Checking In

So, it's a new era. I guess. Of sorts.
I figured it's time to update some folk.


* Still at school - albeit new subjects to break up the boredom. I was doing sign language. Now picking up the complementary health course I started in 2009. Had tried for a few weeks, but was still a nightshifter and in too shitty a mindspace to really do it. (Kinda strange that I choose to pick it up again now, but less mindfuckery and more support this time around).


* Working as a casual in Promotions. Basically this means working a few shifts here and there as a brand ambassador for different client companies. You know those people who hand out free samples at the shops? That's me. I'm also doing one assignment where I spend three hours chatting to the cashiers, ignoring the customers, and simply noting down the details of transactions in a particular chain.

The good thing about this job? Everyone likes free samples, the shifts are short and close to home, I bring free stuff home, and the company/client companies think I'm fab.

The bad things? I'm so not used to being on my feet a lot after more than a year of being an officebitch but that will improve, I've been warned that work can dry up in the future so I need to prepare for that, I had a random lady decide to tell me all about the second coming of Christ while I was stuck being a sample bitch in Coles yesterday :P


* Getting my house slowly in order now that I'm home more. This involves finally giving the place a goddam good clean, and preparing for a new arrival!
No, you fools I'm not pregnant. A new kitty will be coming in join our family. She's a rescue who loves cuddles. And a ginger, so I'm sold already. Hopefully existing older kitty will integrate well. We're going to set up her own room so we can slowly introduce them.


* Working on my Social Anxiety. I'm going to start seeing someone now that I have a referral to someone who's been highly recommended. Keeping things in check by using the "Irrelephant".
Concentration Meditation: a tiny metal elephant that I focus on when I can't handle situations. If there is too much noise or stimuli for example (which a main trigger of mine), I pull out my elephant (or any other small object on hand if he's not with me) and focus entirely on it. I turn it over in my hands and take in every detail, ignoring the fact that I already know him implicitly, and maintain that "Everything that has nothing to do with him is 'irrelephant' (wordplay on irrelevant)".
It's something I learnt a while back, and it helps. But leaving the call centre was definitely a good move, much as I loved my team.