Happy Sock Day!

I developed a headache when I went to bed and couldn’t sleep. I got up and did some relaxing exercises until it eased enough for me to sleep. I overslept a little and got up only twenty to six, but still left on time to take the main road.

It’s actually quite cold today, and I didn’t check before getting dressed, so I’m somewhat cold myself. The headache returned until I got some powder. And then my socks arrived! I was quite surprised, because when I checked on the order last night, it was still ‘processing’. Yay! Happy sock day! Funny thing: when I tried to determine whether the delivery was actually the socks I had ordered, the Reference at the top started with FFT – the German contractor I’ve worked for on sites these past eight years is FFT (Flexible Förderungs Technik) – yet this stands for Franz Falke Textilien.

Today is also a colleague’s birthday, and I discovered that it’s the custom here to get everyone together to sing ‘Happy birthday’. For every single birthday! And then there’s cake – arranged by the company. I just checked, my birthday falls on a Monday – I think I’ll put in a day’s leave!

Last night as I was having a smoke outside, it suddenly struck me that from here on, I no longer have any deadlines! My life is now quite without pressure or stress, there’s nothing pushing me anymore! Until now, it’s always been ‘do, while you have the chance’ or ‘now, that I have the time’ – a lot of which was not really real, but just some sort of habit. I don’t have a deadline to sort through boxes anymore, since I’m not moving again – at least, not like in the past. I don’t have to go to places, while I’m in the area – I’m here to stay, now. And I don’t have to unpack to a deadline, either. I can clean when I feel like it, bake or play or garden when I feel like it – it’s all about me and my choices now.

So far, I’m quite happy with my new job and I can see a future for myself here – barring personality issues, which I hope to avoid. If only I can continue to keep my big mouth shut! Ha ha! There is no pressure at work, either, since I can easily exceed expectations – since the expectations are not based on professional standards.

I’m beginning to get a handle on how things have been done so far and I know I can fill loads and loads of gaps. And I will enjoy it, since I’m actually back in a field of work I really love. Don’t get me wrong – I had the best time of my life as Site Secretary! I learned by the bucket-load and was able to apply a lot of my skills – but this is my first love. I’m an Industrial Engineer again – okay, so I’m called Production Manager, but I’m using my skills to their full potential and that’s where job satisfaction comes from.

I have heard several accounts regarding the personality issues I can expect – quite worrying, to be honest. I don’t know how I’ll react if something like that happens to me. Especially if it comes out of the blue! For now, though, I seem to be the ‘Golden Boy’ – everything I do receives almost applause; which I find quite freaky, to be honest. Let’s see how things continue from here on – after all, it’s only been a week.

When I got home, I was reminded of Mewly’s latest escapade: he managed to not only pull down the curtains in the lounge, but the rod as well! One side has come off the wall – that’s so typical Mewthos! I’ll have to see about that this weekend …

This weekend I really must empty the litter boxes and fill them with completely fresh sand. It’s getting a bit iffy, I could smell it when I came in. Not too strong, yet – I have been scooping it daily, adding fresh sand and bicarb – but it’s time to wash and start fresh. Shame, mippies have had nothing else to use for two weeks now. Lady Jane, once again, used it right after I scooped it today. I scooped that right away as well.

I keep thinking how I should go about letting the mippies out next weekend – I don’t have an issue with them being out during the day, while I’m home; I am, however, absolutely terrified of letting them out while I’m at work … it’s getting dark earlier now, and soon I’ll be coming home after dark. What if those trusting darlings don’t get out of the way of the car, when I come home? It’s the thought of accidentally running over one of my darlings which has me utterly terrified!

Enough of such morbid thoughts!

On the other side of that coin is my pleasure in watching my darling mippies play happily in the garden – and come to greet me, when I come home from work. As they do now, ha ha, Lady Jane watches me through the kitchen window as I close the gate and walk to the front door.