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Life, The Universe, and Everything (Else)
Apr. 12th, 2012 01:03 pmIt's been a while since I did more than a meme or a whinge post, so here I am with another of those perennial updates of mine. In point form 'cause life is, in fact, very busy lately and it feels like I don't have a lot of time for myself.
1) Work: She Who Shall Not Be Named (aka, the lawyer who treated me like a moron) has left, and we have a rotation lawyer for three months, who is awesome. We had lunch together at the sushi place yesterday, even. It also means I have tonnes of work, between case reassignment of the old lawyer's piles o' stuff, four lawyers all needing me to do things and catching up from my four weeks' vacation in January-February. We've also had a time docketing system instituted for the admin staff, which means I have to account for all of my time. Right now I'm "answering emails". ;) It does mean things are tenser here, tho', which is always wearing. The more established staff are unhappy about the whole deal, which leads to griping and bitching.
(Case in point re the busy - I started this post two hours ago and then got swamped by work again)
2) House hunting: Yep, that's right, we're looking to move from the apartment. The roomie and the pretty girl are wanting to move in together and because they are nice, awesome people, they want me around too. So we're looking for a house in the area, preferably with two living spaces - the main house and then a separate basement/attic apartment dealie for me and my two boykits.
It's not actually that easy. *sigh* I let myself think we'd found something earlier this week, only to have it be rented out from under us. I hate disappointment. I'm also getting my Spring Relocation Twitch on, which is like when normal people do spring cleaning, except I have the urge to put all my stuff in a box and move to a new house. So the time it's taking is frustrating me too. Also, note to rental advertisers - if the basement apartment is not available, don't advertise it! It's really annoying to find somewhere that's perfect, only to be told the basement apartment isn't available. :P
3) Miscellaneous. Since work is not getting any quieter, everything else ends up in the last bullet point. Life is generally good, although I'm worn out a lot because of aforementioned lack of me time/space. I have an appointment on Friday to get my face checked for skin cancers (it's an Aussie tradition!) and I'll ask him to look at the Incredible Bleeding Lip as well, in case it's something like that. I took tomorrow off for that, and for giving myself time to actually do some of the things I've been wanting to do for me. Still working on getting to the pool, as there was another bout of bronchitis after I got back from Australia and allergies up the wazoo, plus the house hunting thing eating my brain.
Roomie and Pretty Girl are on a cruise at the moment, getting back on Saturday, so I'm cat-sitting. I spent last night up at L's place keeping Eliot company, so he's a lot more settled this morning. Tonight will be cleaning all the kitty litter in the world. After viewing another house.
Oh, and last weekend we played D&D with the London crew, plus the Toronto folks. A lot of fun, even if Hope killed me in the end. Curse you, twin!
Any way, winding up now before I have to stop mid-way again and forget what I was doing.
1) Work: She Who Shall Not Be Named (aka, the lawyer who treated me like a moron) has left, and we have a rotation lawyer for three months, who is awesome. We had lunch together at the sushi place yesterday, even. It also means I have tonnes of work, between case reassignment of the old lawyer's piles o' stuff, four lawyers all needing me to do things and catching up from my four weeks' vacation in January-February. We've also had a time docketing system instituted for the admin staff, which means I have to account for all of my time. Right now I'm "answering emails". ;) It does mean things are tenser here, tho', which is always wearing. The more established staff are unhappy about the whole deal, which leads to griping and bitching.
(Case in point re the busy - I started this post two hours ago and then got swamped by work again)
2) House hunting: Yep, that's right, we're looking to move from the apartment. The roomie and the pretty girl are wanting to move in together and because they are nice, awesome people, they want me around too. So we're looking for a house in the area, preferably with two living spaces - the main house and then a separate basement/attic apartment dealie for me and my two boykits.
It's not actually that easy. *sigh* I let myself think we'd found something earlier this week, only to have it be rented out from under us. I hate disappointment. I'm also getting my Spring Relocation Twitch on, which is like when normal people do spring cleaning, except I have the urge to put all my stuff in a box and move to a new house. So the time it's taking is frustrating me too. Also, note to rental advertisers - if the basement apartment is not available, don't advertise it! It's really annoying to find somewhere that's perfect, only to be told the basement apartment isn't available. :P
3) Miscellaneous. Since work is not getting any quieter, everything else ends up in the last bullet point. Life is generally good, although I'm worn out a lot because of aforementioned lack of me time/space. I have an appointment on Friday to get my face checked for skin cancers (it's an Aussie tradition!) and I'll ask him to look at the Incredible Bleeding Lip as well, in case it's something like that. I took tomorrow off for that, and for giving myself time to actually do some of the things I've been wanting to do for me. Still working on getting to the pool, as there was another bout of bronchitis after I got back from Australia and allergies up the wazoo, plus the house hunting thing eating my brain.
Roomie and Pretty Girl are on a cruise at the moment, getting back on Saturday, so I'm cat-sitting. I spent last night up at L's place keeping Eliot company, so he's a lot more settled this morning. Tonight will be cleaning all the kitty litter in the world. After viewing another house.
Oh, and last weekend we played D&D with the London crew, plus the Toronto folks. A lot of fun, even if Hope killed me in the end. Curse you, twin!
Any way, winding up now before I have to stop mid-way again and forget what I was doing.
