newbuzz...After a year of working in the call center, I have received a promotion. This is a welcome change and it comes with different work hours. I will leave home at 6:45 a.m. and return home at 5:30p.m. Still a long day, but now I will be able to eat dinner at a normal hour and take my little dogs for a walk after work once again. This change coincides nicely with the "spring ahead an hour" of daylight savings time which begins this weekend. At long last the winter is coming to an end. I got through Christmas and the cabin fever days of January and February without gaining a pound. In fact, the daily walks I have been taking in the skyway at work have found me healthier than I was at this time last year. The walks were borne of the sadness of finding myself in a new job with odd hours and no one to sit with at lunch time. Instead of moping through a lonely lunch, I started walking each day. Soon I was able to walk faster and added hand and ankle weights. During those 30 minute walks, tensions melted from my frame sadness evaporated from my brow. The vague feeling of uneasiness was replaced with excitement and hope. With time, I became comfortable with the work I was doing and made friends. Now I can hear the spring sunshine whispering to me that life is good and if I keep walking and smiling I can accomplish anything. The new job will offer challenges and there will be uncertain times, but once again I have learned that the road to success is paved with perseverance. Change is accomplished one step at a time and it is true that everything is hard before it is easy.