The NHL

I got my official job offer from the NHL last week! Yea! Just a relief to know I'm officially employed again. The job started off very, very slow, but it's gotten better and I'm enjoying it more. Here's some tidbits about my new job:

--I still have a view of the Hudson River. Granted, it's a very small piece of river I can actually see, but I can still see it! I'm on the 46th floor at Rockefeller Center...great views of the city!! My side of the building faces the Times Square area. The other side faces Central Park and you can see the whole span of the park...love it!

--Joy quit her job at The Journey and on Tuesday, went back to the exact same job she had before going to work for the church. She's working at NBC in the Rockefeller complex and there are tunnels between her building and mine that are full of shops and restaurants. Yea-- a lunch buddy!!!

--We had the NHL Holiday party last week. It was at BB King's, a club known for Blue's concerts. We had a very nice room there. I had never had an office party quite like this...EY was too cheap and WSM was even cheaper. We walked into this one and there were waiters walking around with appetizers and red & green martinis. They had a full buffet and a live band that was good, but way too loud. The NHL commissioner was there and spoke to us briefly...I guess some people would say he is famous, but I'm having trouble remembering his name right now (don't tell). Most people came in their work clothes...it was on Tuesday night at 6:00. Two girls showed up in very short, very, very low-cut dresses. No one I spoke to knew who they were, but EVERYone was aware they were there.

--I was allowed to determine my own start date. My time as a contractor at the NHL will last through this Friday. Then, I'm taking a week and a half off for the Holidays and will start full-time on January 4th. Timing couldn't have been better. This way, I get to spend a whole week in Dallas with my family, which I was planning for all along, but I also will be off while my friend's are here who are coming up for New Years.

--I don't yet have all the details on benefits, company policies, etc... I expect they'll clue me in on all that once I'm on permanently. I do know that several people have mentioned that I will have some access to not only NY Rangers hockey game tickets, but also Giants tickets. Sounds fun! Oh, and for those of you in Dallas, the All-Star game is being played there on January 24th and someone mentioned that they may have tickets for my friends/family!! I'll let you know if they follow through on that. A lot of people in my department are actually going down to work at the game. I don't think I'm on the list to go, but I'm hoping they need me for some reason!

--Everyone at the office has a trash can that has the logo from one of the hockey teams. They were considerate enough to think ahead and had the Dallas Stars trash can at my desk on my first day. I thought that was very thoughtful of them! I've spied a St. Louis Blues trash can that no one appears to be using and I'm tempted to snag that one too. That way I'll have both my home-states represented!

--How many of you have a job where you hear someone say "Zamboni" almost daily? That is now my job.