Of Tearing Up and Time Consumption

14,771 Days Alive

400+ Ebooks Removed from My Kindle Collection

211 Approximate Hours Until the Start of Hanukkah 2025

50+ Pages of Notes Taken in Today’s Training Sessions

It was my third day at my new in-office job today. Everyone is still super awesome. They are also super loud, but when I am training, I can shut the door so I can actually hear the videos I’m supposed to watch.

My trainer, referred to here as Rose, is an excellent trainer. Patient, she explains things well, and she goes slowly when it comes to my hand writing things down for later review. I typed up a lot of notes from both yesterday and today. It ended up being more than 50 pages long; and that’s with it being mostly 10 point font, single spaced, narrow margin on the paper, and only two or three pages of that was the linked table of contents.

I am still under pain, phenomenal amount of stress. I know things will get better. I know the holidays are going to be rough for me. The fact that I will only have one eight hour shift for pretty much the entirety of Christmas week is worrisome to me.

There is definitely a downside, one of the major downsides, to being part-time and/or a 1099 subcontractor. You don’t get paid days off, you don’t get sick time, you don’t get Worker’s Comp., and you don’t get holiday pay. But, at least I can hope that things will get better with a slightly larger, more regular, income resource.

Anyway, I still have not managed to get any reading or crocheting done this evening. In my defense, we did have a small, now resolved, car emergency. Again, things will get better. I have faith. All I can do is just keep swimming.

Take your meds, folks.