No time like the present
Dec. 15th, 2018 12:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mousme Well, it HAS been a hot minute since I posted here.
I was reminded of the existence of DW and LJ by the collective meltdown on the internet about Tumblr banning all forms of porn/erotica, and all of fandom frantically looking for a new place to go and roost. If memory serves, it was cracking down on pornography and supposedly "indecent" content that sounded the death knell of LiveJournal, too, consigning it to the current quasi-wasteland of only a few regular posters and the rest of us who update only sporadically, when we remember to.
Still! I very much enjoyed LJ back when I was updating regularly, so I am giving this another whirl. The last time I wrote, my dog had died, work was kind of a shambles, and I was about to start university again after 17 years.
What has changed since then? Well, work is even more of a shambles. Just when we thought we'd hit rock bottom, our bosses discovered new mining equipment and started drilling deeper. I figure it's only a matter of time before they end up summoning a Balrog at the rate they're going. It's a little too involved to explain right now, and if I can hold myself to posting more regularly here, I promise I will devote a (short) entry to go into more detail about our current clusterbang, as one of my coworkers would put it.
University is proving both more manageable and more stressful than I thought. I know I've passed both my courses based on my grades up until this point, the real question will be with how high a grade I passed. I'm hoping for an A or an A- in both, which would be ideal. A+ is not on the table at this point, but I think I can still pull off a highish grade. Tuesday was my final exam in one course, and I have a final paper due Monday (which is a bitch, as I am working nights all weekend).
I'm back on meds because my anxiety and mood were starting to spiral a little out of control, mostly spiking because of work being terrible and the added stress of university. Therapy with my nice ADHD therapist is going pretty well, if slightly slowly. I've been doing a ton of medical tests lately (I will go into that at a later date, maybe), and will have to undergo day surgery at some point in the not-quite-near future. There is an outside chance that I have cancer, but no one seems especially worried about it, so I'm choosing to not worry about it either. It's just not much fun to think about in general.
On to brighter topics! Christmas is around the corner for me (as I am a person who quasi-celebrates Christmas). I am hosting Un-Christmas at my house again this year as, as usual, I am working all through Christmas. So long as I don't have young children of my own, I don't mind working holidays. The pay is good, and I'd rather the people with young families be home with their loved ones. I and my family can celebrate any day of the week and it makes very little difference to us. I need to get my act together and clean up my damned house. Any semblance of cleaning or tidying went out the window since September except for the bare minimum, and honestly it wasn't all that great to begin with. So sometime in the next week or so I need to roll up my sleeves and git 'er done. I also need to do a proper meal plan for that day and come up with some fun food for everyone to eat. I also need to get my parents a Christmas present, no easy feat given how hard they are to shop for these days.
And the last of the exciting news is that I will be turning 40 in 21 days! I am pretty excited, and also I am throwing a cocktail party to celebrate, which is the first and probably the last time I will do that. My mother offered to pay for it as a present, which is super nice of her, but it's also been a little trying. I think she may be sublimating her desire to pay for and help plan my wedding, maybe subconsciously realizing that it will probably not happen in her lifetime. There was a limit of 30 people to the guest list, and I had to gently talk her down from inviting all of *her* friends and leaving no room at all on the guest list for mine. XD "Mim, I am sure the Smiths are lovely people, but they don't really know me. The last time we spoke was literally twenty years ago." (Names changed to protect the innocent) Anyway, she had trouble with the venue, trouble with the caterers, and it was All Very Dramatic for a while, but we appear to have turned a corner, and hopefully it will be smooth sailing from here on out.
Duty calls. Tonight is a night shift at work (hence why I'm writing this at one o'clock in the morning instead of being in bed like a sane person), and there is stuff to be done.
I may be back tomorrow. <3
I was reminded of the existence of DW and LJ by the collective meltdown on the internet about Tumblr banning all forms of porn/erotica, and all of fandom frantically looking for a new place to go and roost. If memory serves, it was cracking down on pornography and supposedly "indecent" content that sounded the death knell of LiveJournal, too, consigning it to the current quasi-wasteland of only a few regular posters and the rest of us who update only sporadically, when we remember to.
Still! I very much enjoyed LJ back when I was updating regularly, so I am giving this another whirl. The last time I wrote, my dog had died, work was kind of a shambles, and I was about to start university again after 17 years.
What has changed since then? Well, work is even more of a shambles. Just when we thought we'd hit rock bottom, our bosses discovered new mining equipment and started drilling deeper. I figure it's only a matter of time before they end up summoning a Balrog at the rate they're going. It's a little too involved to explain right now, and if I can hold myself to posting more regularly here, I promise I will devote a (short) entry to go into more detail about our current clusterbang, as one of my coworkers would put it.
University is proving both more manageable and more stressful than I thought. I know I've passed both my courses based on my grades up until this point, the real question will be with how high a grade I passed. I'm hoping for an A or an A- in both, which would be ideal. A+ is not on the table at this point, but I think I can still pull off a highish grade. Tuesday was my final exam in one course, and I have a final paper due Monday (which is a bitch, as I am working nights all weekend).
I'm back on meds because my anxiety and mood were starting to spiral a little out of control, mostly spiking because of work being terrible and the added stress of university. Therapy with my nice ADHD therapist is going pretty well, if slightly slowly. I've been doing a ton of medical tests lately (I will go into that at a later date, maybe), and will have to undergo day surgery at some point in the not-quite-near future. There is an outside chance that I have cancer, but no one seems especially worried about it, so I'm choosing to not worry about it either. It's just not much fun to think about in general.
On to brighter topics! Christmas is around the corner for me (as I am a person who quasi-celebrates Christmas). I am hosting Un-Christmas at my house again this year as, as usual, I am working all through Christmas. So long as I don't have young children of my own, I don't mind working holidays. The pay is good, and I'd rather the people with young families be home with their loved ones. I and my family can celebrate any day of the week and it makes very little difference to us. I need to get my act together and clean up my damned house. Any semblance of cleaning or tidying went out the window since September except for the bare minimum, and honestly it wasn't all that great to begin with. So sometime in the next week or so I need to roll up my sleeves and git 'er done. I also need to do a proper meal plan for that day and come up with some fun food for everyone to eat. I also need to get my parents a Christmas present, no easy feat given how hard they are to shop for these days.
And the last of the exciting news is that I will be turning 40 in 21 days! I am pretty excited, and also I am throwing a cocktail party to celebrate, which is the first and probably the last time I will do that. My mother offered to pay for it as a present, which is super nice of her, but it's also been a little trying. I think she may be sublimating her desire to pay for and help plan my wedding, maybe subconsciously realizing that it will probably not happen in her lifetime. There was a limit of 30 people to the guest list, and I had to gently talk her down from inviting all of *her* friends and leaving no room at all on the guest list for mine. XD "Mim, I am sure the Smiths are lovely people, but they don't really know me. The last time we spoke was literally twenty years ago." (Names changed to protect the innocent) Anyway, she had trouble with the venue, trouble with the caterers, and it was All Very Dramatic for a while, but we appear to have turned a corner, and hopefully it will be smooth sailing from here on out.
Duty calls. Tonight is a night shift at work (hence why I'm writing this at one o'clock in the morning instead of being in bed like a sane person), and there is stuff to be done.
I may be back tomorrow. <3
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Date: 2018-12-15 07:18 am (UTC)I'm glad University is going well, even if a bit stressful. I've often wondered if I could manage university again, not that I'm old and lazy. I have such horrible time management skills that I'm surprised I got through University the first time.
Happy Birthday in 21 days! I'll probably wish it to you again then, but just in case I forget - there you go! I hope the party goes well!
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Date: 2018-12-16 07:56 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-12-16 07:13 am (UTC)Congrats on chugging along through University and good luck with the final grades, hopefully you can enjoy a bit of winter break too! Also hope the surgery goes well and everything turns out to be fine!
Parent birthday planning sounds like that's how end up with an accidental soirée on your hands where there's a drink named after you :D
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Date: 2018-12-16 07:57 am (UTC)I don't know if I'll have a drink named after me, but that sounds like fun.
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Date: 2018-12-15 04:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-12-18 04:28 am (UTC)It's good to be back. How are YOU doing?