September 2022: And then I got COVID
Oct. 9th, 2022 09:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
geowenchWell, after 2.5 years and FOUR jabs, I got Covid. For my birthday.
The Mad Scientist has resumed quite a bit of travel this summer and a few days after coming back from Belgium in September, he started feeling sick and tested positive. I thought I might actually avoid it because it took nearly a week before I came down with it. But eventually I did. Damn it. We both had flu-like symptoms and were down and out for about 4 days and then he needed maybe 10 days to get back to normal and is totally fine now. I'm exactly 3 weeks out from getting it and am mostly recovered. Back to working full time, but still coughing and still pretty fatigued. In Covid terms we got off fairly lightly. In pre-Covid terms, we were actually fairly sick and quite miserable for a good week, though never in any danger of needing hospitalization. I was feeling fairly smug about being in the minority of people to have not gotten it, but you know what they say about pride.
So. It's been 5 months since my last confession, I mean post, and I think I'm going to try and post monthly again. Let's see if I can even remember what's happened since I last posted in my April that I had rage quite my job.
May: 2 week solo road trip to CA was FANTASTIC. I wish I had stayed longer, but I came back before memorial day.
June: I got over my "oh it's so hard not to work" nonsense pretty damn quickly and spent June relaxing and enjoying myself. I went swimming a few times. I slept a lot. I spent a LOT of time in the hammock, reading. I did not get much of anything productive done. I just felt like I NEEDED that month to rest and recover, and so I did, and it was splendid.
July: More of what happened in June plus I had friends visiting for two weeks, which was fun but TIRING.
August: I started a new job on the 10th and spent the rest of the month completely bewildered. I'm working as a tech writer for an alternative energy company. I'm in the Information Systems (software) department and am supposed to be documenting their software systems. It's completely remote, and they're paying me literally twice what I was making at my previous position. Plus they've sent me a Dell lap top, docking station, and 24" screen and then were like ooops, we were supposed to send you a MacBook Pro and a different docking station, so they sent those, but didn't ask for the original back, so now I've got 2 brand new laptops. I suppose I should ask if they want the Dell back ... but I actually use both of them, so I'm kind of waiting to see if anybody notices/remembers.
New job: They have a very incomplete onboarding process, plus my boss is totally hands off (and a tech/computer guy, not a writer), so I spent the first two month having no idea WTF I was supposed actually be doing. It was pretty frustrating and anxiety inducing, and then I got COVID and had to take some time off when I was still brand new. But I feel like I'm finally starting to get a tiny bit of a grip on what I'm supposed to be doing. At least I hope I am.
October plan: Get over Covid and ease back into my physical fitness routines. Get my office/craft room to be functional again and not look like a hoarder's paradise. Find time to actually do some sewing.
The Mad Scientist has resumed quite a bit of travel this summer and a few days after coming back from Belgium in September, he started feeling sick and tested positive. I thought I might actually avoid it because it took nearly a week before I came down with it. But eventually I did. Damn it. We both had flu-like symptoms and were down and out for about 4 days and then he needed maybe 10 days to get back to normal and is totally fine now. I'm exactly 3 weeks out from getting it and am mostly recovered. Back to working full time, but still coughing and still pretty fatigued. In Covid terms we got off fairly lightly. In pre-Covid terms, we were actually fairly sick and quite miserable for a good week, though never in any danger of needing hospitalization. I was feeling fairly smug about being in the minority of people to have not gotten it, but you know what they say about pride.
So. It's been 5 months since my last confession, I mean post, and I think I'm going to try and post monthly again. Let's see if I can even remember what's happened since I last posted in my April that I had rage quite my job.
May: 2 week solo road trip to CA was FANTASTIC. I wish I had stayed longer, but I came back before memorial day.
June: I got over my "oh it's so hard not to work" nonsense pretty damn quickly and spent June relaxing and enjoying myself. I went swimming a few times. I slept a lot. I spent a LOT of time in the hammock, reading. I did not get much of anything productive done. I just felt like I NEEDED that month to rest and recover, and so I did, and it was splendid.
July: More of what happened in June plus I had friends visiting for two weeks, which was fun but TIRING.
August: I started a new job on the 10th and spent the rest of the month completely bewildered. I'm working as a tech writer for an alternative energy company. I'm in the Information Systems (software) department and am supposed to be documenting their software systems. It's completely remote, and they're paying me literally twice what I was making at my previous position. Plus they've sent me a Dell lap top, docking station, and 24" screen and then were like ooops, we were supposed to send you a MacBook Pro and a different docking station, so they sent those, but didn't ask for the original back, so now I've got 2 brand new laptops. I suppose I should ask if they want the Dell back ... but I actually use both of them, so I'm kind of waiting to see if anybody notices/remembers.
New job: They have a very incomplete onboarding process, plus my boss is totally hands off (and a tech/computer guy, not a writer), so I spent the first two month having no idea WTF I was supposed actually be doing. It was pretty frustrating and anxiety inducing, and then I got COVID and had to take some time off when I was still brand new. But I feel like I'm finally starting to get a tiny bit of a grip on what I'm supposed to be doing. At least I hope I am.
October plan: Get over Covid and ease back into my physical fitness routines. Get my office/craft room to be functional again and not look like a hoarder's paradise. Find time to actually do some sewing.
