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It's the Gaslighting For Me in These Foolish Things
I mean… Crafting some bullets because I have no brainpower left after these days lately. Went on a 2nd date with Parker last weekend. He's actually a pretty lovely dude. In fact, he's hot as he...
RAD: Parker in These Foolish Things
Name: Parker Introduction Platform: Bumble. I opened Bumble while I was solo on Saturday night, drowning my sorrows at a wine bar. Handsome dude had made a comment on a photo of me wearing a s...
Updating in These Foolish Things
The weather forecast said it was supposed to rain all weekend - including the possibility of flash flooding all weekend. The weather lady on TV was actually warming everyone to stay inside all we...
Unmoved. in These Foolish Things
I don’t know what to tell you right now. It’s been a long time since I’ve updated, so I owe you (and myself) an entry to let you know what’s happening. So the Monday before last was our first WF...
WFH #1 in These Foolish Things
Oh my goodness, how sweet it is to work from my beautiful personal space on a gorgeous Monday! I am going to LOVE Mondays for as long as I can…this is truly the space I needed. I actually wish we...
Possible *Slight* Reprieve? in These Foolish Things
Yesterday at our all-hands meeting it was announced that the whole company is WFH (or anywhere remote!) on Mondays starting this coming Monday. My guess is that things will get about 10% better n...
Sunday Scaries in These Foolish Things
I absolutely hate this feeling. I’m 10 weeks into this gig and it’s ruined my weekend. I dread going into the office tomorrow, even though I’m happy to have 2/3 of my staff in-house. I’m also int...
Back to Square One in These Foolish Things
Well, fuck. I told you I thought I was getting a little bit of a handle on work? Yeah, well. Scratch that. Yesterday the most talented person on the product development team quit. I’ve now been ...
The Quickest in These Foolish Things
I got a new battery for my personal laptop (MacBook Pro) since the battery life was about dead, and this new battery won’t even charge! I will never write an entry or put anything personal into m...
What in the Cutie Freaking Pie is Happening Here? in These Foolish Things
Well, hm. Every day at The Cutie Pie Company brings more scratching of the head. I’m six weeks in. There has been so much chaos and drama that I’m really going to have to start protecting myself...
The Cutie Pie Company in These Foolish Things
A little bit about my new job at The Cutie Pie Company. It’s stressful. My boss is the founder and CEO. She’s young and super smart and continually manic. Her brain is moving 10,000 miles a minu...
Near and Far in These Foolish Things
So, I think I’m starting to maybe kind of figure out this new city. On the one hand, since it’s only a three hour drive to my old city, it’s almost like I’m still so close. Yet, the two cities ar...
Home By 8:30 in These Foolish Things
I’m back from the wedding with Crazy Bob. Believe it or not, I was home by 8:30! I mean, we did leave at 12:30, but it is nice to be home at a decent hour. It took over an hour to get to the wed...
Day 16 in These Foolish Things
I’ve literally been on the job for 16 days now. It’s starting to sink in a bit. Maybe? It’s a lot, but at least nobody has quit since Monday. I have to give Quitter’s 30-day check-in today. Shoul...
Love It or Loathe It in These Foolish Things
Y’all. I’m too tired to write it all out, but the new job at The Cutie Pie company is anything but cute right now. It’s not like this is a big surprise, and I know I am brand new, but here are a ...
Blasts from Pasts Recent and Long Ago in These Foolish Things
Happy Sunday Night! Gotta make this brief because I’m exhausted and tomorrow starts my first full work week at The Cutie Pie Company - it’s going to be intense and I set my alarm even earlier be...
Intensity Levels in These Foolish Things
Level 0: Lovely came to visit my new home (The Place) on Sunday. She was in town with her husband to visit her in-laws and I thought she and her husband were going to come visit on their way back...
Day 1 Overview in These Foolish Things
Whew! Day 1 at The Cutie Pie Company was fast and furious, as I knew it would be. I literally had back to back to back to back meetings - no time to really even go to the bathroom. And poor Marti...
Time to WORK! in These Foolish Things
I’m heading out for my first day of work in a bit and it occurs to me that I haven’t written anything about it! I’ve had so many other big things happening with the apartment flood and the move a...
Visitors in These Foolish Things
It’s starting to get real around here. It’s Monday morning - beginning of my first work week. But I won’t start until Wednesday, as that is the first day of the pay period. I’m not mad about it ...
Those Dumb Jeans in These Foolish Things
Good Thursday morning. I can’t believe we are already nine days into February and my new job will start in less than a week. This has been a looonngg, drawn out Funemployment, hasn’t it? I was ho...
Nothing Is Easy in These Foolish Things
The electricity at The Place finally came back on after 72 hours of blackout. Last I wrote, our dear PBer, [Ylime] was letting me stay at her place at night during the outage as my place was col...
Icicles and Angels in These Foolish Things
Where to even start? I’m still unpacking - that’s kind of a given. But now I’m trying to unpack without any power on in The Place. My apartment was in the path of the Big Winter Storm of 2023. Se...
Settling In at The Place! in These Foolish Things
I’m still pretty buried in boxes, but now some of them are unpacked and there’s just stuff everywhere! Luckily, the weather here is supposed to be disastrous until at least Thursday, so I’m hunke...
Balls Deep in Boxes in These Foolish Things
So the move happened, and it actually went quite well! I’d asked the moving company to please send the same team who’d packed me up and took my things to storage. This team was lead by a very th...