I want to wish you all a Merry Christmas! Please have a safe and happy holidays.
We finished up our shopping and wrapping today, and will have loads and loads of family and food and gifts and cheery times.
Shame, really, I came down with the plague two days ago. ha ha. Mmmm nyquil and eggnog!
Work this week has been interesting. CSS, MySQL, PHP, and a Mac computer. Yay!
So, Yule it up! Be happy and be loved!
Ding dong! verily the sky
Is riv’n with dreamling singing.
Ding Dong Merrily on High
from the Christmas Song Generator.
picked up via
Whew, the first 2.5 days at the new gig were great. The people are really nice and cool, the work is completely full of things I can do, yay for css, xhtml, php. There is a preference for both php and web standards if possible.
I’m working on a pc with a nice big monitor. It’s totally ok for me to bring in my ibook and listen to music/podcasts while I work.
Still trying to figure if the beltline or 113-M is a better way for me to go.
Using my skills and brain for the web stuff is good, if a bit tiring. The last month and a half was just internet researching, which required critical thinking, of course, but not a whole lot of mental problem solving.
I hope this gig has lots of ongoing work for me. It’s nice.
Add the drive home placing me at home around 6 or so, and you get a relatively quiet introspective dreamling who eats her dinner and goes off to read and then sleep.
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Mom should fly home from Cancun today. It’s been so strange not to be able to talk with her all week about the gig, and Christmas and everything. We’re a close family, so we end up phoning or at least texting throughout the week. She did manage to call my bro for a couple min this week so we’d know she got there, and that the torrential raining had made it almost impossible for her to get scuba certified- the main reason for going.
I actually had a dream the other night that was kinda like a roadtrip mystery, ending with me accosting some blond lady just before I woke up, asking her ‘Where is my mother’. awww. poor subconscious. hehe
So, started my new gig today, after a relaxing morning off. So far I really like the place and people. I hit it off with my supervisor. Wish I could have gotten those silly css drop downs to work this afternoon though.
My new boss told me about at time he got stuck in an elevator! he ended up having to email for help from a open wireless connection. hee
It happened really really quick. I went into Robert Half Technologies yesterday morning for some paperwork, a short interview and some tests on HTML/PHP/ASP. My scores were mostly above average (verses all the other people who have taken the same tests) Before I could even be walked to the elevator, someone came by and said they had just submitted me for a job! By the afternoon it had all been decided
Seems like I’ll be starting a long term web contract job midweek!!!
I’ve never done pure consultant work, but it just may suit this time in my life.
They still have to check my references, but that should go fine. Then a couple days finishing up the clerical temp job, and woo!
woo!
/tiny tim voice ‘God Bless us every one’
Man, what a great Christmas gift!
woo!
I’m at a coffee shop I used to work above, oh, 5 years ago. Eating a tuna sandwich and carrot chipotle soup. I’ve decided I’m going to work more on my portfolio tonight. I plan on adding a version of my resume, and playing around with some ajax and perhaps flash + database stuff.
What exactly do I need to learn to be indispensable to people?
Art night this week was fantastic. We made it out to Pasqual’s and enjoyed some pre-art margaritas. Then we had a fantastic time, arting, laughing, listening to music, watching Eli walk!! (his second day of walking!!) I love these fantastic people.
Well, I’m going to finish my sandwich now, eat my soup and drink my mocha, and see what unfolds tonight.
Be warm everyone!