I just completed a two year long journey of getting my GED, which involved a lot of things I just didn't think I was ready for. The work needed to play catch up, having to kick myself into a proper schedule for classes, acquiring the work ethic to see it through to the end. It was scary, very scary.
For the first time in a long time I feel like I'm a functional person. I feel like I've proved that to myself. I love that. I love that a lot.
Ask me about professional wrestling.
I have spent an awful lot of time on trains today, travelling about two hundred miles to attend a job interview, now I am on the way back.
As such I am going to be exhausted by the time I get home at 10pm or so but as I was leaving the building where I was interviewed? I had a call from the director who interviewed me saying how he felt it had gone really well, it was a pleasure to meet me and he wanted to arrange for a call with myself and his own boss ASAP.
So I am pretty sure that I am going to get a verbal offer for the job of Senior Export Control Manager for Europe tomorrow evening, for a company employing 8,000 people. I am thirty five and six years ago I was severely depressed in a shitty admin role with no degree and what I thought were minimal prospects.
So thank you SSRI medication. You really fucking work.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/researchers-create-first-honey-bee-vaccine-180970985/
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I have found/been found by relatives on my biological father's side of my heretofore unknown family tree. I have a half-brother. Since I do not want to risk destroying anyone's holidays I will send a letter after them (to bio father) with some info and to leave contact, if any, up to him. I do have reason to believe that it isn't unwelcome.
I snooped and looked at half-brother's webpage. My twins look so much like him it made me cry.
My adoptive family experience was significantly fucked up enough for me to be very careful to have absolutely no expectations (except for the worst).
But still. It's another piece of my past solved.
Things I Did Yesterday:
.....My life is fucking weird, man.
@dreampipe said in RL things I love:
I just completed a two year long journey of getting my GED, which involved a lot of things I just didn't think I was ready for. The work needed to play catch up, having to kick myself into a proper schedule for classes, acquiring the work ethic to see it through to the end. It was scary, very scary.
For the first time in a long time I feel like I'm a functional person. I feel like I've proved that to myself. I love that. I love that a lot.
Congratulations, that's really awesome. You are entitled to feel proud of yourself. Super proud. Celebrate!
I got a promotion yesterday at work. This may not seem like a huge thing to a lot of people, but I've been at this job for a year. The last time I was at a job and it lasted longer than a year was 2009. So, a really long time ago.
I've had to crawl out of a very deep hole to get here. I mean, I look at what I received yesterday, and while a $1.50/hr increase in pay is not, well, it's not going to solve all my money problems overnight as much as I wish it would, it's still something to be proud of. Never mind that I think I've finally found a workplace that I could stay at until I retire. I like the company, I like the people, and I(mostly)respect the leadership.
Getting off third shift hours will be the best part. Moving to second shift isn't great, but it's a step up when it comes to having a life outside of work. And maybe I'll be able to RP more. So there's perks to the whole thing.
Family movie is watched, stockings are stuffed, single santa gift for the 4 year old (a matchbox car garage with carwash/repair shop) is assembled, I've prepped as much as I can for a house full of chosen family to join hubby, the kids, and I for dinner tomorrow (standing rib roast, cornish hens, yorkshire puddings, all the fixings). My heart is very happy.
Made my D&D DM mutter "Well, fuck..." after beheading an enemy she'd been working towards making the big bad for this arc of our campaign.
I've been doing the curbside pickup at Walmart because if your order is over $50, there's no added fee. And as far as I have been able to tell, prices are the same as in-store. So it's just... a lot easier on my legs to do it that way (and cuts down on impulse buys!). I mean, I get groceries twice a month and I've gone from $80-100 per down to $60-80 per. So it's def. helping.
But today I discovered... I had the store brand for two items and they were marked as substitution-OK. They got substituted (for name-brand items) and I got charged only for the original cost.
I don't know if this was a slip-up on their part or standard procedure, but I know Instacart never did that. If it got substituted, you paid the price of the new item (which caused me to watch things like a hawk when they were shopping because their shoppers often grabbed ridic things that were like 'Oh, the $4 one isn't available so here I'll grab this $12 one that's twice the size!').
Regardless. I'm happy about it. Got everything I needed and at the original cost (well, not counting the must-be-weighed produce but that's to be expected).
Saying the quiet parts out loud since 1996.
@auspice That is standard procedure. They will also upsize something at the original cost to stay in brand first, before going off brand.
@betternow said in RL things I love:
@auspice That is standard procedure. They will also upsize something at the original cost to stay in brand first, before going off brand.
It's good to know! I leave a lot of things marked 'do not substitute' generally because I don't want to randomly pay more. Today the things that got substituted were things I needed. Now I won't risk going without stuff I want for fear they'll do like Instacart would (srsly, their shoppers made dumb choices when it comes to substitutions... if I want 8oz of tomato paste, get the other brand's 8oz. Not the other brand's 16oz. 
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I was trolling around Audible looking for something to spend my last credits on so I can cancel my subscription and save some dollars. In the process of doing so, I discovered that there is a version Foucault's Pendulum narrated by Tim Curry.
YOU'RE WELCOME.
My new instant pot.
Now I just need to figure out how to cook rice or noodles + chicken in it at the same time.
Two instant pots!
@misadventure There's a method called the pot-in-pot method that sort of does this, but I don't have any stainless steel or pyrex bowls.
I just completed a two year long journey of getting my GED, which involved a lot of things I just didn't think I was ready for. The work needed to play catch up, having to kick myself into a proper schedule for classes, acquiring the work ethic to see it through to the end. It was scary, very scary.
For the first time in a long time I feel like I'm a functional person. I feel like I've proved that to myself. I love that. I love that a lot.
