I haven't really mentioned it anywhere yet, but: I got a job! I start on Aug. 5th.

Yay! I saw your posts on Tumblr asking for good vibes. That's excellent news!

ION, the Throwback Thursday photos I posted on FB make me want to go back, shake my younger self, tell her that she deserves to be treated better by guys she dates, and that she is WAY cuter than she thinks.

OH MY GOD SO CUTE. Those pictures are adorable.

Yay, Atropa!

Health-ma to your kid, Cindy!

Congrats, Atropa!

Okay, I went with

On an As Needed Basis, maintain reports, metrics, workflows, etc., formerly handled by CAD/CM Manager.

Hopefully it makes it through my manager.

We love our robot vacuum. It traveled to Brazil with us. We call it Mose.

Timelies all!

Healthma to your youngest, Cindy.

Yay, Atropa!

Took today off, but not for fun reasons. Finally got an appointment with the child psychologist at 10 today(where Mr. S demonstrated many of the behaviors we've been dealing with) and dropped Mr. S off at his "camp" after. Since I would have to pick him up at 3, there was no point in me going to work.

Congrats, Attila! (Ha, autocorrect, I kinda like it! Atropa, of course)

I have had a weird day. Pretty much all day meeting with one of my more challenging customers (although it might be our salespeople who are more the source of the challenges), briefly interrupted by the employee sample sale (only spent $2 because I only had $2, sample sale is cash on the barrelhead) with surprise ice cream, and ending with a sort of epilogue of the head of the company ( or the new managing director, the founder and owner who I have only seen in quasi-ceremonial situations score) lecturing the salespeople (and incidentally me) about What Is Wrong With Our Company. I guess I can be glad that it is not primarily me, or Operations. And he made some good points, but I don't know what to really do with them.

I do not have high hopes for 2020. The ONLY way there is a chance is getting more people registered and getting non-voters to vote. Trump will win if people focus on trying to swing voters or change their minds.

If you have money or time to give, give it to orgs that are focused on that. Sister Districts is a great one, especially if you are in a safe blue area. You can get hooked up with one single district to try and help and it gets you more invested.

And clearly if you are in an area (like I am) that has horrible voter turnout, get involved with any org that is doing block walks and voter registration drives now - do not wait until 2020.

ION - I had like a comically derailed day at work - a day I NEEDED to get through a very thought out set of tasks - I honestly thought someone had set up my day as a test by about 1pm.

Mistakes (not mine) from 2018 that I have to fix TODAY.

Spam that never gets through my email, getting through.

Sales people just stopping by the office - no appointment - needing people who weren't there, asking a million questions.

Inquiries sent to ME only from people in other offices that I never deal with.

Luckily I was super productive the first half of the day, but I am still looking at a good 2 hours of work tonight.

FUUUUUUCCCKKKKKKK

Congratulations, Atropa!

Health~ma to all who need it..