New Couch Has Landed
Mar. 31st, 2022 12:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
singedsunThe new couch has arrived and in true I hate moving and/or cleaning, we did not get the old couch moved out in time. So our living room is currently in a great state of disarray as we've basically moved everything to one side of the room so the new couch could be moved in. I love it, the new location is weird but we'll adjust to it, I definitely think I'm going to like this look better once the rest of the room is put together.
Today was one of those work days where from the very beginning I thought... I'm not getting through this without a lot of caffeine. I did manage (after a doubleshot which are my worst guilty pleasure drink when mornings are bad). We've had some bad storms recently and last night our power went out and it wasn't back until some time early this morning. I had a rough time getting to sleep and ended up reading in the dark on my phone until I finally crashed (hence the particularly rough morning). I did have a very nice woman ask me today out of the blue how I was doing. She's one of the many PMs for a big project I'm working on and this wasn't an ask about anything, not even asking for an update, just a honest-to-goodness 'how are you really' kind of message. It really meant a lot to get that mid-afternoon. One of our vendors made some comments yesterday in a big meeting that implied my team was behind on work (not the case, and also not the whole story) which after hearing my name for like the dozenth time, felt really personal. I meet with that vendor like twice a week to move things forward and the fact that she waited until a big meeting with leadership to mention it was rude. So knowing people at this job, in other parts of the business, are thinking about me and checking in just because, is really really sweet.
Due to the storms and the cleaning and the power, I know I'm missing a chunk of posts over the last several days, so if I have not commented or if you posted your next entry for Anemnesis, I'm sorry, please point me in that direction! I read back like 8 or 10 pages and ran into a place where I couldn't figure out where I'd left off from a few nights ago. I've my own next post ready for Anemnesis - part three - that'll probably go up late tomorrow evening. I'm still in absolutely love with this deck and this story, so I'm eager to get to the last part.
I'm giving thought (at the last minute) to trying to do Camp Nano for April using everything I learned while writing There's Nothing Here But Light. That story has a lot of touches from the novel I was writing two years ago but got stuck on and I think I might be able to go back, re-outline and fix the stuff I was struggling with.
Today was one of those work days where from the very beginning I thought... I'm not getting through this without a lot of caffeine. I did manage (after a doubleshot which are my worst guilty pleasure drink when mornings are bad). We've had some bad storms recently and last night our power went out and it wasn't back until some time early this morning. I had a rough time getting to sleep and ended up reading in the dark on my phone until I finally crashed (hence the particularly rough morning). I did have a very nice woman ask me today out of the blue how I was doing. She's one of the many PMs for a big project I'm working on and this wasn't an ask about anything, not even asking for an update, just a honest-to-goodness 'how are you really' kind of message. It really meant a lot to get that mid-afternoon. One of our vendors made some comments yesterday in a big meeting that implied my team was behind on work (not the case, and also not the whole story) which after hearing my name for like the dozenth time, felt really personal. I meet with that vendor like twice a week to move things forward and the fact that she waited until a big meeting with leadership to mention it was rude. So knowing people at this job, in other parts of the business, are thinking about me and checking in just because, is really really sweet.
Due to the storms and the cleaning and the power, I know I'm missing a chunk of posts over the last several days, so if I have not commented or if you posted your next entry for Anemnesis, I'm sorry, please point me in that direction! I read back like 8 or 10 pages and ran into a place where I couldn't figure out where I'd left off from a few nights ago. I've my own next post ready for Anemnesis - part three - that'll probably go up late tomorrow evening. I'm still in absolutely love with this deck and this story, so I'm eager to get to the last part.
I'm giving thought (at the last minute) to trying to do Camp Nano for April using everything I learned while writing There's Nothing Here But Light. That story has a lot of touches from the novel I was writing two years ago but got stuck on and I think I might be able to go back, re-outline and fix the stuff I was struggling with.
