thrihyrne

I'd posted about this in other social media, but one of the completely unexpected perks about moving into my new position in Resolutions & Rebookings is that our training was scheduled for the shockingly traditional 8-5, Monday-Friday. That means that for the first time since my original training at the end of July and early August, I have 2 days together off, and they are days I can share with

evannichols!! Weekends! OMGYAY! At least a few of them, and then shortly thereafter I'll have a new schedule. I have no idea if it will resemble my prior one or not, and since my new team lead (the 3^rd thus far in my 7-month tenure) was in a week-long Team Leads meeting at HQ, I haven't even begun to get to know him yet. No constant but change, as they say.

It was a productive but leisurely, very social yet cocoon-y weekend. A fulfilling amalgam of activity and lounging. I was uncommonly social in that my friend Jen from Eugene came over for lunch on Friday, then we went on a lovely walk with

grrlpup and

sanguinity, and then over to Evan's sister's place yesterday to hang out with them. Evan and I had a very rare lunch out, trying out an Indian restaurant buffet close by (yummy!) and doing the obligatory Portland thing of going outside on a getting-warm, sunny spring day. I even wore spring clothes! ( Exhibit A below the cut )

I tried calling a few folks and had really hoped to Skype with my stepdad and at least one of my stepsisters while he was up in NYC, but despite several texts back and forth, it didn't happen. Last week during my usual Wednesday off I Skyped with my mom and sister (my mom was visiting her out in Salt Lake City) which was especially poignant after my recent wonderful trip to Harrisonburg. I find myself in tears not infrequently after being on the phone with my dad or mom; my relationships with both of them are so open and easy now, and that has not been the case for much of my adult life. I am incredibly grateful for that.

And I'm up and showered and solo earlier than usual today as Evan went into work an hour earlier than the norm. I must have slept very well as I woke up with the alarm and wasn't foggy or tired at all. Woo hoo!! That's a welcome way to start my week!

I'll write more about my new promotion in the coming days. ♥

Crossposts: http://thrihyrne.livejournal.com/543348.html

There are so many ways in which I feel more and more grounded these days— in recent days, it's because I came back from Harrisonburg with pretty much all of my belongings. The rug and bin that we shipped arrived yesterday, so it's all here now. In going through it, I came across two lovely and talisman-filled care packages from

rainwish that hadn't initially made their way here. Now my altar is truly gorgeous, with fabric, more stones, a Lego Gimli (not from Rainwish, but he is my symbol of strength), a polished circle of stone I'd held on to from my college roommate (perhaps even given as a birthday gift while still in school), and a paper crane from a newer friend,

ohthatjocelyn. There's also a colorful cornucopia Thevina/Kristi-centric collage created by

emansil_12 on the shelf nearby. I'll take another picture soon. It fills me with such joy to glance over at it, much less spend quiet time there in meditation, or just sitting quietly with my morning coffee, breathing in openness and breathing out anxiety, holding my loved ones in light.

And in other news: The cabled hoodie I'd knitted that never fit properly on me turns out to fit

grrlpup like a glove! I'm thrilled that it's with her. There's still enough yarn left (or so I hope, lol) that I'm going to make this vest for myself:

The back is equally gorgeous.

Today is my first official day of training as a promoted specialist in Resolutions. This really wasn't the area I'd planned to go to in my time at Airbnb, but the need was there and I believe that once I learn more of the ins and outs of basic protocol, I'll find a very happy home as a 'Resolutionary.' They deal very much in the grey area of disputes and people who are generally unhappy for a variety of reasons. While I do very much enjoy having policies and standards to use as the girders of responding to our users, I think I'll find it quite empowering now to be able to have the tools to grant refunds, take losses, educate and warn (when necessary) with a more authoritative voice so improve our ever-expanding community of users. So… let the training begin!

Crossposts: http://thrihyrne.livejournal.com/543062.html

❇ Two days off in a row. I'd agreed to switch shifts weeks ago and had an incredibly rare Fri-Sat combo off.
❇ Even though we were supposed to have

sanguinity and

grrlpup over for dinner and a movie last night,

evannichols wasn't feeling up to snuff and we've rescheduled for tonight. I'm grateful not only that their schedules weren't so packed that we had to reschedule for next month, but also that we'll hopefully get to have this dinner party at all. I've not hosted a dinner party literally in years.
❇ I went out jogging yesterday! Our weather has not encouraged mid-day activities, but during this upcoming week I'm hoping to do this wee jog (it's a bit over a mile, but not flat like my running over at my prior house) every day.

We'll see. I could get lucky!
❇ Evan had a very rare work from home day yesterday, so in addition to my jog, he and I took a leisurely walk at the nearby park and chatted. His head was a bit fuzzy and he wasn't fully up to speed, but it was our first walk together in our new neighborhood.
❇ Knitting. I'm a few inches away from finishing the hood to my gorgeous rust heathered zip front cardigan. But I'm distinctly lacking in the zipper itself. Hmmmm. But I also knitted Evan a wee giftie, a mini sweater ornament to hang on our tree. Very fun.

And now, to drink coffee and plan our leisurely day; I'll do some of the cooking I didn't do yesterday in anticipation of our rescheduled dinner, and remain in this state of amazementgratitudedelight that I have every day. I'll fully admit that a full 48 hours away from my job is helping greatly in facilitating this. ;) That said, I had rather a "Huh?" moment earlier this week when I found out I'd received a 'spot bonus' (in online giftcard form, but I rallied fairly quickly considering it *wasn't* cash) for my hard work. Considering that twice already in my not-yet-5-month-tenure with them I'd been told I might be let go, this was a welcome change.

Oh, and Happy Solstice!!

Not only did I get to leave at 2:30 because all of the sales agents left early, but when I got in this morning I found a holiday card at my desk with a fun, yarn-centric $2 Oregon lottery ticket in it of all things. The card wasn't from my supervisor, as I'd first supposed, but someone else whose title I'm not at all certain of, but who has been quite friendly. (I should note that it appears that she gave all of us in the CSR department these cards, with the lottery tickets, but it doesn't make the gesture less appreciated.) It was the inside that really made me feel so positive about my decision to work there. She wrote: I am so glad you decided to join the VelaPoint team. We love having you here. Merry Christmas. :D Not only that, but she spelled my name correctly! This is no small feat considering that my name everywhere built into the lists is as my legal name, Kristen, and there are many ways to spell Kristi.

So now I'm settling in to watch part 3 of a fabulous BBC documentary about the history of Beijing and then other stuff I've downloaded, and knitting. I sense a lot of my next few days will resemble that, lol.

This is how I want to feel every morning: refreshed after an actual full night's sleep, dressed in clothes that I like and going to a job that I both enjoy and where I'm appreciated. Oh! And I get to start working 30 hours a week at the poetry center as of next week. :D :D

Happy Tuesday to you all. ♥

Current Mood: content

Life is good. Last week was phenomenal, and as of this week I had a follow up meeting with the Executive Director of this community health center and they're going to hire me on as a consultant to do at least the first phase of my proposal to help them with their database or lack thereof and a fee of $x0 an hour. To be paid much closer to what I feel I'm worth per hour in a work environment has really done amazing things for my psyche. I feel so fucking competent, pardon my language. My original fic writing is going well, knitting is great, the Furious Flower director has a new project and wants me to stay here forever. Even the bill I got yesterday from my last hospital stint was taken care of because I had 100% financial assistance at the time, so they cleared out the remaining balance.

In the past, so much good stuff all at once usually meant that a rather traumatizing crash and burn occurred shortly thereafter. However, I don't see that happening this time. Maybe it's the Abilify, maybe being with my parents, maybe the willingness to not go to the place where I think the gods are looking down on me and are going to throw something really terrible my way as the payment for these positive things. I'm trying not to go there in my head, at any rate. Instead I think I've become a bit oddly superstitious. I mentioned that I'd felt I'd gotten in touch with some Guardians who had kept me from serious harm during my scary few days in February, and I'd come up with a gesture to not really invoke them, but much as making the symbol of the cross (or other symbols) is an act of invocation, or protection, or something, the gesture I have is for them. Perhaps it's because I'm so exceedingly grateful that so many things are going well, but I do make that symbol a couple of times a day. Maybe that's not so weird. It's a ritual, if a tee-tiny one.

So, off to beta and then walk the dog and later is Pilates with my mom and then knitting and watching Project Catwalk. Heh. I found the U.K. clone of Project Runway, woo hoo!!

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The recent weekend-- an entire non-working weekend!

Of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax-- Of cabbages--and kings--

The rare and simple joys

Another lovely work moment

Coffee at my side...

Breaking from a potentially disastrous thought pattern

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