Random Things

Random #1

If you're going to give notice, there are better and worse ways to do it. I have no ideas about worse (though I can imagine), but I now have experience in better. The people I work with are (and remain) wonderful people who do great work. So far at least, they seem to be able to accept the reasons behind my choice and to genuinely wish me well. Even the person who hired me (going out on a limb to do so) and trained me. I guess the training took too well.

I also suspect that some others at the company won't fully appreciate me until I'm gone. Just by virtue of the way my brain works and the length of time I've spent at the company, I hold an awful lot of things in my head and know where to find all kinds of things in the archives. Not that I won't answer questions after I've gone, but it's not the same at all.

Change is nervous-making, and I'm definitely nervous. I think that the new position will be better for me professionally and better for my family and the juggling act we call work/family balance. That's what I'm aiming for.

Random #2

Apparently Relly Girl absorbs what's going on at Tot Shabbat even when she isn't obviously paying attention. Tonight she found the small stuffed Torah and started dancing around and singing the appropriate song for the occasion. Most of the words were even Hebrew too. She's had a favorite song for weeks that she sings on many occasions and starts up with whenever we go to the building, Shabbat or not.

Random #3

Keeping kids in books is hard work. Mr. Personality has decided to eat (devour) the Spiderwick Chronicles. He and Universe Man saw a preview for the movie and they know the rule that you can't see a movie until you've read the book (not that they'll necessarily see the movie), so I took the first book out. Today I picked books 2-4 up from the library, and Mr. Personality has already finished eating book 2. Don't even get me started on trying to keep Universe Man in books. At least they like to re-read things or I don't know what I'd do.

Random #4

I think I've decided on my next sweater for me. Or possibly my next two sweaters. And yarn for each. Coincidentally, I bought the yarn at the same time. I'm going to cannibalize my Titled Duster (AKA Tilted Duster) to make Arwen and use some wool tweed I picked up at Webs to make the pullover version of Eris. Never mind the other things that are started or the sweater I've promised Mr. Personality (which will require much swatching and designing, which is my only excuse for not jumping into it) or the felted clogs I should make so that I don't ruin all my handknit socks this winter or the sweater I'm test-knitting that will be for Relly Girl. And I really should get some pictures of knitting things up here.