my new year's resolution is to pay down my sleep debt, because yikes
Summary of the previous week and a half:
I have been so goddamn tired and I don't know why.
Anyway, Christmas was good, I got home safely, nothing weird there. I bought some cute otters-in-snow postage stamps and used them to send thank-you notes in a timely fashion as well, so go me! And I spent Aunt Cara's Target gift card on some more long-sleeve shirts, because reasons.
(I have become fond of Target's Goodfellow brand of shirts, which are intended for men and therefore have a sadly limited color palette, but which are amazingly comfy and also I think both a little cheaper and a little better made than their main women's shirt brands. They are also LONG, which is such a refreshing contrast to the general fashion for cutting women's shirts too short in the torso. But I also still buy some of their A New Day women's brand because goshdarnit I like colors.)
The week between Christmas and New Year's is always a weird, liminal period where time isn't real. That was not helped by working unfamiliar hours -- 9am to 3pm instead of 10am to 6pm -- at the rental office. I got through some video stuff and some photo editing, as well as a surprising number of rental requests, but my main achievement was taking photos of a whole bunch of architectural blueprints so I can now turn those photos into floor plans and building key plans.
I also got through various bits of paid training for Not the IRS, and will have my first shift on Tuesday afternoon. I must remember to punch in tomorrow in order to collect my payment for that paid training -- I tend to do it piecemeal in between other tasks, so I'm not usually punched in while I'm actually watching videos or taking tests.
Mom was going to drive up to Ithaca for New Year's, but cancelled due to weird throat issues (apparently not Covid, just unidentified winter gunk). Nick and Dad stopped en route to Minnesota and spent a couple days in Chicago to get some more medical tests, which I think are currently still inconclusive. However, I believe they made it to Minneapolis today.
Mom will drive out to Minnesota later this week to take over staying with Nick once Dad flies home. I have therefore mailed her birthday card to Nick's house. Fortunately I was on top of birthday presents this year and she already has her joint gift from me and Nick, which I will remind her to take with her on the trip.
I did basically nothing on Friday and Saturday, and today my main achievement was laundry. But, you know, I not only got all my clothes and linens washed and dried, I also got everything (well, everything that isn't air-drying overnight) folded and put away, so go me for efficiency. \o/
Tomorrow I'm in the Collegetown office, where I must remember to ask Mom Boss and Aunt Boss what the plan is vis-a-vis my scheduling, because without Miss California (whose last day was in December and has moved to Long Island) OR a functional new hire, that office is very short-staffed. And yet I can't just vanish from the downtown office, so... it is a puzzle. Hopefully they hire someone good soon.
And now I shall go to bed because I am getting really goddamn tired of being really goddamn tired. *wry* If you want to comment on this post, you can do so over here on Dreamwidth, where there are currently (
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I have been so goddamn tired and I don't know why.
Anyway, Christmas was good, I got home safely, nothing weird there. I bought some cute otters-in-snow postage stamps and used them to send thank-you notes in a timely fashion as well, so go me! And I spent Aunt Cara's Target gift card on some more long-sleeve shirts, because reasons.
(I have become fond of Target's Goodfellow brand of shirts, which are intended for men and therefore have a sadly limited color palette, but which are amazingly comfy and also I think both a little cheaper and a little better made than their main women's shirt brands. They are also LONG, which is such a refreshing contrast to the general fashion for cutting women's shirts too short in the torso. But I also still buy some of their A New Day women's brand because goshdarnit I like colors.)
The week between Christmas and New Year's is always a weird, liminal period where time isn't real. That was not helped by working unfamiliar hours -- 9am to 3pm instead of 10am to 6pm -- at the rental office. I got through some video stuff and some photo editing, as well as a surprising number of rental requests, but my main achievement was taking photos of a whole bunch of architectural blueprints so I can now turn those photos into floor plans and building key plans.
I also got through various bits of paid training for Not the IRS, and will have my first shift on Tuesday afternoon. I must remember to punch in tomorrow in order to collect my payment for that paid training -- I tend to do it piecemeal in between other tasks, so I'm not usually punched in while I'm actually watching videos or taking tests.
Mom was going to drive up to Ithaca for New Year's, but cancelled due to weird throat issues (apparently not Covid, just unidentified winter gunk). Nick and Dad stopped en route to Minnesota and spent a couple days in Chicago to get some more medical tests, which I think are currently still inconclusive. However, I believe they made it to Minneapolis today.
Mom will drive out to Minnesota later this week to take over staying with Nick once Dad flies home. I have therefore mailed her birthday card to Nick's house. Fortunately I was on top of birthday presents this year and she already has her joint gift from me and Nick, which I will remind her to take with her on the trip.
I did basically nothing on Friday and Saturday, and today my main achievement was laundry. But, you know, I not only got all my clothes and linens washed and dried, I also got everything (well, everything that isn't air-drying overnight) folded and put away, so go me for efficiency. \o/
Tomorrow I'm in the Collegetown office, where I must remember to ask Mom Boss and Aunt Boss what the plan is vis-a-vis my scheduling, because without Miss California (whose last day was in December and has moved to Long Island) OR a functional new hire, that office is very short-staffed. And yet I can't just vanish from the downtown office, so... it is a puzzle. Hopefully they hire someone good soon.
And now I shall go to bed because I am getting really goddamn tired of being really goddamn tired. *wry* If you want to comment on this post, you can do so over here on Dreamwidth, where there are currently (
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