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Misc catch up...
Mar. 29th, 2024 08:33 pmWe have internet again!
We're expecting an apparently near-identical storm this Sunday into Monday again, and I hope this time we dodge the power outages and lasting internet outages.
Cy is still doing well. He had one really wobbly day on Tuesday, but we think that was more a loopy gabapentin high than anything else. He finished his antibiotics today. In a little over a week we'll go back to the vet for his follow-up. The biggest struggle is that he still doesn't understand why he isn't allowed up on the bed at night, so I usually have to get up and tuck him back in to his bed a couple times overnight. (Spoiled monster.)
Went a little nuts on Backerkit's "Pintopia" event. Lots of cool enamel pins if you're into that kind of thing, which unfortunately for me, I am. That's my indulgent purchase for the next couple months. My art friends are included this year! There are also a lot of other really cool projects. I backed several, and wish I could back all the ones that caught my eye.
Apparently my company is cracking down on mandatory lunch breaks. For the most part I don't take them (and honestly prefer that, because it's meant I get to leave early one day a week in order to avoid the overtime I'm racking up by not clocking out midday, lol.) BUT now I have to start taking them, because they don't want me leaving early anymore, but even more they want to make sure that they don't have to pay out any overtime.
They're referring to the lunch breaks as ~clarity breaks~ and sending out chat reminders to "remember to take your clarity break!" and I fucking hate it, lmao.
Now I need to figure out what to do on these breaks, lol. It'd be very easy to just do a social media scroll for 20 or 30 minutes, but I don't really want to do that. Ideally I could use that chunk of time to work on something - writing, by preference - but I probably can't use a computer. If I stay at my desk, I will get dragged into working over the break, and if they want me to clock out I will not be doing that. I could bring my laptop with me and sit somewhere else, but that feels silly for just 20 minutes. I will continue contemplating.
Between the scare with Cy and then the days without internet, I feel like I lost another week+ of Stuff I Was Supposed To Do. Unfortunately, I keep wildly overestimating just how much oomph I will have after I get off of work. Like, yeah, I could do a cleaning project, and work on an editing project for a friend, and try to actually work on my own writing again someday, and find a way to get a little bit of reading done... but what if I just want to play a video game I don't have to think about? :(
We're expecting an apparently near-identical storm this Sunday into Monday again, and I hope this time we dodge the power outages and lasting internet outages.
Cy is still doing well. He had one really wobbly day on Tuesday, but we think that was more a loopy gabapentin high than anything else. He finished his antibiotics today. In a little over a week we'll go back to the vet for his follow-up. The biggest struggle is that he still doesn't understand why he isn't allowed up on the bed at night, so I usually have to get up and tuck him back in to his bed a couple times overnight. (Spoiled monster.)
Went a little nuts on Backerkit's "Pintopia" event. Lots of cool enamel pins if you're into that kind of thing, which unfortunately for me, I am. That's my indulgent purchase for the next couple months. My art friends are included this year! There are also a lot of other really cool projects. I backed several, and wish I could back all the ones that caught my eye.
Apparently my company is cracking down on mandatory lunch breaks. For the most part I don't take them (and honestly prefer that, because it's meant I get to leave early one day a week in order to avoid the overtime I'm racking up by not clocking out midday, lol.) BUT now I have to start taking them, because they don't want me leaving early anymore, but even more they want to make sure that they don't have to pay out any overtime.
They're referring to the lunch breaks as ~clarity breaks~ and sending out chat reminders to "remember to take your clarity break!" and I fucking hate it, lmao.
Now I need to figure out what to do on these breaks, lol. It'd be very easy to just do a social media scroll for 20 or 30 minutes, but I don't really want to do that. Ideally I could use that chunk of time to work on something - writing, by preference - but I probably can't use a computer. If I stay at my desk, I will get dragged into working over the break, and if they want me to clock out I will not be doing that. I could bring my laptop with me and sit somewhere else, but that feels silly for just 20 minutes. I will continue contemplating.
Between the scare with Cy and then the days without internet, I feel like I lost another week+ of Stuff I Was Supposed To Do. Unfortunately, I keep wildly overestimating just how much oomph I will have after I get off of work. Like, yeah, I could do a cleaning project, and work on an editing project for a friend, and try to actually work on my own writing again someday, and find a way to get a little bit of reading done... but what if I just want to play a video game I don't have to think about? :(
