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Hello LJ World, I'm sort of back!
After problems with a change of ISP who very thoughtfully decided to filter *all* of my emails as spam, I think everything is working as it should. *Fingers crossed*
I have been lurking around but not doing much more than commenting here and there.So I thought I would do a bit of an update.
In January I managed to change jobs inside Wall*e*Mart going from checkouts to a more admin post, working with local charities doing fundraising and PR and a load of other stuff. The learning curve was very steep and I kind of broke half way up it.
As well as trying to get my head around the way things are done here, a pretty full load of work and the fact that my handover was a two hour briefing with the previous jobholder, who, it became apparent had been "pushed" out of her post. So, with the best will in the world (she wasn't rude) but didn't want to help me that much. Plus every time they were short on tills I would be drafted to help out-for increasingly large chunks of time. I wasn't sleeping well, waking up with my mind running lists of "Things that need to be done" and I was getting stressed out. All this on Minimum wage plus a few pence.
So I resigned at them, thinking that while the tills were monumentally boring at least I had been walking away at the end of the day without all this stress.
And then the odd thing happened; a punk haired, piercing dotted lad that I had virtually ignored turned out to be a good manager. His attitude was "How do we resolve this?" And he sat down with me and sorted through the things that were driving me insane and while they're not perfect, they're better. So I'm still in post and I'm starting to enjoy bits of it!
Plus now I think I can start putting some of my energy into being creative again.
I miss SGA and it's still my primary fandom. I've been enjoying "Sanctuary" "Warehouse 13" "Numb3rs"and "Eureka". Also "Dr Who","Merlin", the Reboot "Sherlock". I keep thinking that I might draw Tesla because he's such a wonderful character, or Morgana because that face was born to sneer! I'm *still* trying to finish a pic I started for poor melagan over a year back (aargh!) but every time I look at my WIP I can't help thinking that my prelim sketches look better. Should I have the courage to throw away what I've done and start from scratch? Or try and push through my artist's block? Or maybe I should finish up my SGA adventure fic which has about 17K words already but is kind of lacking a middle and end?
Oh decisions, decisions.
We went to the SF ball in February and I didn't even have the energy to write or post my mostly useless pics of Torri up. It was a nice small con and K was with me but I just didn't fit into place the way I normally do. Hell, I won 1st prize in the Art Comp (the Lorne pic, "Jumper 3 on approach") which Torri described as "Beautiful" and this is first time I've mentioned it, much less gloated over it.I think I may have been a wee bit depressed.
So, we're going to Writer Con in August and I hope to see all the good folks I met there two years ago. I shall post a bit more later but now I'm back,but here are some pretties for you. Read the tags, Gentles.
Meet Errol, our garden dragon. He's quite shy but is peeping out from the roses here...
Applebug!
and finally,a lovely rose for you all!
Cheers!
After problems with a change of ISP who very thoughtfully decided to filter *all* of my emails as spam, I think everything is working as it should. *Fingers crossed*
I have been lurking around but not doing much more than commenting here and there.So I thought I would do a bit of an update.
In January I managed to change jobs inside Wall*e*Mart going from checkouts to a more admin post, working with local charities doing fundraising and PR and a load of other stuff. The learning curve was very steep and I kind of broke half way up it.
As well as trying to get my head around the way things are done here, a pretty full load of work and the fact that my handover was a two hour briefing with the previous jobholder, who, it became apparent had been "pushed" out of her post. So, with the best will in the world (she wasn't rude) but didn't want to help me that much. Plus every time they were short on tills I would be drafted to help out-for increasingly large chunks of time. I wasn't sleeping well, waking up with my mind running lists of "Things that need to be done" and I was getting stressed out. All this on Minimum wage plus a few pence.
So I resigned at them, thinking that while the tills were monumentally boring at least I had been walking away at the end of the day without all this stress.
And then the odd thing happened; a punk haired, piercing dotted lad that I had virtually ignored turned out to be a good manager. His attitude was "How do we resolve this?" And he sat down with me and sorted through the things that were driving me insane and while they're not perfect, they're better. So I'm still in post and I'm starting to enjoy bits of it!
Plus now I think I can start putting some of my energy into being creative again.
I miss SGA and it's still my primary fandom. I've been enjoying "Sanctuary" "Warehouse 13" "Numb3rs"and "Eureka". Also "Dr Who","Merlin", the Reboot "Sherlock". I keep thinking that I might draw Tesla because he's such a wonderful character, or Morgana because that face was born to sneer! I'm *still* trying to finish a pic I started for poor melagan over a year back (aargh!) but every time I look at my WIP I can't help thinking that my prelim sketches look better. Should I have the courage to throw away what I've done and start from scratch? Or try and push through my artist's block? Or maybe I should finish up my SGA adventure fic which has about 17K words already but is kind of lacking a middle and end?
Oh decisions, decisions.
We went to the SF ball in February and I didn't even have the energy to write or post my mostly useless pics of Torri up. It was a nice small con and K was with me but I just didn't fit into place the way I normally do. Hell, I won 1st prize in the Art Comp (the Lorne pic, "Jumper 3 on approach") which Torri described as "Beautiful" and this is first time I've mentioned it, much less gloated over it.I think I may have been a wee bit depressed.
So, we're going to Writer Con in August and I hope to see all the good folks I met there two years ago. I shall post a bit more later but now I'm back,but here are some pretties for you. Read the tags, Gentles.
Meet Errol, our garden dragon. He's quite shy but is peeping out from the roses here...
Applebug!
and finally,a lovely rose for you all!
Cheers!