I decided to wait until I’d been on the new job for a month before writing about it. No, that’s not really true, I have just been either too cold or too busy (or both) to just sit down and write about my life when I get home from work every day. I still talk about my life plenty, but writing about it is another matter. But I haven’t forgotten about you! About four times the past week or so, I start thinking to myself “ooh that would be a good blog starter.” And then I just never put it down on paper. Or computer screen. So I’ll just splat everything I can think of here in case it takes me another month to post!
1. This is my first post since last year when I was 25!
2. Why do French fries taste so good?
3. I eat my M&Ms by color when they are in a bowl. If I eat them straight from the bag I don’t really care. Of course, the color order is logical (to me), but for any illogical readers, I will list it here for you: brown, yellow, green, orange, red, blue. If you try it, you will see that after eating all the brown ones, the yellow ones stick out the most – naturally, they are the next to go. And so on, and so forth. Occasionally there is some variation on the order for the last three, but typically I go with the order stated above.
4. I also stir with a purpose. When I am trying to mix something (e.g. my oatmeal in the morning, or leftovers I am reheating in the microwave), I always try to stir so that the bottom middle is now on the outside top, and vice versa. I think this is the best way to disperse ingredients or heat evenly… but I also realize that most people probably just stick the spoon in and stir! I have tried not to care, but now that I have become accustomed to the evenness and equality of and within my food, I don’t know if I’ll ever really be able to “just stir.”
5. New job is great! There is definitely a lot to learn, but I think I’m doing well. The first couple of weeks I was just writing copious notes (I have about 9 pages of typed notes) and basically letting things go in one ear and out the other. I know that sounds kind of bad, but there was so much, it would have been way too crazy to try to absorb and understand it all the first couple of weeks, hence the copious note-taking. But after the first few weeks, things started to click, and I started remembering things (as opposed to having to always reference my notes, which I still do, of course). They said in my interview it will easily take a year before I’m really comfortable in the position and know most things, because some things only come up once or twice a year, and there’s just a lot to learn. BUT my trainer (who has been doing my job for umpteen years… -side note: umpteen did not get spellchecked! Who knew that was a Word-approved word??-) felt comfortable enough to leave me by myself for a day ALREADY (one month to the day of starting the position) and a couple of days ago when my desk was covered in papers, she came up to me and said, “You’re doing a good job.” Thanks! Also, about two weeks in, one of my interviewers (the one I was less sure about before, I think I referred to this person as Interviewer A) came down and was asking how I was doing, and I said “there’s a lot to learn” and she said, “You’ll get it sooner or later” and my trainer said, “I think it’ll be sooner. And that’s a statement of faith for me – I wouldn’t usually say that.” So that was also nice :) I am definitely glad I made the change.
6. We have been watching Lost. Before I started watching this with Adam I had never seen any episodes and didn’t know anything about it. But I like it! It is kind of frustrating because sometimes they do the stupidest things… and are you seriously going to tell me that they would just “give up” looking for the pregnant lady??? Of all the people on that island, the pregnant lady (Claire) and the little boy are the two that any sane, real, not-on-TV people would not just stop looking for. And since she came back and didn’t have any memory, I said to Adam, “Is that because the writers couldn’t think of what happened to her and why she was gone for so long, so they just decided to have her lose her memory?” And he said, “Probably.” No, we’re not cynical at all. :) I do like it, though. Adam only had the first two seasons, but we’ll probably buy at least a couple more. If they get too crazy, I won’t buy them all, but I’m willing to try another season or two.
Also, I'm sick. I miss breathing through my nose, and my toungue feels weird because I keep breathing through my mouth. And most things taste kind of funny. I had Adam try my orange juice last night to make sure it was good - I didn't want to be drinking expired orange juice on top of having a cold!
Ok, that's it for now. I'm sure I missed some things, but hopefully now I will get better about actually posting. Hope everyone had wonderful Christmases and New Year's and Groundhog's Days!!
