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delgajsyk i think about posting all week and then i’m not home long enough to do it. but! here i am.
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the flat hunt shenanigans continued apace this week. saw two places on tuesday, and cancelled a viewing to a third because i knew in my heart of hearts that it wasn’t what i wanted. one of the ones on tuesday was good so now i’m at the mercy of the landlady’s decision, and the other was perfect other than the place itself being a dump. i’ve paused on answering ads for a while because we’re visiting cousins this weekend so i can’t do viewings, and also, i feel like i need to wait for other opportunities.
the good thing about tuesday was that the first viewing was early, so i met my cousin for dinner, which is the first time we’ve managed to do that this year. i’ve seen her a lot, just not one-on-one, which is unusual for us. she’s asked me to make a toy for one of her in-law’s kids so i’ve been cobbling a pattern together for a dog. i don’t like any of the patterns i have to hand, which is annoying, but should be done soon.
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i managed to go to zumba for the first time this month, and not just that but i went both days. monday’s one felt so good, holy crap. wednesday’s was a little more jagged, but some of that was this teenager who comes to the classes with her mum and would. not. move. over. there was so much space to her left, and i had three people to my right. but she wanted to be centre-left, so there she stayed. i’d have gone the other side of her, but there was another woman to her left. there wasn’t space for another person, but there was space for her to JUST MOVE.
the woman who runs those classes is so lovely. i used to think that was a requisite of being a zumba instructor, and then i met this woman in canada and she was nice but not particularly welcoming. anyway, she’s trying to get me to sign up for a 10-class pass, which under other circumstances i would do immediately. but because i don’t know what’s going on with these flats, i’m reluctant. i haven’t really been telling people outside family and a couple of people in london how the viewings are going. i should just get a pass. i probably won’t be moving any time soon, and once we get to april, the train company might not even refund my season ticket, in which case i wouldn’t be able to afford to move until june.
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i ran out of things to do at work on monday which, frankly, was a while coming. my boss is sometimes reluctant to give me more than one task to do at a time. sometimes i’ll volunteer to help take stuff off his place and he’ll be like, yeah, but you’re busy too, and then won’t share anything. normally there’s plenty to be getting on with, but other than the first manic week of january, it’s been slow.
he came back to me with a list of four tasks. “you can pick more than one,” he said, eager to get at least one of them off his own plate.
anyway, suffice it say, i took on all four, and a fifth later that day. i’ve fine the legwork on most of them; outright finished two. today i’m working at home because of appointments but i’m going to go over appraisal paperwork. we’ve been talking about the need for more structured l&d and better appraisals for the ops team for a while and it’s finally in, but now that i work for the company, i get to do one too. pretty certain i have more experience with these things than my boss, so that meeting is going to be interesting.
one of the caveats of my moving across with him last april was a role review six months in. we ended up putting that off because certain things about his role changed or got postponed, so we couldn’t be sure about what was happening, but he’s looked at it since then and apparently we’ll review it during the appraisal. i don’t really know what that means for me. my usual method of development is to say yes to every opportunity and then work out my skillset once i am in. there’s less scope for that here, so i don’t know how this is going to go.
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today: force the dentist to take out my broken wisdom tooth (i packed it with chewing gum to stop it from cutting up my mouth but now it has to go); pick up the hire car for the weekend at 4pm; pick up my sister from work to see black panther. oh yeaaaaaah.
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the flat hunt shenanigans continued apace this week. saw two places on tuesday, and cancelled a viewing to a third because i knew in my heart of hearts that it wasn’t what i wanted. one of the ones on tuesday was good so now i’m at the mercy of the landlady’s decision, and the other was perfect other than the place itself being a dump. i’ve paused on answering ads for a while because we’re visiting cousins this weekend so i can’t do viewings, and also, i feel like i need to wait for other opportunities.
the good thing about tuesday was that the first viewing was early, so i met my cousin for dinner, which is the first time we’ve managed to do that this year. i’ve seen her a lot, just not one-on-one, which is unusual for us. she’s asked me to make a toy for one of her in-law’s kids so i’ve been cobbling a pattern together for a dog. i don’t like any of the patterns i have to hand, which is annoying, but should be done soon.
—
i managed to go to zumba for the first time this month, and not just that but i went both days. monday’s one felt so good, holy crap. wednesday’s was a little more jagged, but some of that was this teenager who comes to the classes with her mum and would. not. move. over. there was so much space to her left, and i had three people to my right. but she wanted to be centre-left, so there she stayed. i’d have gone the other side of her, but there was another woman to her left. there wasn’t space for another person, but there was space for her to JUST MOVE.
the woman who runs those classes is so lovely. i used to think that was a requisite of being a zumba instructor, and then i met this woman in canada and she was nice but not particularly welcoming. anyway, she’s trying to get me to sign up for a 10-class pass, which under other circumstances i would do immediately. but because i don’t know what’s going on with these flats, i’m reluctant. i haven’t really been telling people outside family and a couple of people in london how the viewings are going. i should just get a pass. i probably won’t be moving any time soon, and once we get to april, the train company might not even refund my season ticket, in which case i wouldn’t be able to afford to move until june.
—
i ran out of things to do at work on monday which, frankly, was a while coming. my boss is sometimes reluctant to give me more than one task to do at a time. sometimes i’ll volunteer to help take stuff off his place and he’ll be like, yeah, but you’re busy too, and then won’t share anything. normally there’s plenty to be getting on with, but other than the first manic week of january, it’s been slow.
he came back to me with a list of four tasks. “you can pick more than one,” he said, eager to get at least one of them off his own plate.
anyway, suffice it say, i took on all four, and a fifth later that day. i’ve fine the legwork on most of them; outright finished two. today i’m working at home because of appointments but i’m going to go over appraisal paperwork. we’ve been talking about the need for more structured l&d and better appraisals for the ops team for a while and it’s finally in, but now that i work for the company, i get to do one too. pretty certain i have more experience with these things than my boss, so that meeting is going to be interesting.
one of the caveats of my moving across with him last april was a role review six months in. we ended up putting that off because certain things about his role changed or got postponed, so we couldn’t be sure about what was happening, but he’s looked at it since then and apparently we’ll review it during the appraisal. i don’t really know what that means for me. my usual method of development is to say yes to every opportunity and then work out my skillset once i am in. there’s less scope for that here, so i don’t know how this is going to go.
—
today: force the dentist to take out my broken wisdom tooth (i packed it with chewing gum to stop it from cutting up my mouth but now it has to go); pick up the hire car for the weekend at 4pm; pick up my sister from work to see black panther. oh yeaaaaaah.
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Date: 2018-02-23 03:49 pm (UTC)Um... ;)
Sorry about your teeth issues. I feel you. I feel everybody's teeth issues rn.
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Date: 2018-02-25 08:27 pm (UTC)Why are teeth such a burden on us? Why?
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Date: 2018-03-07 06:05 pm (UTC)Wisdom teeth problems terrify me because I know several people who had issues when they were pulled and my new dental hygenist (who ultimately has no say but this pissed me off any way) wants to take them because they're harder for him to clean but my old dentist and hygenist didn't have a problem. Like, if you have a problem cleaning them that's not my fault, that's you not being able to do your job.
I think I want to find a new dentist, actually. I don't really like the new people who bought the practice. I should get on that before my next appointment comes up.
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Date: 2018-03-11 10:13 am (UTC)Ugh, I hate my dentist too. I was going to find one closer to work anyway, but now that I’ve moved I can sort that out even sooner. I always felt like my dentist wasn’t very thorough, and a couple of times I had to go for emergency care somewhere else and every other place was better than my dentist!