Time to put up or shut up

So I've been all bitter about my job and being over it and wishing I could figure out what the hell I want to do when I grow up. I just passed the year mark at my current job and was due for a review. Had it yesterday. I'd previously filled out a self-evaluation basically putting it all out there and letting them know that they'd soon find a skeleton covered in cobwebs at my desk if they didn't give me something more interesting to do. Turns out that making a little noise actually yielded some results. I got a raise (not a big one, but considering everything I haven't done over the past year, I wasn't disappointed) -- and an opportunity to re-launch the firm's internal newsletter. I've always wanted to be in charge of one of those, and this will most certainly give me the opportunity to speak to a lot more people around here and be in the know about goings on as they happen instead of months down the road. Apparently the HR Director used to do it herself, but the firm blew up so much over the past 7 years that about 3 years ago she finally gave up on it. She thought I'd be a good candidate to breathe new life into it. Now I don't consider myself to be a prolific creative writer, more of an editorial type, but I can certainly work with a bunch of information that's being fed to me by management and augment a newsletter sufficient to make it interesting! And now this is actually part of my job. Between that, and some other duties I've recently taken on that are not those of a legal assistant, I feel like I have something to look forward to. It's still not the perfect situation (as though that existed), but it's enough of a change to keep me hanging on -- especially since I can put that experience on my resume. In fact, I was told I could go take a class if I wanted to so I could learn some new software, etc., and make this more interesting. For the first time in a long time, I feel like I'm moving forward instead of running in place. It's my baby, and I can do what I want with it. I don't even have to share it! Now I gotta come up with something (design, layout, some content) that people are gonna want to read. It's exciting.