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Some catching up...
Sep. 18th, 2021 08:32 amSo, my waistline has definitely expanded over the last 18 months. Of my four suits, I can't fasten the pants on two of them. I don't believe I'm eating more and I'm definitely exercising more, so I suspect it's hormonal. I'm giving myself until Christmas to see if the extra walking to and from the office has an impact. Anyway, rather than buy anything on ebay because I just didn't have time to wait for it to arrive I went into an actual shop and bought actual new clothes! Two dresses and a long skirt. They aren't the nicest things I've ever bought but a) it was an emergency, b) they're floaty and cool in the continuing warm weather, and c) they're comfortable!
If we get to Christmas and there's no significant change to my waistline, I'll accept that this is my new body shape and buy clothes accordingly, but I didn't want to buy lots of stuff in a larger size only for my waist to shrink again.
Having discovered which desk I was 'supposed' to be sitting at, I began moving the previous occupier's stuff off it. The desk has a really neat wire cradle thing for holding the gang to plug all the hardware into tucked away behind. In order to unplug the old monitors I had to pull the desk out. We have Perspex screens between our desks, now. The ones at the sides go all the way to the floor; the ones facing are balanced on the desks, which I hadn't realised. Can you see where this is going? Yup, that's right - Rosa the Bull in the Proverbial China Shop pulled out the desk and the screen at the back of my desk keeled over. The only real damage was some scratching on the beautiful new screens but it could have been worse.
Anyway, two of the chaps took pity on me and helped me to get everything set straight again. The screen was surprisingly heavy and, once it had fallen on the floor, very awkward to get hold of and put back in place.
This week I've been organising meetings - and meetings about meetings. And I've also been preparing for my annual review (which may also be the review for my regrade...?) and I'm very impressed with what I've done in the last year! I definitely deserve that regrade, IMHO. xD
The downside of being back in the office is that I've lost the discipline of only shopping once a week. Every time I'm in town I decide to 'just pop into' shop x. Really, really want to curb that tendency for lots of reasons.
And I've started editing my 70 x 700 stories. I have some possible ideas for Nano - or I may charge on with the editing. We shall see...
But that's life at the moment :)
If we get to Christmas and there's no significant change to my waistline, I'll accept that this is my new body shape and buy clothes accordingly, but I didn't want to buy lots of stuff in a larger size only for my waist to shrink again.
Having discovered which desk I was 'supposed' to be sitting at, I began moving the previous occupier's stuff off it. The desk has a really neat wire cradle thing for holding the gang to plug all the hardware into tucked away behind. In order to unplug the old monitors I had to pull the desk out. We have Perspex screens between our desks, now. The ones at the sides go all the way to the floor; the ones facing are balanced on the desks, which I hadn't realised. Can you see where this is going? Yup, that's right - Rosa the Bull in the Proverbial China Shop pulled out the desk and the screen at the back of my desk keeled over. The only real damage was some scratching on the beautiful new screens but it could have been worse.
Anyway, two of the chaps took pity on me and helped me to get everything set straight again. The screen was surprisingly heavy and, once it had fallen on the floor, very awkward to get hold of and put back in place.
This week I've been organising meetings - and meetings about meetings. And I've also been preparing for my annual review (which may also be the review for my regrade...?) and I'm very impressed with what I've done in the last year! I definitely deserve that regrade, IMHO. xD
The downside of being back in the office is that I've lost the discipline of only shopping once a week. Every time I'm in town I decide to 'just pop into' shop x. Really, really want to curb that tendency for lots of reasons.
And I've started editing my 70 x 700 stories. I have some possible ideas for Nano - or I may charge on with the editing. We shall see...
But that's life at the moment :)
