![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Good Mornthing!
7/12/18 09:11You know what my social media totally needs? Another post talking about social media!
In brief, everything is in wild kerfluffle right now.
In not so brief but list-oriented format (with links!):
I'm on Twitter but I don't use it much.
I'm on Instagram, but mostly have just been using it as an easy way to push photo-based posts to Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr, so I don't know how much longer that will be useful.
I may make a PIllowfort account if a lot of folks from Tumblr go that way, but it's still very much in development and I'm hoping they come here instead.
WHEEE, CHANGES!
In other news, there are other changes in my life. Most notably, I am shifting from a part-time-technically-scheduled-for-less-than-twenty-hours-but-working-close-to-thirty position at work to a full time position. I am excited not only because I got my review at the same time, so this change is coming with the related small pay bump, but because my boss is really thoughtful and dedicated to working with my particular situation and needs so that the job doesn't interfere with my home life. To that end, I am going to be Closer Girl Extraordinaire! I'll be able to get all the Spawn up and off to school, and then head into work. Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday are going to be regular 8-hour days. Thursdays I'll be starting earlier and ending later, making a 10-hour day, because Saturday is only a 6 hour day. Fridays being a day off is awesome not just because it leaves me a chunk of open weekday time for any needful things that need doing during traditional business hours, but also it's a day off when the Spawn are at school so I get some built-in time just for me every week, AND I will still have no problem driving the lads to the Spawnfather's place on alternate Friday nights.
In related good news, my little pay bump is retroactive to when I should have had my review back in the beginning of September, so there will be a nice little chunk of change in my next paycheck for that. Given the impending $winter holiday$, plus the work my car needs done, the timing on that honestly could not be better.
Meanwhile, I have a workfriend who has made the overtures toward being an outside-of-work friend, and I could not be more excited. We have had some very similar life situations/experiences, and seem to kind of be in the same social interest place right now. To wit: "want to come over and have some wine and crochet and watch horror with me?"
A WORLD OF YES.
So, I still need to make the call to get the car worked on. I need to do Christmas shopping. I need to find me a kittycat to come be my buddy.
But I have a job I enjoy and am good at, at a place where I like all the people and they appreciate me and understand the value I bring to the job. I'm making enough money to pay my bills and start saving, the impending car repairs that will be eating all those savings notwithstanding. I am reasonably healthy.
And I gave myself the gift of a little bit of World of Warcraft time, so maybe come find me in Azeroth? I'm Bliss#1599 there.
Hello, Blisstopia.<3
In brief, everything is in wild kerfluffle right now.
In not so brief but list-oriented format (with links!):
- Google+ announced to be shuttering by August 2019
- Google Hangouts rumored to be closing down, although initial reports have been amended to say there will be a migration from Hangouts to Hangouts Chat and Hangouts Meet
- Tumblr is going to ban adult content as of December 17, and in the run-up to that has deployed some sort of supposed porn-detecting algorithm to flag posts that is in fact flagging everything, from innocuous cartoons to sand dunes, to regular fully clothed selfies and Mark Rothko abstract art, and even in the most laughable instance of all it flagged Tumblr's own text-only announcement of the impending change.
- Facebook made a community standards policy change last month that essentially bans any mention whatsoever of sex or sexuality, and has started removing posts that mention sex in any way
I'm on Twitter but I don't use it much.
I'm on Instagram, but mostly have just been using it as an easy way to push photo-based posts to Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr, so I don't know how much longer that will be useful.
I may make a PIllowfort account if a lot of folks from Tumblr go that way, but it's still very much in development and I'm hoping they come here instead.
WHEEE, CHANGES!
In other news, there are other changes in my life. Most notably, I am shifting from a part-time-technically-scheduled-for-less-than-twenty-hours-but-working-close-to-thirty position at work to a full time position. I am excited not only because I got my review at the same time, so this change is coming with the related small pay bump, but because my boss is really thoughtful and dedicated to working with my particular situation and needs so that the job doesn't interfere with my home life. To that end, I am going to be Closer Girl Extraordinaire! I'll be able to get all the Spawn up and off to school, and then head into work. Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday are going to be regular 8-hour days. Thursdays I'll be starting earlier and ending later, making a 10-hour day, because Saturday is only a 6 hour day. Fridays being a day off is awesome not just because it leaves me a chunk of open weekday time for any needful things that need doing during traditional business hours, but also it's a day off when the Spawn are at school so I get some built-in time just for me every week, AND I will still have no problem driving the lads to the Spawnfather's place on alternate Friday nights.
In related good news, my little pay bump is retroactive to when I should have had my review back in the beginning of September, so there will be a nice little chunk of change in my next paycheck for that. Given the impending $winter holiday$, plus the work my car needs done, the timing on that honestly could not be better.
Meanwhile, I have a workfriend who has made the overtures toward being an outside-of-work friend, and I could not be more excited. We have had some very similar life situations/experiences, and seem to kind of be in the same social interest place right now. To wit: "want to come over and have some wine and crochet and watch horror with me?"
A WORLD OF YES.
So, I still need to make the call to get the car worked on. I need to do Christmas shopping. I need to find me a kittycat to come be my buddy.
But I have a job I enjoy and am good at, at a place where I like all the people and they appreciate me and understand the value I bring to the job. I'm making enough money to pay my bills and start saving, the impending car repairs that will be eating all those savings notwithstanding. I am reasonably healthy.
And I gave myself the gift of a little bit of World of Warcraft time, so maybe come find me in Azeroth? I'm Bliss#1599 there.
Hello, Blisstopia.<3
