Good things on a rainy day
I'm feeling accomplished and a little tired but in a good way tonight. Yesterday I was able to get my flu and booster jabs, so far my arm's a little sore and I'm kind of achey. Thankfully I didn't have to work today so I was able to have a slow day which suited me. First I finally got my car taken care of at the great garage I've found near work; inspection and oil change and apparently a bulb change.
Then I had an interview at where I work which was really good and involved them saying so someone's leaving, there will be more hours to fill, could you? I said yes, the position I was originally interviewing for doesn't have a lot of hours but I'd actually be properly working for the library. This was them going, we want to use you more. It also felt good since I stood up for myself and said, no, I won't work every Saturday, every other yes but not every one and they listened. They know how valuable I am, which it feels good.
Last night I did my Yuletide app, which was remarkably hard this year especially with Andor available. If you've talked to me on other places, you'll know that I'm having all kinds of conflicting feelings about this show. I love how incredibly well done and thoughtful it is, but the changes to Cassian's timeline and story leave me conflicted and wanting more for him. So I decided to offer to write for it and to request it, we'll see what happens. Knowing how my Yuletide's tend to go, I'll probably end up writing something for a DWJ canon.
In good home stuff, I've been putting more things up on my walls, this is taking longer because I can only use sticky stuff, no holes. And I'm not as familiar with what they can all hold and I have a lot of art, but I like how its coming along. I need to find a new way to display my stickers as the shapes from Target keep falling off the wall as well as more places to display pins.
Then the other things that happened today which I still find amazing and bizarre is that I accidentally put my hand down on I think a wasp and it stung me. There was a little swelling that went down and my hand still hurts, it stung me just below my thumb joint. Now this sounds ordinary but the context is that from the time I was a tiny child, preschool age, I learned I was allergic to the entire vespid family; bees, wasps, you name it.
Twice in my life I've actually gone into anaphylactic shock due to being stung, once in preschool, once when I was about twelve and with my parents in Maine. For a large chunk of my early life, I would weekly then monthly then less get allergy shots to deal with this and always have an epipen. I have other allergies but this was always the big one. When I was in college, my allergist finally said, okay, you can stop the shots. But I've always been careful with bees and wasps, I don't often eat outside and didn't really know the true effect of all of that. So the complete randomness of putting my hand on a wasp, getting stung and then having a light reaction is surreal. One of my strongest sense memories is the hives and then wheezing when I was stung in Maine. And now, the sting is more like where I got my vaccinations, it hurts but nothing special. I'm going to be processing this for a while.
Then I had an interview at where I work which was really good and involved them saying so someone's leaving, there will be more hours to fill, could you? I said yes, the position I was originally interviewing for doesn't have a lot of hours but I'd actually be properly working for the library. This was them going, we want to use you more. It also felt good since I stood up for myself and said, no, I won't work every Saturday, every other yes but not every one and they listened. They know how valuable I am, which it feels good.
Last night I did my Yuletide app, which was remarkably hard this year especially with Andor available. If you've talked to me on other places, you'll know that I'm having all kinds of conflicting feelings about this show. I love how incredibly well done and thoughtful it is, but the changes to Cassian's timeline and story leave me conflicted and wanting more for him. So I decided to offer to write for it and to request it, we'll see what happens. Knowing how my Yuletide's tend to go, I'll probably end up writing something for a DWJ canon.
In good home stuff, I've been putting more things up on my walls, this is taking longer because I can only use sticky stuff, no holes. And I'm not as familiar with what they can all hold and I have a lot of art, but I like how its coming along. I need to find a new way to display my stickers as the shapes from Target keep falling off the wall as well as more places to display pins.
Then the other things that happened today which I still find amazing and bizarre is that I accidentally put my hand down on I think a wasp and it stung me. There was a little swelling that went down and my hand still hurts, it stung me just below my thumb joint. Now this sounds ordinary but the context is that from the time I was a tiny child, preschool age, I learned I was allergic to the entire vespid family; bees, wasps, you name it.
Twice in my life I've actually gone into anaphylactic shock due to being stung, once in preschool, once when I was about twelve and with my parents in Maine. For a large chunk of my early life, I would weekly then monthly then less get allergy shots to deal with this and always have an epipen. I have other allergies but this was always the big one. When I was in college, my allergist finally said, okay, you can stop the shots. But I've always been careful with bees and wasps, I don't often eat outside and didn't really know the true effect of all of that. So the complete randomness of putting my hand on a wasp, getting stung and then having a light reaction is surreal. One of my strongest sense memories is the hives and then wheezing when I was stung in Maine. And now, the sting is more like where I got my vaccinations, it hurts but nothing special. I'm going to be processing this for a while.