[12%] this whole week had mood swings
Feb. 14th, 2021 08:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
flexagonI got freaked out and overreactive / panicky at some point earlier this week (Weds and Thurs). It was all over things that should've been manageable, but too damn many of them, and including a small medical uncertainty. Also a friend thing -- have I mentioned that I dislike when things aren't really about me? Translation: flexagon, you are powerless to do anything about this. Give up. Turn your attention elsewhere. Yeah, if there's one thing I learned from the Lions it'd be that. So there was too much in total, and then on Friday a lot of it began to swing better. A lot better.
Work had three people from my old team landing new jobs this week. I had my hands in all three, but I was critical to one in particular that came through on Friday: not only did I meet "in person" with the hiring skip-level to explain why the person would be great, but I sent documentation on a headcount trick that made the person be hirable "for free" in that new group, and without that I think it wouldn't have happened. Yes, I am proud of that one. Pure icing on the cake that someone (a stranger) sent me a peer bonus and someone else (a stranger?) randomly complimented me on an anonymous internal forum.
Handstands: I just held a 60-second straight handstand in class today. Finally!! I posted that on FB and said it's officially the best Valentine's Day. Which probably made people worry about my marriage and/or romantic life, but only if they don't know about me and handstands. :)
Valentine's Day turned out to be the best day to introduce Norwood and Helios to each other, so I did that (with the help of some ridiculous special V-day donuts from a local donut place. They were pink! With chocolate-covered strawberries on top!). The two of them went on a walk and now they like each other. I knew they would but I set them up carefully anyway, and now it's real and I reap the warm fuzzies. Then Norwood brought me down to RI and we did a little bit of a kink thing with our Valentine's dinner (me all dressed up, eating fancy bouillabaisse and crab cakes out of a dog bowl on the floor) and that was fun. The bug and I also did V-Day (Observed) yesterday, involving cooking a meal kit from Gobble and putting together our new weightlifting bench, and that felt really good too. We are in the middle of a lot of nesting right now and I like it.
I am so tipsy and sleepy. I'm glad I have tomorrow off work.
Work had three people from my old team landing new jobs this week. I had my hands in all three, but I was critical to one in particular that came through on Friday: not only did I meet "in person" with the hiring skip-level to explain why the person would be great, but I sent documentation on a headcount trick that made the person be hirable "for free" in that new group, and without that I think it wouldn't have happened. Yes, I am proud of that one. Pure icing on the cake that someone (a stranger) sent me a peer bonus and someone else (a stranger?) randomly complimented me on an anonymous internal forum.
Handstands: I just held a 60-second straight handstand in class today. Finally!! I posted that on FB and said it's officially the best Valentine's Day. Which probably made people worry about my marriage and/or romantic life, but only if they don't know about me and handstands. :)
Valentine's Day turned out to be the best day to introduce Norwood and Helios to each other, so I did that (with the help of some ridiculous special V-day donuts from a local donut place. They were pink! With chocolate-covered strawberries on top!). The two of them went on a walk and now they like each other. I knew they would but I set them up carefully anyway, and now it's real and I reap the warm fuzzies. Then Norwood brought me down to RI and we did a little bit of a kink thing with our Valentine's dinner (me all dressed up, eating fancy bouillabaisse and crab cakes out of a dog bowl on the floor) and that was fun. The bug and I also did V-Day (Observed) yesterday, involving cooking a meal kit from Gobble and putting together our new weightlifting bench, and that felt really good too. We are in the middle of a lot of nesting right now and I like it.
I am so tipsy and sleepy. I'm glad I have tomorrow off work.
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Date: 2021-02-15 10:17 pm (UTC)I thought nobody would ever ask. It's the percent vaccinated in Massachusetts (first shot)... I'm lifting it from this page and oh my goddess, is it ever cheering to watch those numbers climb.
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