last day!
So it's my last day of being 27. :D I have planned some minor doings for tomorrow evening that consist of dinner (probably Montana's) and some other fun activity... email me if you're going to come along. :)
In other news I finished day 2 of my new job today. Whee! I don't think I'll ever get tired of being able to pick whatever I want to wear to work. No more uniforms or suits. :D YAY.
I'm settling in okay, so far. I keep hitting snags that should be minor but end up taking up more time than they should, like trying to figure out how to send emails properly (solved by entering new settings in my email setup) and how to send faxes from a computer (solved by printing files to a .pdf and then printing to the fax). My current worry is getting the financial things sorted out. I have very little experience in budgeting on this kind of a scale and I have several accounts and sources of money to work with. Each month we get a printout of what activity has gone on in each account, and I have to enter them into MS Money and into an Excel spreadsheet.
This is all slightly complicated by the fact that I haven't used a PC to do anything more complicated than check email for more than three years now. So I'm vaguely remembering how to change settings and the like, but it's the little things that keep throwing me off track.
Other than that, it's going pretty well. I have managed to contact some volunteers about speaking to some schools. My next major challenge is the website. o_O It's very much ca. 1998, and needs some real tweaking, but I haven't done enough web design to be able to fix it myself at the moment.
Anyway. I'm pretty excited still, so that's a good sign. And I don't think I'll ever eat at the cafe in the library again... weirdest food evar. Super-salty hummus, falafel that were like blobs of hummus that had been fried rather than chickpea meal, and a samosa that was weirdly sweet. (fremlin asked if it was awful falafel. I said yes. -_-)
Ooh - and I have signed up for a jewellery making course!! It's three months, run by the NS Centre for Craft and Design. I'm super-excited - it goes with the birthday present fremlin gave me (a sketchbook, coloured and normal pencils, and a book on jewellery making design). I can't wait to start. The only thing is it runs on Tuesdays, so I won't be able to go to Tuesday night class until after the class is over. But I'm ok with that as I will be able to go on Saturday. YAY SATURDAYS OFF ZOMG.
I also got an Air Canada flight pass. For the cost of 2 flights I will be able to get myself anywhere in Eastern Canada until March. So I'm going to Toronto at the end of Jan and again 2 weeks later. ^_^ I'm also thinking about a possible visit to Ottawa in there somewhere too... (psst sweet_daddy, are you guys interested in some houseguests for a weekend at the end of Feb? :)
In other news I finished day 2 of my new job today. Whee! I don't think I'll ever get tired of being able to pick whatever I want to wear to work. No more uniforms or suits. :D YAY.
I'm settling in okay, so far. I keep hitting snags that should be minor but end up taking up more time than they should, like trying to figure out how to send emails properly (solved by entering new settings in my email setup) and how to send faxes from a computer (solved by printing files to a .pdf and then printing to the fax). My current worry is getting the financial things sorted out. I have very little experience in budgeting on this kind of a scale and I have several accounts and sources of money to work with. Each month we get a printout of what activity has gone on in each account, and I have to enter them into MS Money and into an Excel spreadsheet.
This is all slightly complicated by the fact that I haven't used a PC to do anything more complicated than check email for more than three years now. So I'm vaguely remembering how to change settings and the like, but it's the little things that keep throwing me off track.
Other than that, it's going pretty well. I have managed to contact some volunteers about speaking to some schools. My next major challenge is the website. o_O It's very much ca. 1998, and needs some real tweaking, but I haven't done enough web design to be able to fix it myself at the moment.
Anyway. I'm pretty excited still, so that's a good sign. And I don't think I'll ever eat at the cafe in the library again... weirdest food evar. Super-salty hummus, falafel that were like blobs of hummus that had been fried rather than chickpea meal, and a samosa that was weirdly sweet. (fremlin asked if it was awful falafel. I said yes. -_-)
Ooh - and I have signed up for a jewellery making course!! It's three months, run by the NS Centre for Craft and Design. I'm super-excited - it goes with the birthday present fremlin gave me (a sketchbook, coloured and normal pencils, and a book on jewellery making design). I can't wait to start. The only thing is it runs on Tuesdays, so I won't be able to go to Tuesday night class until after the class is over. But I'm ok with that as I will be able to go on Saturday. YAY SATURDAYS OFF ZOMG.
I also got an Air Canada flight pass. For the cost of 2 flights I will be able to get myself anywhere in Eastern Canada until March. So I'm going to Toronto at the end of Jan and again 2 weeks later. ^_^ I'm also thinking about a possible visit to Ottawa in there somewhere too... (psst sweet_daddy, are you guys interested in some houseguests for a weekend at the end of Feb? :)