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todayiamadaisyHello, f-list. I am unemployed! For two days. I finished work on Friday and I will start the new job on Monday. I've never done that before. I've always had at least a couple of weeks between jobs. I hope I remember to go to the right place. It's just across the road from where I've just finished, so that's not entirely out of the question. I must remember to turn right instead of left.
My last week was busy. My first boss from there, who left from burnout a few months after I started, rang from Canberra, which was nice. She's stopped being an accountant and is retraining as a tennis coach. Good for her. The finance and governance team, located in three different states, had a Skype lunch for me and sent me a gift voucher for a ticket agency, so that's my winter musical taken care of. The local staff took me out to dinner and give me an orchid and a glass jewellery box. And on Friday, the colleague who couldn't make the dinner popped in on her way to a meeting to give me a cake. Lovely people. I shall miss them. I will not miss the organisation, which is, let's say, interesting. I'll find out how they're managing without me in a couple of weeks, when I go to the leaving do for the other person made redundant.
In non-work news, my small-change piggy-bank was full, so last weekend I emptied its little belly and counted my coins: $144. I took them to the bank the following day and put it through the coin counter: $144.05. I said to the teller, "That's not right, there weren't any five cents in there, only gold coins [meaning one or two dollars]". She shrugged and said there must have been a five cent piece stuck in the machine. Lucky me, five cents profit. The thing is, the same thing happened last time I emptied the piggy bank; I remember writing about it here. I am inadvertently perpetrating the slowest bank fraud ever.
(Speaking of fraud: a tip, f-list. My tax office newsletter advised that we should write out the year in full on finance documents this year. That is, write 1/1/2020, not just 1/1/20. Putting 20 leaves it too open to be altered to another year for nefarious purposes.)
I'm not sure if it's because it's a new year, or because I've been preparing for the new job, or perhaps both, but I've been cleaning out. Inbox zero. Tidy desk. Wardrobe clearcut. The piggy-bank was a happy coincidence. I'm thinking I might have to unsubscribe to a few podcasts; I've been listening to them on my solo days in the office, but I suspect there will be more people around at the city council.
Music resolution meme stolen from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lady_bird
Get out your iPod (or something from the 2010s/2020s) and prepare to be amazed by the power of music to predict what you will, or should, do in the new year. Shuffle your playlist and set your controls for random play. Let it play a new, randomly selected song for each question and write down the title as your answer. Don't pick and choose — take the first song it gives you!
1. So, how would you best describe 2019?
"Like A Prayer" - Lavender Diamond
2. What should your new year's resolutions deal with?
"Dreaming in Colour" - Art of Noise
3. What's in store for you this spring?
"Quando Quando Quando" - Engelbert Humperdinck
A song I didn't even know I had.
4. This summer?
"Perfect Day" - Lou Reed
Well, that sounds positive.
5. This winter?
"Love Will Keep Us Together" - Captain & Tenille
And that sounds warm.
6. What about this year's holiday?
"The Moomins Theme"
7. Will you find true love this year?
"World Without Love" - Peter and Gordon
Grim.
8. If you do, what will be "your song" with your new love?
"I'm Your Man" - Leonard Cohen
9. How will things go with your friends this year?
"You're Welcome" - Dwayne Johnson, Moana Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
10. What will you worry about this year?
"Si tu vois ma mère" - Sidney Bechet
11. What will be a pleasant surprise this year?
"Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk" - Rufus Wainwright
12. What will cause you problems this year?
"Angel of the Morning" - Merrilee Ruch and the Turnabouts
13. How will school be this year?
"Can't Take My Eyes Off You" - Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons
14. How will things go at work?
"100% Pure Love" - Crystal Waters
15. Will you get rich this year?
"Sæterjentens Søndag" - Kirsten Flagstad
This means "dairymaid's Sunday", so... probably not.
My last week was busy. My first boss from there, who left from burnout a few months after I started, rang from Canberra, which was nice. She's stopped being an accountant and is retraining as a tennis coach. Good for her. The finance and governance team, located in three different states, had a Skype lunch for me and sent me a gift voucher for a ticket agency, so that's my winter musical taken care of. The local staff took me out to dinner and give me an orchid and a glass jewellery box. And on Friday, the colleague who couldn't make the dinner popped in on her way to a meeting to give me a cake. Lovely people. I shall miss them. I will not miss the organisation, which is, let's say, interesting. I'll find out how they're managing without me in a couple of weeks, when I go to the leaving do for the other person made redundant.
In non-work news, my small-change piggy-bank was full, so last weekend I emptied its little belly and counted my coins: $144. I took them to the bank the following day and put it through the coin counter: $144.05. I said to the teller, "That's not right, there weren't any five cents in there, only gold coins [meaning one or two dollars]". She shrugged and said there must have been a five cent piece stuck in the machine. Lucky me, five cents profit. The thing is, the same thing happened last time I emptied the piggy bank; I remember writing about it here. I am inadvertently perpetrating the slowest bank fraud ever.
(Speaking of fraud: a tip, f-list. My tax office newsletter advised that we should write out the year in full on finance documents this year. That is, write 1/1/2020, not just 1/1/20. Putting 20 leaves it too open to be altered to another year for nefarious purposes.)
I'm not sure if it's because it's a new year, or because I've been preparing for the new job, or perhaps both, but I've been cleaning out. Inbox zero. Tidy desk. Wardrobe clearcut. The piggy-bank was a happy coincidence. I'm thinking I might have to unsubscribe to a few podcasts; I've been listening to them on my solo days in the office, but I suspect there will be more people around at the city council.
Music resolution meme stolen from
lady_birdGet out your iPod (or something from the 2010s/2020s) and prepare to be amazed by the power of music to predict what you will, or should, do in the new year. Shuffle your playlist and set your controls for random play. Let it play a new, randomly selected song for each question and write down the title as your answer. Don't pick and choose — take the first song it gives you!
1. So, how would you best describe 2019?
"Like A Prayer" - Lavender Diamond
2. What should your new year's resolutions deal with?
"Dreaming in Colour" - Art of Noise
3. What's in store for you this spring?
"Quando Quando Quando" - Engelbert Humperdinck
A song I didn't even know I had.
4. This summer?
"Perfect Day" - Lou Reed
Well, that sounds positive.
5. This winter?
"Love Will Keep Us Together" - Captain & Tenille
And that sounds warm.
6. What about this year's holiday?
"The Moomins Theme"
7. Will you find true love this year?
"World Without Love" - Peter and Gordon
Grim.
8. If you do, what will be "your song" with your new love?
"I'm Your Man" - Leonard Cohen
9. How will things go with your friends this year?
"You're Welcome" - Dwayne Johnson, Moana Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
10. What will you worry about this year?
"Si tu vois ma mère" - Sidney Bechet
11. What will be a pleasant surprise this year?
"Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk" - Rufus Wainwright
12. What will cause you problems this year?
"Angel of the Morning" - Merrilee Ruch and the Turnabouts
13. How will school be this year?
"Can't Take My Eyes Off You" - Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons
14. How will things go at work?
"100% Pure Love" - Crystal Waters
15. Will you get rich this year?
"Sæterjentens Søndag" - Kirsten Flagstad
This means "dairymaid's Sunday", so... probably not.