Tagged: thedayjob

21
Oct
2026

WHEN I STARTED, WHEN I’M STOPPING

I had a mammogram (free) on Oct 12 and the results came today: no signs of breast cancer. Reason to celebrate! And today, we celebrated my 22-year work anniversary at our afternoon team meeting. My manager looked up my actual hiring date and it turns out it was officially October 18 (which was Sunday), but I hadn’t really been thinking about it. I knew it was in October, and this morning someone on LinkedIn congratulated me. Haha! 22 years: crazy. So I went down to the café and bought silviakaka and another pastry of saffron and coconut and brought it...

15
Oct
2026

POPPING IN, POPPING OUT

This week is kicking my ass. It’s Thursday evening and I cannot WAIT for the weekend. Anders told me that he talked to his sister today and she said she has only 11 work days left until retirement. Her husband is even closer. It made me start having retirement fantasies. Maybe getting closer to retirement is a GOOD thing? Hmmm. We have one person out for personal reasons, and I have been feeling fairly overwhelmed after taking over 2 of her projects, on top of all the ones I already have. I do a lot of smaller booth design projects,...

29
Aug
2026

DRESSING UP, THEN DOWN

Toe news: it’s much better, though still not 100%. There is still some infection, I think, because the top of it is still quite red, though it’s not swollen anymore and doesn’t hurt unless I press on it, but I can still tell that there is probably nail pushing in where it shouldn’t be. I can at least wear shoes again, which is a relief. I was in Båstad for a 2-day work event, a Global Sales & Marketing summit, lots of company rah-rah, which I don’t care for, but lots of fun moments as well. We had 3 buses...

10
Jul
2026

SUMMER SERENITY

I don’t really mind working the summer months, though it’s not fun watching almost all of my colleagues take off for 3 or 4 weeks of vacation at the same time. Because I took 2 weeks early, the rest of my summer vacation doesn’t start until the beginning of August, though honestly, I’m considering changing to taking all the Fridays during the fall off again. Even if I take the 2 weeks in August, I can still probably take off most of the Fridays in the fall as I will still have 2 weeks, plus another week of rollovers that...

13
Aug
2025

FIRST WORLD PROBLEM

I’ve been thinking about how best to use up some of the 3 vacation weeks that turned into sick leave this summer, so that they don’t roll over and cause me problems later (at some point, if you don’t use your vacation days and they keep rolling over for 5 years, you are forced to take them out before the fiscal year is up, which can cause all kinds of panic and problems at work). Years ago, I had this happen, and I had to use up 2 weeks worth of vacation days before the end of March (my company’s...

22
Jul
2025

BACK TO THE GRIND, EXCEPT IT’S NOT A GRIND WHEN YOU LOVE IT

Back at work, back to “real life”, back to routines, and alarm clocks, and going out of the house (nearly) every day. It’s been a soft start so far, though I’m only 2 days in, as there aren’t very many people in the office, I have no meetings, and the amount of work right now is actually extremely low and very manageable. I had caught up on all my outstanding jobs that were waiting for me before Monday, so I was in good shape when I came into the office. There are only 4 people on my team (including me)...

20
Jan
2025

MONDAY MUSINGS

FINALLY got a response from my doctor and a renewal for my prescription of nerve pain medication which I would have run out of tomorrow. Whew. Under the wire. TWO weeks before he responded, and it took 3 messages in the ongoing medical chat, a voicemail requesting the renewal, and another phone call this morning. Geez. I was completely stressed out about this. He at least apologized and said he’d been home sick and there isn’t anyone else covering his patients. Which is ridiculous. I couldn’t exactly berate him because it feels like it’s a bigger problem, but what if...

09
Sep
2024

DOWN AND OUT

We had a fire drill at the office this morning. We’ve been in the new building since 2022, even though it was ready before that. Since we were 100% at home, we didn’t get back into the office for awhile, and then only gradually. I can’t remember that we have actually had a fire drill before since we’ve been back. I know that there have been drills, but not ones where we had to evacuate. We’re on the 7th floor, so it’s a long way down when you can’t take the elevator. It’s longer when you have a bad knee...

03
Jun
2024

LA LA LA

Sometimes I feel out of step with the other members of my team. I don’t know if it’s because of ME, personally, or a cultural difference (they’re all Swedish), or my age, or what. They all agree on some things that I don’t agree with at all, or at least I don’t care about. I’ve talked to my manager(s) about it, and they seem to think that it’s just me, and have reassured me more than once that they are grateful I am different. Ha! Tonight it’s cooled down quite a lot from the humidity and high temps of yesterday,...

02
Apr
2024

APRIL?! APRIL SHOWERS AND APRIL HOURS

Holy rabbits, Batman, how can it be April already? Yesterday was a holiday here in Sweden since it was Easter Monday, which was a shame, because it meant we couldn’t pull April Fool’s pranks on our colleagues in the office. One of the big Swedish newspapers had an excellent joke article on their main page, mentioning that Ven, the island off the coast of southern Sweden, was going to have to lose 500 meters worth of land in order to accommodate NATO warships. I saw some funny ones after the fact today. One worth mentioning was Dulux Paints Instagram post...

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