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Long time no write
Sep. 26th, 2006 10:14 amBeen awful busy so no time to write. Working at Dell is okay. The money isn't comparable to what I was making in accounting, but I also don't want to kill myself every time I think of going to work, so I think it's worth the trade-off. Fitting in pretty well here, making friends and also doing a pretty good job at what I do, especially for someone with no real computer background to speak of. Pretty sure I don't want to stay as a front-line worker on the phones, but not really sure where I want to move to. Happy with Dell though and would like to stay here if I could. Nice working somewhere that people seem to show up relatively happy and enjoy their job and workplace.
Had an odd moment at work yesterday though... normally when I go to one of my superiors for help with stuff I'm used to standing there a moment waiting for them to finish something up before they can give me a moment. This is cool, I'm okay with waiting. So yesterday I go to one of the guys, I have his attention, and while I'm explaining my problem, he turns back to his work. I stop and say something to the effect of "oh, if you need to finish something up I can wait" and he replies with "I'm just focusing on my work because otherwise I'll be ogling you. By the way, you have cat hair on you". "Beagle actually" I reply. This kinda took me back though, I hadn't really ever thought of myself as ogle-able. I guess working in a place with maybe less than 25% female population (I think I'm being too generous) and a large geek male population sorta puts me out with the front-runners. Kinda nice, but also kinda odd, especially seeing as how I consider myself a little fat and dumpy at the moment. Though, looking around, especially on the front-lines with answering phones and tech support, I guess I am relatively high in the female attractiveness line-up here. Still, odd, very odd.
In SCA news looks like I'm a consort now. Last week Fenrick called and asked if he could fight for me in Coronet this November. I have to say, I feel really good about this. I really like Fenrick. I'm reasonably sure that his fighting is honourable (I've never seen or heard anything that would cause me to question it), he's squired to a knight I greatly respect (Vik), and I think that working with him on the throne would be good. Fenrick was also my veteran in the Lost Vikings, and I have always enjoyed that relationship with him as well. We're both prone to doing the occasional stupid thing out of the list-field (things of the "open mouth, insert foot" variety), but with each other and with Inga and Vik's guidance I'm sure we could pull off a reasonably incident-free reign. I also feel like I've finally been involved enough in the SCA and learned enough to do a reasonable job on the thrones. Of course, that also means I need to get my exchequer duckies in a row and find/train a potential replacement. *sarcasm*Yay, that'll be fun.*/sarcasm*
In SCA project news, been working away at embroidery to embellish Fenrick's bog coat. It turned out really nice, he seems to like it, and the embroidery is just making it better. So far I've put a nice, big, Lost Viking knot on the back between his shoulders, and I'm about 1/3 of the way through embroidering some knot-work for his wrists. Think I'll stop there, with it being nice and classy and interesting but without being fussy or obnoxious. I'm doing the embroidery as separate appliques so if we ever have to replace the coat I can maybe salvage the embroidery. It also allows me to work on it while he can still wear the coat, which is good.
Next project I think will be a new apron dress for me and perhaps a new tunic as well. Though with winter coming maybe I should prioritize my own bog coat. Want to do a little more research and make it accurately though, since I'm not likely to be able to afford the wool to do this more than once. And I would like this kind of life-time piece to be reasonably accurate.
Haven't done any beads in ages. Not since I re-organized the studio actually. Problem is I kinda half-finished the re-organization. Got all the bookshelves moved and re-stocked, but didn't quite finish with the closet, so right now there are closet organizers and closet contents all over the place. Maybe I should get motivated and finish that this weekend so I can get to the torch again.
So what have I been doing with my weekends? Honestly, mostly wasting them. The weather was lovely this weekend and I wasted most of it playing computer games. Unfortunately, by the time I finally got sick of the computer and started thinking about taking the dogs for a walk, the dogs were in no shape to walk. While I was distracted with the computer, Anna was off doing unsupervised doggie things, like eating a pound of candy corn I left sitting out in the living room. She slunk into the room and announced the stupidity of this choice by throwing up orange goo everywhere. We spent the rest of the evening cleaning up Anna barf as it took a few attempts to clear the system. She spent most of the evening hiding in her cage or under my sewing desk and looking absolutely miserable. Sometimes she'd roll over for a submissive tummy rub and whine when you touched her belly. She didn't even get up when we fed Lizzy dinner. By the next evening of course she was fine, had probably forgotten about the whole incident, and was likely to re-offend. I guess we just need these occasional reminders to put stuff away eh?
Had an odd moment at work yesterday though... normally when I go to one of my superiors for help with stuff I'm used to standing there a moment waiting for them to finish something up before they can give me a moment. This is cool, I'm okay with waiting. So yesterday I go to one of the guys, I have his attention, and while I'm explaining my problem, he turns back to his work. I stop and say something to the effect of "oh, if you need to finish something up I can wait" and he replies with "I'm just focusing on my work because otherwise I'll be ogling you. By the way, you have cat hair on you". "Beagle actually" I reply. This kinda took me back though, I hadn't really ever thought of myself as ogle-able. I guess working in a place with maybe less than 25% female population (I think I'm being too generous) and a large geek male population sorta puts me out with the front-runners. Kinda nice, but also kinda odd, especially seeing as how I consider myself a little fat and dumpy at the moment. Though, looking around, especially on the front-lines with answering phones and tech support, I guess I am relatively high in the female attractiveness line-up here. Still, odd, very odd.
In SCA news looks like I'm a consort now. Last week Fenrick called and asked if he could fight for me in Coronet this November. I have to say, I feel really good about this. I really like Fenrick. I'm reasonably sure that his fighting is honourable (I've never seen or heard anything that would cause me to question it), he's squired to a knight I greatly respect (Vik), and I think that working with him on the throne would be good. Fenrick was also my veteran in the Lost Vikings, and I have always enjoyed that relationship with him as well. We're both prone to doing the occasional stupid thing out of the list-field (things of the "open mouth, insert foot" variety), but with each other and with Inga and Vik's guidance I'm sure we could pull off a reasonably incident-free reign. I also feel like I've finally been involved enough in the SCA and learned enough to do a reasonable job on the thrones. Of course, that also means I need to get my exchequer duckies in a row and find/train a potential replacement. *sarcasm*Yay, that'll be fun.*/sarcasm*
In SCA project news, been working away at embroidery to embellish Fenrick's bog coat. It turned out really nice, he seems to like it, and the embroidery is just making it better. So far I've put a nice, big, Lost Viking knot on the back between his shoulders, and I'm about 1/3 of the way through embroidering some knot-work for his wrists. Think I'll stop there, with it being nice and classy and interesting but without being fussy or obnoxious. I'm doing the embroidery as separate appliques so if we ever have to replace the coat I can maybe salvage the embroidery. It also allows me to work on it while he can still wear the coat, which is good.
Next project I think will be a new apron dress for me and perhaps a new tunic as well. Though with winter coming maybe I should prioritize my own bog coat. Want to do a little more research and make it accurately though, since I'm not likely to be able to afford the wool to do this more than once. And I would like this kind of life-time piece to be reasonably accurate.
Haven't done any beads in ages. Not since I re-organized the studio actually. Problem is I kinda half-finished the re-organization. Got all the bookshelves moved and re-stocked, but didn't quite finish with the closet, so right now there are closet organizers and closet contents all over the place. Maybe I should get motivated and finish that this weekend so I can get to the torch again.
So what have I been doing with my weekends? Honestly, mostly wasting them. The weather was lovely this weekend and I wasted most of it playing computer games. Unfortunately, by the time I finally got sick of the computer and started thinking about taking the dogs for a walk, the dogs were in no shape to walk. While I was distracted with the computer, Anna was off doing unsupervised doggie things, like eating a pound of candy corn I left sitting out in the living room. She slunk into the room and announced the stupidity of this choice by throwing up orange goo everywhere. We spent the rest of the evening cleaning up Anna barf as it took a few attempts to clear the system. She spent most of the evening hiding in her cage or under my sewing desk and looking absolutely miserable. Sometimes she'd roll over for a submissive tummy rub and whine when you touched her belly. She didn't even get up when we fed Lizzy dinner. By the next evening of course she was fine, had probably forgotten about the whole incident, and was likely to re-offend. I guess we just need these occasional reminders to put stuff away eh?
