Happy New Year 🎇
Jan. 1st, 2022 02:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
allekhaHappy new Gregorian calendar year to everyone!
Z and I drove down to my parents' on Christmas Eve. Unfortunately, our journey time almost doubled because soon after leaving, we got a flat tire, had to call AAA (Z had no jack in his car), and then we had to go get a new tire, and of course on Christmas Eve there's only one tech in the shop... but it could have been much worse. We didn't get stranded in the cold anywhere, and we eventually made it once the tire was replaced.
Z got me a new computer mouse (as I requested - my old one had gone v. buggy) and a bunch of pictures of his cat 'hunting' the mouse xD I got him a new controller because his old one had gone v. buggy lol, and I also drew him some D&D art. He said it looked like a Neopets map haha. I am not good at drawing, but it was fun to make for him. (I also drew a ghost jellyfish for Multifandom Doodle. So much good stuff in that collection, I loved looking through it.) My dad got several books on math and ecology, and my mom received lots of coffee and mead and black licorice, which she has kindly shared with me
Then Z went back home :( I am still scheduled to meet with my new co-workers who are around on Monday, though more Covid has thrown a bit of a wrench into things. We will play it by ear. I went in for my employee health check thing, where they verified that I am vaccinated and am too boring to take drugs. They also gave me a blood test for TB - the phlebotomist, who would usually be working with children, is the most gentle and soft-spoken person I've ever had take my blood. Afterward, we checked out the nearby apartments and more excitingly, the ice rink! It's got windows!
We also went shopping several times over the past few days, because I needed work pants that actually fit properly and also work shoes. The pants we found easily - on top of normal pockets they both have secret side-seam pockets - but apparently this is not the time of year for anyone to be selling work shoes I both can wear and like. After half a dozen stores over two days, we circled back and I picked up the one pair of shoes that I had put down as a maybe - they're technically too big for me (smallest size from the men's section), but not in a way that makes them hard to walk in, and they're comfortable. I'm probably not going to be getting a ton of wear out of any of these things soon at this rate, but at least I have them.
Otherwise, it's been chilling at home, eating some delicious meals, and going for walks in the woods. And re-sending documents to HR that I have already sent to them. They have received one document multiple times now, and I just got an email telling me to bring it in my first day 😅 And also watching JP Nats - I skipped RusNats except for Zhenya's EX, which by osmosis seems to have been a good decision? Anyway, I love Yuzu's new SP and costume, although I am kind of upset at him casually talking about hitting his head repeatedly in pursuit of the 4A. You only get one brain, Yuzu, please take care of it.
I don't have any firm resolutions for this year except that I want to do well at my new job :)
Z and I drove down to my parents' on Christmas Eve. Unfortunately, our journey time almost doubled because soon after leaving, we got a flat tire, had to call AAA (Z had no jack in his car), and then we had to go get a new tire, and of course on Christmas Eve there's only one tech in the shop... but it could have been much worse. We didn't get stranded in the cold anywhere, and we eventually made it once the tire was replaced.
Z got me a new computer mouse (as I requested - my old one had gone v. buggy) and a bunch of pictures of his cat 'hunting' the mouse xD I got him a new controller because his old one had gone v. buggy lol, and I also drew him some D&D art. He said it looked like a Neopets map haha. I am not good at drawing, but it was fun to make for him. (I also drew a ghost jellyfish for Multifandom Doodle. So much good stuff in that collection, I loved looking through it.) My dad got several books on math and ecology, and my mom received lots of coffee and mead and black licorice, which she has kindly shared with me
Then Z went back home :( I am still scheduled to meet with my new co-workers who are around on Monday, though more Covid has thrown a bit of a wrench into things. We will play it by ear. I went in for my employee health check thing, where they verified that I am vaccinated and am too boring to take drugs. They also gave me a blood test for TB - the phlebotomist, who would usually be working with children, is the most gentle and soft-spoken person I've ever had take my blood. Afterward, we checked out the nearby apartments and more excitingly, the ice rink! It's got windows!
We also went shopping several times over the past few days, because I needed work pants that actually fit properly and also work shoes. The pants we found easily - on top of normal pockets they both have secret side-seam pockets - but apparently this is not the time of year for anyone to be selling work shoes I both can wear and like. After half a dozen stores over two days, we circled back and I picked up the one pair of shoes that I had put down as a maybe - they're technically too big for me (smallest size from the men's section), but not in a way that makes them hard to walk in, and they're comfortable. I'm probably not going to be getting a ton of wear out of any of these things soon at this rate, but at least I have them.
Otherwise, it's been chilling at home, eating some delicious meals, and going for walks in the woods. And re-sending documents to HR that I have already sent to them. They have received one document multiple times now, and I just got an email telling me to bring it in my first day 😅 And also watching JP Nats - I skipped RusNats except for Zhenya's EX, which by osmosis seems to have been a good decision? Anyway, I love Yuzu's new SP and costume, although I am kind of upset at him casually talking about hitting his head repeatedly in pursuit of the 4A. You only get one brain, Yuzu, please take care of it.
I don't have any firm resolutions for this year except that I want to do well at my new job :)
