more than a boss or coworker to many of us. He was a friend. And no remembrance of a friend is complete without an appreciation of his lighter side. Robin loved to have a good time. He had mischievous sense of humor and playfulness that broke down barriers between people. He had an infection laugh that brightened the room on dark days. For Robin, the office was a place to work hard, but it was also a place to play James Brown at high volume on Fridays at five o'clock. Because of his dedication, Robin was a man who never, ever turned off his cell phone, even while on the golf course. And because he was such a cut-up, he was also the same man who, after nearly smacking Skip Longstaff with a stray ball on the same golf course, started calling out "Fore!" when they crossed paths on campus.
Robin was not one to walk into the office in a limited role, content to play just his part as a boss, coordinator, or employee. He engaged people fully in like and work. And while this made his presence so much larger in our lives, it also means that his parting from us has left a larger hole. We will remember the kindness and humor that he brought to us, and we can mark with sadness the time of his passing. But given Robin's love of laughter and good times, he would not have wanted us to dwell on sadness. I suspect that he might have asked someone to turn up the music!
then the next big thing that has happened it Robin Blanchard our manager at work was killed in a car wreck on May 11, 2007. He was more than a boss to me he was like a brother! I cant count the number of times that he slept on my couch or drove him around town! He was truly a great guy and I will miss him dearly. Yesterday we had a campus memorial for him . I was asked to speak and wasn't sure that I could .. but I did it ! and i feel so much better inside! i honestly think that helped me with my closer since how the Funeral Service was closed casket I didnt get the closer that I needed at the Funeral. But today I have found my peace with Robin he will be greatly missed! i know that he is now looking and watching over us now! he was truley one of a kind ! Here is what i read at the Memorial (thanks to Russ for helping writing it) :
For those who worked with Robin, it didn't take very long to appreciate that he combined a serious dedication to his job with a gunuine concern for his coworkers. This combinatin served to make him a great manager: his work ethis and professionalism were a cause for respect, and the extra mile that he was willing to go for his employees made him an easy man to like. Robin went to extraordinary lengths to make people around him comfortable. He often made a point of personally telling new employees how much he appreciated their efforts as they left the office each day. It was the first sign to many of us that we had not joined a workplace where we were expected to be a cog in a machine. We had become part of a group that was more like Robin's extended family.
Robin was more than a boss or coworker to many of us. He was a friend. And no remembrance of a friend is complete without an appreciation of his lighter side. Robin loved to have a good time. He had mischievous sense of humor and playfulness that broke down barriers between people. He had an infection laugh that brightened the room on dark days. For Robin, the office was a place to work hard, but it was also a place to play James Brown at high volume on Fridays at five o'clock. Because of his dedication, Robin was a man who never, ever turned off his cell phone, even while on the golf course. And because he was such a cut-up, he was also the same man who, after nearly smacking Skip Longstaff with a stray ball on the same golf course, started calling out "Fore!" when they crossed paths on campus.
Robin was not one to walk into the office in a limited role, content to play just his part as a boss, coordinator, or employee. He engaged people fully in like and work. And while this made his presence so much larger in our lives, it also means that his parting from us has left a larger hole. We will remember the kindness and humor that he brought to us, and we can mark with sadness the time of his passing. But given Robin's love of laughter and good times, he would not have wanted us to dwell on sadness. I suspect that he might have asked someone to turn up the music!
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