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Mar. 5th, 2026 02:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jakebe Coming back to this after a long time away. I'm hoping I can find time to do this and slowly, steadily, get my head back in working order.
It hasn't been too bad, come to think of it. I'm working as a Customer Service Rep for a local waste-management company, coming up on 3 months of employment now. It's not a bad position -- it's easier than what I had been doing and I get paid more, so that's all gravy. I do have to commute to an office nearby, which isn't the worst thing either.
I hadn't realized how much I needed to be out and about with other people to feel LIKE a person. Of course I'd much rather be working from home and enjoying all of the free time that would give me -- but having to look at myself in a mirror every day, make sure I'm presentable to the world, prepping to leave my safe home for the wild world outside, re-learning how to interact with people on a daily basis...it's all stuff I really needed to be doing because otherwise I would be shrinking back into myself and totally fine doing so.
The commute isn't so bad, either. I work from 8 - 5 with an hour for lunch; I leave home around 7:20 AM and come back a little before 6 PM most days. It's a couple of hours "lost" to the commute, but it's also not really lost time. It took me a little while to remember that you can fill your commute with decent activities too, like listening to a podcast, audiobook, or calling up the people you haven't talked to on the phone in forever.
The job itself is...an adjustment. We split time evenly between actual customer service (mostly by phone with a little email) and operations stuff -- data entry, generating reports, refining processes. Honestly it's kind of perfect; the customer service skills are coming back online slowly but steadily, and I think my time as a QC analyst has sharpened my operations 'cadence' so that I can sharpen up a few things now that I know what I'm doing.
The commute means I see Husboo and Ratty a lot less, which is a bummer. It also means I have a lot less time for house upkeep, which sucks. Thankfully, Husboo has been picking up a lot of the slack and I'm really grateful to him for it.
Tonight, he'll be going on Date Night with the Yeen, leaving Ratty and I to our own devices. I definitely want to spend part of the evening just hanging with him -- we haven't been able to really connect in a couple of weeks, it feels like. But also, at some point, I'll need to sit down and bang out the plot for tomorrow's Unlicensed D&D game.
The game has been pretty decent overall since coming back in 2026. I've been happy with the sessions even if they haven't quite gone down the way I anticipated. I mean, isn't that the way it usually goes down?
Busy weekend with Husboo's baseball scrimmage, our softball clinic, and a trip to an Ethiopian restaurant on the books. It IS a good thing I'm getting paid tomorrow, but I'm also dedicated to spending as little as possible whenever I can help it. It's time to start building back my savings and paying down my debt.
It hasn't been too bad, come to think of it. I'm working as a Customer Service Rep for a local waste-management company, coming up on 3 months of employment now. It's not a bad position -- it's easier than what I had been doing and I get paid more, so that's all gravy. I do have to commute to an office nearby, which isn't the worst thing either.
I hadn't realized how much I needed to be out and about with other people to feel LIKE a person. Of course I'd much rather be working from home and enjoying all of the free time that would give me -- but having to look at myself in a mirror every day, make sure I'm presentable to the world, prepping to leave my safe home for the wild world outside, re-learning how to interact with people on a daily basis...it's all stuff I really needed to be doing because otherwise I would be shrinking back into myself and totally fine doing so.
The commute isn't so bad, either. I work from 8 - 5 with an hour for lunch; I leave home around 7:20 AM and come back a little before 6 PM most days. It's a couple of hours "lost" to the commute, but it's also not really lost time. It took me a little while to remember that you can fill your commute with decent activities too, like listening to a podcast, audiobook, or calling up the people you haven't talked to on the phone in forever.
The job itself is...an adjustment. We split time evenly between actual customer service (mostly by phone with a little email) and operations stuff -- data entry, generating reports, refining processes. Honestly it's kind of perfect; the customer service skills are coming back online slowly but steadily, and I think my time as a QC analyst has sharpened my operations 'cadence' so that I can sharpen up a few things now that I know what I'm doing.
The commute means I see Husboo and Ratty a lot less, which is a bummer. It also means I have a lot less time for house upkeep, which sucks. Thankfully, Husboo has been picking up a lot of the slack and I'm really grateful to him for it.
Tonight, he'll be going on Date Night with the Yeen, leaving Ratty and I to our own devices. I definitely want to spend part of the evening just hanging with him -- we haven't been able to really connect in a couple of weeks, it feels like. But also, at some point, I'll need to sit down and bang out the plot for tomorrow's Unlicensed D&D game.
The game has been pretty decent overall since coming back in 2026. I've been happy with the sessions even if they haven't quite gone down the way I anticipated. I mean, isn't that the way it usually goes down?
Busy weekend with Husboo's baseball scrimmage, our softball clinic, and a trip to an Ethiopian restaurant on the books. It IS a good thing I'm getting paid tomorrow, but I'm also dedicated to spending as little as possible whenever I can help it. It's time to start building back my savings and paying down my debt.
