Icons, how I've missed you
Jan. 13th, 2017 07:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jebbypalTrufax for why Dreamwidth will always beat TUMBLR in my old age opinion: the ability to change icons with every post. :) Not posting regularly means its been way too long since I've seen some of these.
I should also change my default icon but then most of my circle won't recognize me since my default icon has been the same for the past .... 5 years? I don't even know.
Welcome to new people joining my circle:) [new people. on DW!! so exciting.] I did my intro post a few days ago and then I keep side-eyeing it because i realize that it's a bit different than what I'd have written in the past.
This week has been interesting to say the least. Started off with a REALLY bad workout on Sunday in which my lower body kept getting charlie horses with every exercise and my lungs were upset. Cue 2 hours later when I could stop coughing every time I layed flat and I realized I'd caught the office crud
Our agency got new managing directors on Monday, which was kinda overdue because our old ones were odd and disengaged in a way I've never really seen. Then for the past 3 days I've had to be at work at 8 am for meetings which is freaking my boss out (I'm not a morning person at all. A good measure of whether I'll gel at a new job is whether they insist on me actually being at work at 9 on the dot or if its okay that most days I'm there by 10 as long as I get my 8+ hours a day in. Of course, places I gel also quickly realize they really don't want me to come to work early on a regular basis because it means I get bitchy.)
Also all week the bathrooms and water in our office have been out because of weird plumbing things...fortunately not to the entire building just our suite. So i'm thoroughly sick of everyone complaining about walking down the hall. And the fact that we have 80+ women using the same 3 toilets. Sheesh.
Add to that Wednesday needing to stay at work late, and then having the construction on the 1st Fl (our office has been undergoing a remodel for the past 8 mos) decide that was a perfect time to start cutting CEMENT. Which the noise was bad enough. Add to that the cloud of concrete dust that slowly drifted into our lobby and then started dispersing through the office. Had a scarf over my mouth the whole time, but given how much my lungs LOVE to get irritated and stay irritated for a long time over recent years, I was not happy. Fortunately I got what I needed to do with art done and got to head out after about an hour or so. Still ughh.
Fortunately workout went well today so I'm 1) healthy again, 2) ecstatic that my lungs didn't do their post viral thing of taking months to stop being super reactive, and 3) glad I apparently coughed up all the cement dust yesterday.
Oh, and US TV is coming back on after the winter holiday. I think I've finally admitted that I can't take any more of the Chicago Franchise. Med is too unrealistic, even for TV medical show. PD I've had issues with since the beginning since I think it's incredibly tone deaf that the entire premise is a unit that does whatever it has to to close a case in light of all the scandals the real Chicago department has been going through for torture and unlawful detention the past 3 years. And Fire has finally gotten too soapy. And way too predictable.
But Lethal Weapon is back and I still go through an entire episode with an idiotic grin on my face. During the holiday TV drought I actually watched MacGyver and well, it got better. Granted, it couldn't have gotten worse than the first couple. And as long as I tell myself to divorce it from the whole pacifistic ethos of the original flavor, I can get through it. Now that they've added Bozer to the team it's a bit more light hearted too.
Same thing happened with Shooter. Surprisingly I actually like it. And it is rather well acted since it's pretty much every character actor you've ever seen do long guest stints on any show.
I need to catch up on Elementary. And try to poke at Madam Secretary again. I've loved every season of that show but in the current political climate it makes me heartsick to seen sanity, compassion, and logic presented in the context of government. So heartsick.
1)play more mass effect 3 (i've been doing a replay of the whole franchise for the last 3 mos).
2) Write fanfic to be prepped for More Joy day!! (don't forget to give me prompts if you want
3) cook. i've eaten all the things. also do my dishes
4) clean house so i can call landlord about the dishwasher again.
5) box up all the belated christmas gifts I need to mail out because i am a procrastinator first class.
6) go clothes shopping. I really need to buy new bras...
I should also change my default icon but then most of my circle won't recognize me since my default icon has been the same for the past .... 5 years? I don't even know.
Welcome to new people joining my circle:) [new people. on DW!! so exciting.] I did my intro post a few days ago and then I keep side-eyeing it because i realize that it's a bit different than what I'd have written in the past.
This week has been interesting to say the least. Started off with a REALLY bad workout on Sunday in which my lower body kept getting charlie horses with every exercise and my lungs were upset. Cue 2 hours later when I could stop coughing every time I layed flat and I realized I'd caught the office crud
Our agency got new managing directors on Monday, which was kinda overdue because our old ones were odd and disengaged in a way I've never really seen. Then for the past 3 days I've had to be at work at 8 am for meetings which is freaking my boss out (I'm not a morning person at all. A good measure of whether I'll gel at a new job is whether they insist on me actually being at work at 9 on the dot or if its okay that most days I'm there by 10 as long as I get my 8+ hours a day in. Of course, places I gel also quickly realize they really don't want me to come to work early on a regular basis because it means I get bitchy.)
Also all week the bathrooms and water in our office have been out because of weird plumbing things...fortunately not to the entire building just our suite. So i'm thoroughly sick of everyone complaining about walking down the hall. And the fact that we have 80+ women using the same 3 toilets. Sheesh.
Add to that Wednesday needing to stay at work late, and then having the construction on the 1st Fl (our office has been undergoing a remodel for the past 8 mos) decide that was a perfect time to start cutting CEMENT. Which the noise was bad enough. Add to that the cloud of concrete dust that slowly drifted into our lobby and then started dispersing through the office. Had a scarf over my mouth the whole time, but given how much my lungs LOVE to get irritated and stay irritated for a long time over recent years, I was not happy. Fortunately I got what I needed to do with art done and got to head out after about an hour or so. Still ughh.
Fortunately workout went well today so I'm 1) healthy again, 2) ecstatic that my lungs didn't do their post viral thing of taking months to stop being super reactive, and 3) glad I apparently coughed up all the cement dust yesterday.
Oh, and US TV is coming back on after the winter holiday. I think I've finally admitted that I can't take any more of the Chicago Franchise. Med is too unrealistic, even for TV medical show. PD I've had issues with since the beginning since I think it's incredibly tone deaf that the entire premise is a unit that does whatever it has to to close a case in light of all the scandals the real Chicago department has been going through for torture and unlawful detention the past 3 years. And Fire has finally gotten too soapy. And way too predictable.
But Lethal Weapon is back and I still go through an entire episode with an idiotic grin on my face. During the holiday TV drought I actually watched MacGyver and well, it got better. Granted, it couldn't have gotten worse than the first couple. And as long as I tell myself to divorce it from the whole pacifistic ethos of the original flavor, I can get through it. Now that they've added Bozer to the team it's a bit more light hearted too.
Same thing happened with Shooter. Surprisingly I actually like it. And it is rather well acted since it's pretty much every character actor you've ever seen do long guest stints on any show.
I need to catch up on Elementary. And try to poke at Madam Secretary again. I've loved every season of that show but in the current political climate it makes me heartsick to seen sanity, compassion, and logic presented in the context of government. So heartsick.
1)play more mass effect 3 (i've been doing a replay of the whole franchise for the last 3 mos).
2) Write fanfic to be prepped for More Joy day!! (don't forget to give me prompts if you want
3) cook. i've eaten all the things. also do my dishes
4) clean house so i can call landlord about the dishwasher again.
5) box up all the belated christmas gifts I need to mail out because i am a procrastinator first class.
6) go clothes shopping. I really need to buy new bras...
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Date: 2017-01-13 08:57 pm (UTC)My husband has quit watching Madam Secretary for the same reason as you. He was doing okay until Trump was actually elected. I'm just a couple of episodes behind and I'm back to loving it again.
Wearing bras that fit is a joy like no other. It will be worth it.
More Joy Day. On Inauguration Day. More power to you and to everyone who is participating.
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Date: 2017-01-15 02:55 pm (UTC)Yes, bras that fit are wonderful. I'm also just in that weird place of not quite figuring out what I need to do with clothes to make them fit right. My workouts have filled out the muscle in my back and chest such that things aren't fitting quite right and yet my cup size hasn't increased and bleh. Life would be easier if you could just move the fat to less annoying places for clothing choices like you can when designing charcters on video games.