#sqlfamily<\/p>\n
It started feeling real on Monday night of #sqlpass week.\u00a0 It was at a very late dinner with @airbornegeek and my co-workers; we were sitting at The Tap House when all of the sudden (you know at nearly midnight) walked in a large group of my favorite people in the #sqlcommunity.\u00a0 I walked over to say HI to all these \u201cstrangers\u201d I had never met in person, there were hugs and laughs and OMG! Everywhere.\u00a0 I walked back to our table and said \u201cGuys MY FAMILY is here, we have to go sit with them!\u201d they replied with \u201cwe are going to the hotel and to bed\u201d.\u00a0 I followed up with \u201cOKAY I am going to sit with my family.\u201d\u00a0 This really did happen, I might not remember the exact words but I do remember declaring that my family had arrived and I needed to go.\u00a0 J<\/p>\n
Later in the week I got married, right you say \u2026 but no really I did.\u00a0 I got married to the most amazing person I have ever met, one who \u201cgets me\u201d the one who challenges me and the one who loves me.\u00a0 What\u2019s funny is that we had no reservations about getting married at #sqlpass, these were our people.\u00a0 These were the people who understood us the most. \u00a0Weddings are about family and we got married in front of the family we choose to be a part of, the family that gets it and the one we most wanted to be around for such a special occasion.\u00a0 We have the BEST signatures ever on our marriage license \u2013 (@datachick) Karen Lopez and (@MladenPrajdic) Mladen Prajdic with a full audience of #sqlfamily. \u00a0I am currently onboarding new people where I work, when I tell them this story they are so excited.\u00a0 One lady said \u201cthat is really cool \u2013 you got married where you needed to be.\u201d\u00a0 I love this family! Who is ready for PASSiverssary?<\/p>\n
The last realization that #sqlfamily was really my family came this Sunday night while sitting on the couch in front of the fire with the dogs.\u00a0 @airbornegeek was explaining the mememonday being about #sqlfamily when all of the sudden I realized that we spent a whole week surrounded by people, busy every moment of every day and in crowded spaces without me totally freaking out and without him needing a few days to decompress.\u00a0 See what I have learned about the real nerds is that they don\u2019t deal well with being over stimulated.\u00a0 Kerry and I have spent several days in the past being busy and surrounded by people without melting down but we generally end up withdrawing from society for several days at the Osburn Hideway.\u00a0 This trip to #sqlpass did not have that impact. We loved every minute of spending time with our #sqlfamily and there was no medication involved.<\/p>\n
So not only is this community more like family, it is a family that I am HONORED and PROUD to be a part of.\u00a0 It is the stress free family that I don\u2019t have to explain myself to.\u00a0 The family that is always happy to see me and the family that is willing to help me to figure out where I went wrong without placing blame or telling me I am stupid.<\/p>\n
I <3 YOU GUYS!!!!<\/p>\n
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It\u2019s Meme Monday. This is Tom LaRock\u2019s (blog <\/a>| @SQLRockstar<\/a>) brainchild. Its idea is to spur all of us to write something. So, here I wrote\u00a0 about this month\u2019s topic and I think you should too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" #sqlfamily<\/p>\n It started feeling real on Monday night of #sqlpass week. It was at a very late dinner with @airbornegeek and my co-workers; we were sitting at The Tap House when all of the sudden (you know at nearly midnight) walked in a large group of my favorite people in the #sqlcommunity. I walked over to say HI to all these \u201cstrangers\u201d I had never met in person, there were hugs and laughs and OMG! Everywhere. I walked back to our table and said \u201cGuys MY FAMILY is here, we have to go sit with them!\u201d they replied with \u201cwe are going to the hotel and to bed\u201d. I followed . . . → Read More: #SQLFAMILY<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[147,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sql","category-technology","odd"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}