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todayiamadaisy) wrote2015-08-23 09:49 pm
todayiamadaisy) wrote2015-08-23 09:49 pm
Born of Love
Hello, f-list. This has been a stupidly busy couple of weeks. I've been like a mouse on a wheel. Lots of running, not getting anywhere.
Work continues. As in, it goes on, and also we are winding up the company and preparing to hand over the reins, and also we are starting a new company and preparing to pick up exactly where we left off, bigger and better than ever. We are supposed to hear late August or early September if our tender was successful.
My MBA subject this term is killing me. It's called Thinking and Decision-Making, but it should be called Reading, because that's all I'm doing. I'm a reasonably fast reader (not a speed reader, mind, just normally fast), and I can barely keep up. It's more reading than any subject since the commercial law subjects I had to do back in the day. I also had to hand in my first essay for this subject last Monday. Three thousand words on myself as a decision-maker. I wasn't happy with the final product. I would only give myself a Distinction for it, instead of the High Distinction I aim for, but I was just so over it. The weak point was the part where I was supposed to talk about organisational learning. I have a lot of thoughts about how that applies to my organisation, but I couldn't get them down properly. Anyway. It's done now.
I was supposed to have two weeks off in June, but then the tender was announced, so I cancelled that. My boss didn't exactly ask me to, but it was hinted at. Also, I wanted to be part of the tender. This thing has been out of our hands for so long, it was good to take back a bit of control. So it was my choice, and I can't complain. But I've been feeling run down, particularly over the last couple of weeks, dragging myself out of bed. I thought it was just down to needing a break, so it didn't occur to me that I might have been unwell. Not until last weekend when I found myself holed up with a tummy bug. Bleh.
So that has been the last two weeks. And now, finally, I have my two weeks leave. I think I'm going to sleep the first week. And maybe do a meme or two.
1. How long do you usually spend in the shower? Bath?
No time at all in the bath. I haven't had a bath in years. It uses too much water. Also, I don't want to sit in my own dirt. I've never understood how people can read in the bath without getting the pages wet. That's a skill I never mastered.
Showers are maybe ten minutes, tops. Shorter if I don't wash my hair, although I usually do.
2. How many bottles (shampoo, conditioner etc.) are lying around your bathtub?
On the little shelf in the shower are bottles of shampoo, shower gel and face wash.
As I don't use the bath, I have covered it with a nicely painted board to use as a seat or extra shelf. On it is a pot-bellied fig, a giant bag of kitty litter and a wind-up turtle. And, if I am being honest, some clean towels I haven't got round to folding and putting away yet.
3. What is your favourite type of shampoo? Conditioner?
I don't have one. I am fickle, and also I have always read that you're supposed to change regularly. (Is that true? Or is it one of those misguided pieces of folk wisdom?) At the moment I have an enormous bottle of Natralia Nourish Naturals Normal Hair Shampoo Grape Seed & Mandarin. It has to be an enormous bottle to fit all those words on.
I don't use conditioner. Every couple of days, I apply a squirt of Elvive Extraordinary Oil before I get in the shower, then shampoo it out. Calling it extraordinary is probably over-egging it, but it is good stuff. And extremely long-lasting: I have had my current bottle for about six months, and I'm not even half-way through it.
4. Do you always buy your shampoo and conditioner in a set (as opposed to buying different types for each)?
No, not even when I used conditioner. I didn't use them at the same rate. I finished the shampoo before I was even halfway through the conditioner. A matching set remains a distant dream. Much like having matching bra and knickers.
5. Do you prefer stationary shower heads or movable?
Every house I've ever lived in has had a stationary shower head. I have only ever thought of movable shower heads as being something specially installed for people with mobility issues. If someone has to sit on a chair in the shower, for instance, and needs the water source a bit closer. The only ones I've ever actually seen have been in hotel rooms that have both sorts, and it has never occurred to me to use the movable one. But! After reading this meme a couple of weeks ago, I had to go to a meeting in Melbourne, and my hotel room had two shower heads. So I tried the movable one and can definitively state: I don't care for it.
Also: movable or moveable? I've been looking at them for so long that neither looks like a real word any more.
Work continues. As in, it goes on, and also we are winding up the company and preparing to hand over the reins, and also we are starting a new company and preparing to pick up exactly where we left off, bigger and better than ever. We are supposed to hear late August or early September if our tender was successful.
My MBA subject this term is killing me. It's called Thinking and Decision-Making, but it should be called Reading, because that's all I'm doing. I'm a reasonably fast reader (not a speed reader, mind, just normally fast), and I can barely keep up. It's more reading than any subject since the commercial law subjects I had to do back in the day. I also had to hand in my first essay for this subject last Monday. Three thousand words on myself as a decision-maker. I wasn't happy with the final product. I would only give myself a Distinction for it, instead of the High Distinction I aim for, but I was just so over it. The weak point was the part where I was supposed to talk about organisational learning. I have a lot of thoughts about how that applies to my organisation, but I couldn't get them down properly. Anyway. It's done now.
I was supposed to have two weeks off in June, but then the tender was announced, so I cancelled that. My boss didn't exactly ask me to, but it was hinted at. Also, I wanted to be part of the tender. This thing has been out of our hands for so long, it was good to take back a bit of control. So it was my choice, and I can't complain. But I've been feeling run down, particularly over the last couple of weeks, dragging myself out of bed. I thought it was just down to needing a break, so it didn't occur to me that I might have been unwell. Not until last weekend when I found myself holed up with a tummy bug. Bleh.
So that has been the last two weeks. And now, finally, I have my two weeks leave. I think I'm going to sleep the first week. And maybe do a meme or two.
1. How long do you usually spend in the shower? Bath?
No time at all in the bath. I haven't had a bath in years. It uses too much water. Also, I don't want to sit in my own dirt. I've never understood how people can read in the bath without getting the pages wet. That's a skill I never mastered.
Showers are maybe ten minutes, tops. Shorter if I don't wash my hair, although I usually do.
2. How many bottles (shampoo, conditioner etc.) are lying around your bathtub?
On the little shelf in the shower are bottles of shampoo, shower gel and face wash.
As I don't use the bath, I have covered it with a nicely painted board to use as a seat or extra shelf. On it is a pot-bellied fig, a giant bag of kitty litter and a wind-up turtle. And, if I am being honest, some clean towels I haven't got round to folding and putting away yet.
3. What is your favourite type of shampoo? Conditioner?
I don't have one. I am fickle, and also I have always read that you're supposed to change regularly. (Is that true? Or is it one of those misguided pieces of folk wisdom?) At the moment I have an enormous bottle of Natralia Nourish Naturals Normal Hair Shampoo Grape Seed & Mandarin. It has to be an enormous bottle to fit all those words on.
I don't use conditioner. Every couple of days, I apply a squirt of Elvive Extraordinary Oil before I get in the shower, then shampoo it out. Calling it extraordinary is probably over-egging it, but it is good stuff. And extremely long-lasting: I have had my current bottle for about six months, and I'm not even half-way through it.
4. Do you always buy your shampoo and conditioner in a set (as opposed to buying different types for each)?
No, not even when I used conditioner. I didn't use them at the same rate. I finished the shampoo before I was even halfway through the conditioner. A matching set remains a distant dream. Much like having matching bra and knickers.
5. Do you prefer stationary shower heads or movable?
Every house I've ever lived in has had a stationary shower head. I have only ever thought of movable shower heads as being something specially installed for people with mobility issues. If someone has to sit on a chair in the shower, for instance, and needs the water source a bit closer. The only ones I've ever actually seen have been in hotel rooms that have both sorts, and it has never occurred to me to use the movable one. But! After reading this meme a couple of weeks ago, I had to go to a meeting in Melbourne, and my hotel room had two shower heads. So I tried the movable one and can definitively state: I don't care for it.
Also: movable or moveable? I've been looking at them for so long that neither looks like a real word any more.