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Thursday
Are you bored with me yet? Work is so slow at the moment than I have nothing better to do than rant here. I’ve already checked Facebook and the other sites a zillion times. I should’ve brought some stationary and written a letter perhaps, but I don’t feel comfortable doing that here, at my desk down at the stock. Perhaps at the desk I have at our upper office as that feels more private. Here, stock people run in and out all day, so they would probably look over my shoulder if they saw pretty stationary, you know? I am thinking that perhaps I should bring a textbook in French or German or something to actually do something more useful than surfing the net when we have nothing to do. I probably haven’t mentioned this here, but a while ago the Solna DC took over some of our customers as our stock had problems keeping up with deliveries (people aren’t exactly highly motivated right now, although I would say that it works better than expected considering the circumstances) and to be frankly they took over more of our work than we had expected, sort of, so now it is really slow here and really busy over there. We still help them pretty much with taking their calls via overflow, but the packing has to be done there, after all. So, well, if everyone is here and we don’t get too much overflow from SDC (they’ve been very understaffed lately and last week it felt like we had taken over their customers instead of the other way around) it gets a bit quiet.
I am currently lying low on looking for a new job. I browse the job sites occasionally, but … I was so disappointed when I did not get the Icebug job that I kind of lost my inspiration and also it feels like it’s better to go past vacation time and Sigrid starting preschool and then make a big effort again. I mean, even though it isn’t exactly inspiring to be here at SMD right now, I still have a job until January or so … I don’t know. I need to get in the spirit again. Right now I feel like, well, it is only two weeks after this week and then I will be off for four weeks, then I will work three weeks and then I will be home with Sigrid for two weeks, and then it is time for her to start her preschool. I hope that A can take time off then and be the one who does the whole starting-at-the-preschool thing, ‘cause I think that he can handle it better than I can if she screams and stuff when we leave her there … We’ll see. He is, after all, starting a new job Aug 1st, so … Today they called from the authorities that handle the preschools and said that they had a spot at the one that we had as our second choice, and asked if we wanted that instead. Not easy to know! We pondered it a bit and I asked my co-worker who has worked at the one we were first offered about what she thought, but well … Apparently they are run by the same boss, so it shouldn’t be that much of a difference in how they work. I think they do some things together too. In the end we decided to go for the 2nd choice then, as we think that one looks to have a nicer playground and the place was built later. I don’t know. I hope we made the right choice!
My order from PY has already arrived and is ready for pick-up! Yay! I wonder what A will think about me having bought more crafting stuff … Hm, perhaps I shouldn’t tell him ;) I do, after all, have stuff to make like a zillion cards … not to mention beads and yarn and God knows what. And then there is stationary … I could write a zillion letters too, before I run out. I guess I have to hope that Sigrid will want penpals in the future :)
Nothing much of interest happened after I wrote yesterday. Sofus and I went to Systembolaget on our way home to buy some whiskey for mom and dad, as that is what they have wished for as gifts for their upcoming birthdays. We got one Canadian and one Scottish whisky, and hopefully they will like them. It’s not like Sofus and I know anything about whisky. Then I played some with Sigrid, had dinner, played some more, put the little one to bed, made a card for my mom while A was working on photos in Lightroom (he was going through pictures from our honeymoon in Canada) and then we watched some TV. Gosh, the excitement! I picked up a few more words to add to my list of words that Sigrid actually says:
jacka (jacket/coat)
anka (duck)
oj! (oh!)
aj! (ouch!)
ja (yes)
But, like I said, she understands a lot more. Today she has been with daddy and gotten her shots against measles … As I understood it, it went well and she wasn’t really upset at all. And her height and weight were as they should¨, even though her weight has been pretty much the same for months now. Apparently, that is as it should be.
