First, it is time to don the party hats and join in the celebration of JenP's birthday! I hope you are being spoiled today and that the year to come brings all you hope for and more.
Atropa! Sending whatever ~ma would be helpful. I'm sorry things are so stressful.
David, balance is a biggee. Most of my gym time is spent on stretching and balance PT. I'm very mindful of my posture and in the past few years changed to sitting in a harder-backed rocking chair rather than slumping on the sofa. Unlike my sisters and many other friends I am the same height I have been all my adult life. I expect to shrink at some point but at 72 I am keeping my focus ahead not down and stretching these old bones.
Happy birthday, JenP!!!
Hope it works out at your job, Atropa, because, yeah, trying to find a job in our field as a >50 woman right now is trash.
Thanks, lisah and Laura!
I came to post that after David's post last night I went down the freaking rabbit hole about balance tests, etc. Hilarious. Self-diagnosis - basically fine, with some residual catching up still to be done from my right ankle, which I broke about a year ago. And I intend to add some easy balance exercises into the (non-existent) daily routine.
Why do I do better with routines yet also often hate them? A question for the ages.
Happy Birthday JenP! Right there with you about routines.
FIngers crossed things turn out okay at work, Atropa.
Happy birthday, Jen!
Yeah, same on routines. I absolutely crave routine until I get one semi-established and then I do everything I can to break out of it. Not at all sensible.
It's "write your annual review" time, and my boss told me I should make sure I include as many examples of things I did tied to the level expectations for my role.
UGH, I hate shit like this. (It is one of the only tasks I find AI truly useful for, since (a) I don't want to do it and (b) I don't remember this entire year.)
We changed our self evaluation program again. In the training for the new system they told us they wanted us to practice using AI with our evaluations.
So I set it to "corporate language," typed things in, fixed the letter, submitted it.
This was good because I'm crap at corporate language.
Forget plastics, the future is in self-evaluation - we change it annually.
Thank you, peeps!
Holy shit -- DH and I were just talking, and I said I wanted to continue the tradition of going to my favorite local diner for b-day dinner on my actual b-day (there are a couple of capital B birthday dinners this weekend, so... chill is the goal for today) -- not an hour later I see an article saying that the diner and the couple of bakeries and such they own are being sued by the feds for $20M in back taxes. How... what... how do you DO that? This is a dude my DH will have the occasional drink with at a local dive. Like, I know him. We chat. Holy shit. That is ROUGH.
