What made your day today?

[Down]

This has been on tumblr, but, well, it's half way between making my week and bewildering me to the point of not knowing what a week IS, so - I figure it's worthy of mention here anyway, but my boss is suggesting that I take on the role of one of the other people in our team for six months. I'm having to apply and all, it might not even go through, but if it does it would be full time and four grades higher than my current role. (ie pay almost twice as much. That would be a nice bonus!) I'm not even expecting to get it, but that my boss and dept head think I could do that........ it's thrown me, somewhat. I'm not even officially permanent until next week! (...which they had forgotten XD)

Also now I have to do a job application and I thought I was done with them, and in the off chance I get it I might need to get another professional qualification which, uh, that would be interesting heh, and - I AM FLATTENED BY THIS but hey MY BOSS ISN'T FAKING HE THINKS I'M AN ASSET, I FEEL HAPPY

............."All shall love me and despair!" is a perfectly valid personal statement, right? Um. Oh dear........

[Milieva]

I got a violin!!   I?ve been wanting one again lately.  It?s been years since I played.  I got a new fancy tuner that tells me what notes I am playing, so I have been able to put the training tape on, so I can find the right notes when prarctising.  I?m terribly excited.   

Home alone tomorrow, so I should be able to spend a good hour or more playing.  I printed out some LOTR and Hobbit music someone arranged for Violin, because It?s more fun to practise something randomly awesome.

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I got a violin!!   I?ve been wanting one again lately.  It?s been years since I played.  I got a new fancy tuner that tells me what notes I am playing, so I have been able to put the training tape on, so I can find the right notes when prarctising.  I?m terribly excited.   

Home alone tomorrow, so I should be able to spend a good hour or more playing.  I printed out some LOTR and Hobbit music someone arranged for Violin, because It?s more fun to practise something randomly awesome.

!! AWESOME :DDDDDDDDDDD YAY VIOLIN! And ooh, yes, electric tunerthings are fun, I steal my brother's one sometimes (for the guitar, but the mic can tell if I'm fluting sharp or flat just as well XD)

(If I DO end up with a higher wage/fulltime for six months, I am GOING to put aside money for a cello and lessons.) (.......oh curse it, gaaaaaah, if I DO go full time I will be TAKING GRADE FIVE FLUTE IN THE MIDDLE aaaaaaaaaaaah why so badly timed)

Things which made my day: well, technically it WAS today, so, CLEF UNSTICKING JUST A LITTLE and letting me have a LITTLE MORE of the RIGHT version of the first scene in the next chapter, even if he DID ambush me at 1am on a work night (I am now so very sleeeeeeeepy)

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..........Cousin talking me into cosplaying Cravat!Punk Umi (except I don't have a sword or a truncheon.....) (also I have glasses but SHHHHHHH) (and my school tie will probably STILL be being my hairband ^^;;;;;;;; ) for her 30th birthday party (which is fancy dress XD)

because yes my wardrobe can manage that and there is proof in bad photo form on tumblr~

(cravat!punk is an au which I am sloooooooooooowly drawing/writing which is a post-tsubasa story which is also an AU rayearth story because I have two sets of insane mages and the grumpy swordspeople who love them which are my favourites and wanted to combine them? XD but essentially victoriana-design cyberpunk or something. IDK. Not so much of the cyber with Umi, that's what Clef's for~)

[Milieva]

I got an appointment to see a rheumatologist!!!   You have no idea how happy I am about this.  I can hardly believe how happy I was to get the new patient forms with the post. I?m positively giddy.  Perhaps I can find out something to help make this better.

I?m not asking for miracles.  I just want answers and to know treatment options. It would also be nice to not have to think about how I should be holding my wrists when I pick something up.

[Milieva]

I went swimming today for the first time in a while (at my doctor's suggestion) and feel both tired and energized... Not sure how that happened.

[Down]

I SURVIVED THE FIRST WEEK AT MY NEW ROLE just kinda maybe sorta (though SPIRITS but Tuesday is going to be INSANEEEEEEE and I have so much stuff I didn't get to at all and too much stuff to do Tuesday ANYWAY and then ON TOP OF THAT I have a stand to get up for Wednesday and lose half the day to the whole team meeting (though HEH I do not have to minute it kekekekekekeke) AND I still haven't mailed out the things people have been asking for for the past week and a half WHICH IS SO FAILING CUSTOMER SERVICE but at least ~main bit of job~ and ~secondary bit of job~ got done and- no thinking about it for three days, self. YOU CAN DO NO MORE.)

(NO ONE IS HAND-HOLDING ME I AM JUST MEANT TO GET ON WITH IT. THIS IS RATHER MORE TRUST THAN I THINK I REALLY NEEDED STRAIGHT AWAY WHEN I CAN'T ACTUALLY REMEMBER EVERYTHING I HAVE TO DO. AAAAAAH)

........but I SURVIVED. I SURVIVED! And now I am going to give in to the unresponsiveness of the internet and go away and probably to bed. It's nearly half nine! This is later than I thought I was going to manage to be awake tonight!

YAY FOR SWIMMING and hopefully good endorphin-tired mix? ^^

(I was jiving in the printer room waiting for it to finish my printing today. ...I got a few odd looks from the corridor. XD But I needed to try to wake up! Jive is easier to contain in a small space than most other dances I know~ XDDD)

[suzanami]

My first Graze.com box came today!!!

Basically for $5 a box, they send you four delicious healthy snacks. (I get mine once per week, but you can get it less often too!) You can go through the site and rate ones you don't want, or definitely want, or you'll try.
It is currently invite-only and I've given away the ones I had ALREADY. But keep a head's up because they hope to be bigger soon. Or ask around if any friends have codes left. (check some related tags on Tumblr, lots of folks give out their codes there!)

ALSO we just signed the lease for our townhouse that we'll move into in July!  SO EXCITED.  It's been a... process, because (as two of C's coworkers that live there have told us) the leasing folks are kind of incompetent.  But it's signed and he'll take it over tomorrow with questions and AaAAaaaaa

[Milieva]

My garage door is possessed.  It won?t open when I want it to, and opens when I don?t want it to.  I had to break into the back window of the garage so the repair guy and I could look at it.  Guess who gets a new garage door opener?   *groan*  Always something.  Oh well...  I think I might just take the day off work, since I already called in, and go run the errands I meant to run earlier. Like get this stash of cheques to the bank, since I keep failing at doing that.

[dinosaurjam]

I also got a Graze box today (though this is my third one). Nom nom nom. Blackcurrants are really, really tart.

Also, I managed to do a full 20 minutes of pilates tonight. (I like Blogilates - Cassey's high energy is just peppy enough to keep me going but not so peppy as to become grating. Plus the workouts are great.) Considering that a month ago I could barely do five minutes, this is a pretty big deal for me. Aw yeah.

[Milieva]

New garage door opener installed today.  Whoo!  Happy day! I can park my car inside in safety (from hail). I was hopping to try swimming again today, but it doesn?t look like it is going to happen, as they will likely be done close to the time I have to go and the cats need food, and I need to run some errands.  Perhaps I can ride my bicycle for a bit this evening, as it is lovely outside. 

[suzanami]

The cat didn't carry on all morning while we were trying to sleep!  He gets antsy and wants us up by a certain time but I was able to sleep in far too late.  Maybe he knows it's Sunday...

[suzanami]

Probably should've posted this yesterday but

THE COUNCIL CHAT!  It was a good one yesterday.  I ended up in there, more or less, from 3:30pm til midnight.  Oops.  It was great though, because I was so bored yesterday, didn't feel like doing any of my chores.  Thanks for keeping my priorities straight, guys.

[dinosaurjam]

Okay, it was actually a couple days ago... But! A couple friends and I have been looking for an apartment for a couple months now, and we just found out that we're actually going to get to rent A HOUSE that's FABULOUS for about the same per month as the apartment we were looking at would've been.

And we move in JUUUUUNE and I get to finally get out of my parents' house and I can start doing auditions and ugughghghghghgh I'M SO EXCITED.

[suzanami]

Two words: caffeine sleep.

I was up late last night because of course I was (later than usual because I'm off today whoo) but I had to get up at 6:30ish to make sure C. got up, since he has to do license bureau stuff this morning before work.  There's one energy drink that I like and that really works for me, and I had half the can right before I went to bed at like 3:45...  Woke up at 6:30 with almost no problems and now it's 8:00 and I'm wide awake with nothing to do!  Probably gonna crash around 11:00 this morning whoop but maybe I can get some writing done before then?  Gosh, I'm actually a bit hyper.

I've only done caffeine naps in the past.  Drink your caffeine of choice, nap for a half hour, and boom, wake up ready to go since it does the work after you fall asleep.  Best thing.  However trying a caffeine nap when I crash in a while is probably ill-advised...