Prudie Day

ei34 · October 2024

How's everyone? Happy almost end of the week!

ei34 · October 2024

I'm getting my stitches out later today, thankfully (I hate wound care). Otherwise fairly SSDD.

levioosa · October 2024

I'm hitting a new level of burnout at work. They've given me a 30% increase in patients seen daily and I'm furious and exhausted.

Otherwise, SSDD. Glad I took tomorrow off because I need it. We might try to go out this weekend. I hope it's fun. I've been in a very not fun mood.

Glad to hear the stitches are coming out!

CharmedPam · October 2024

Happy Friday to you then @levioosa!

I am blessed! Remember that wedding I rsvp’s to? Well, I was complaining to a friend that it’ll be over 100 in ubers to get there since I don’t drive into the city. She said “oh, where is it? I’m heading into the city Saturday”. She mapquested it, and she’s taking me!!!! Saving me tons! Woohoo! I love my friends.
I also texted my friend on Tuesday (her niece is the bride) to ask what her plans were for the day. It’s Thursday and no response back. She doesn’t want to drive with me, so I get it, but tell me that.

Casadena · October 2024

Work crazy is almost done for the week thankfully. Couple things to prep for a meeting this afternoon and then a couple things to prep for my team since i'm out next week.

N screamed basically from the time he woke up to the time we left this morning, so that was obviously a very relaxing start to our day *eye roll*. Was happy at school though, so i guess that's a win. H is gone one more night and i'm looking forward to a glass of wine and no bedtime duty tomorrow night

Making my packing lists tonight for Disney. We decided on a loose plan for which parks which days, built in one mostly rest day and decided to mostly wing it for the details. No idea what the kids will be into, so just going to follow their lead. Excited to get away for a bit and can't wait to see the little dudes on an airplane for the first time - fingers crossed it goes well!

mrsconn23 · October 2024

HI!!!!

OMG I just beast-moded my resume after my chat with the outplacement coach earlier this week. I had the bones, but she helped me tremendously in restructuring it. I'm nervously excited for her feedback. I've been banking jobs left and right on LinkedIn, so I think I'm about ready to get to applying. Send purple vibes and job dust this way.

Things have been cuh-razy around here. BIL and SIL *finally* have a house as of last night. I know I've mentioned the kiddo's ex causing legal troubles outside of paternity (still not settled yet), but that's all been resolved and the kiddo WON in both instances. Paternity is the next hurdle.

Sending ((hugs)) all around to those that need it. I've been lurking, but haven't had time to jump in. I miss y'all.

I'll collect up some Prudies and get to posting. MWAH!

VarunaTT · October 2024

I received my friend's obituary last night. It made it feel surreal again. A whole entire fiercely lived life, just pared down to a few paragraphs. There are SO.MANY comments already. Laura was just one of those people who had so many friends and made you feel special being her friend. I'm really struggling today again. I'm hoping this little trip this weekend will bring me some joy.

I'm going to bake some cookies tonight to take with us. They're a recipe from a World of Warcraft cookbook, which just makes me laugh. I am able to walk to a library branch from my apartment. This is a small library, MADE for browsing. There aren't a lot of books there and all of the books are front facing lining the walls, with a huge magazine section. But man, whoever curates their selections is great and they make the best tables of books. I had to walk past a table filled with cookbooks from factional worlds. I usually only pick up holds there and refuse to browse b/c I always come home with an armload I'll never get through. But I couldn't walk past the cookbooks and came home with 3, Avatar, WoW, and LoTR. The Avatar one was really well made, fun, and definitely founded in the universe with character "interviews", divided into the 4 Nations, and even a big section for cabbage guy, but I didn't cook anything out of it. The WoW one is also really well made and fun, a bit more stiff, but if you don't know the universe, it's still fun. The LoTR one is well made but unless you know the books already, it's kind of boring and doesn't really connect into the universe of it all.

Otherwise, SSDD.

mrsconn23 · October 2024

Prudie is a bit of a bonanza since I've been MIA the last couple of weeks. LOL Enjoy!!

short+sassy · October 2024

@ei34, Congrats on getting the stitches out. I've only had stitches once for an injury on my calf. The stitches were what caused pain and discomfort until they were taken out, not the injury.

@CharmedPam, glad you found a ride to the city.

@Casadena, That should be such an amazing trip! I hope you all have a great time. Disney World is already exciting for kids. But then also their first plane ride! Very cool.

I got some bad news at work. I'd heard rumors about a big project that is starting next year and that it would be back to doing it "in house". It made me start to second guess if I should be looking for another job in Cincinnati. Because back to my old refrain. If there is a ton of steel work and I'm the only one that can competently do it, then surely they will let me WFH when I move.

But I got confirmation today that the fabricating for this project...and probably any large projects going forward...is going to be done by a third party (sigh). That's a 90-95% reduction of the steel work I do for projects like that. Though I would do everything I usually do for smaller projects.

As soon as I wrap up what's left on the only large project that is remaining, I'm going to hit up my company's procurement department and the client's procurement department. To offer up my help, now that I have more time available. Emphasis on CLIENT. A lot of their office employees WFH and I know it's possible to work in any state.

I haven't worked much for him, but the client's Procurement manager for the site I support seems impressed by me. It would be pretty sweet if they were looking to hire a direct person anyway, that's outside of my employer's contract with them. But I know it can get touchy to poach your contractor's employees or vice versa, so I'm not sure how to approach that.

Something to think about and research. I did go to the client's job board and found one remote position whose qualifications are a good, but not a great, match for my skills/experience. Supports a totally different site and wouldn't have anything to do with my employer. But then I wouldn't professionally know anyone either to give me a nod. Hopefully just name dropping their own company on my resume would get me a second look, lol.

short+sassy · October 2024

@mrsconn23, good luck with your job search! I'm glad the outplacement coach was able to help you. Congrats to the kiddo! Congrats to the BIL/SIL's family!

Good stuff going on in the @mrsconn23 house.

CharmedPam · October 2024

Oh no @short+sassy! I know one of your high points of moving was making NOLA money in Ohio, where some things are cheaper.

@Casadena it’s gonna be great. A good memory I have is my sister taking my little little nieces on their first trip to see us in a plane. My niece had one of those kids suitcases with hello kitty on it (you know the one where it holds two items lol). Well, she was super excited to tote that around the airport - until she wasn’t. My fave picture of the trip is of daddy toting the hello kitty luggage while holding her hand in the airport.

Casadena · October 2024

Haha that sounds adorable @CharmedPam. We're checking our suitcases but the boys both have thos wraparound neck pillows that they are obsessed with and i'm sure will not take off the whole time

short+sassy · October 2024

CharmedPam said:

Oh no @short+sassy! I know one of your high points of moving was making NOLA money in Ohio, where some things are cheaper.
@Casadena it’s gonna be great. A good memory I have is my sister taking my little little nieces on their first trip to see us in a plane. My niece had one of those kids suitcases with hello kitty on it (you know the one where it holds two items lol). Well, she was super excited to tote that around the airport - until she wasn’t. My fave picture of the trip is of daddy toting the hello kitty luggage while holding her hand in the airport.

Fortunately, this part isn't true. There are more and better paying jobs in Cincy. Louisiana is in the bottom 5 for average salaries, but not the worst. That would be our neighbor, MS. There's an old joke around here, "Thank goodness for Mississippi and West Virginia so we don't ALWAYS rank last for things."

It's just it would be so much nicer to stay in the job I'm comfortable in, especially since that means it would be 100% remote. Then venture out into the world of job hunting that I haven't done in 10+ years. My H and I could hang for a good while in Cincy if neither one of us had a job. But I don't like that kind of uncertainty. I want a soft place to land.

My work's attitude has always been a "tentative maybe" about me being able to WFH when I move. I feel like this is even less likely now (sigh). Ugh, I need to start looking more seriously in Cincy for work or 100% remote opportunities. But it's so hateful and I feel like I'm automatically at a disadvantage, since I don't live there yet. For the right job offer, I could be there in 2-3 weeks and leave my H behind to pack and work with our realtor. But I can't interview in person, unless they fly me out. Possible but overall, they aren't that "level" kind of jobs.

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