Progress update!
Jul. 28th, 2018 11:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
selenayWell, it's been over two weeks since the big move and I'm settling in well. So are the cats :-)
My new job starts on Monday so I've only got a couple of days of leisure left, but that's not so bad. I'm actually really ready to get started. It turns out that I'm terrible at relaxing after I'm over the initial exhaustion - I've been waking up well before 7am every day this week (including today, Saturday, when I was wide awake before 6am) and I've been trying to rest and relax, but I keep itching to have things to do.
Maybe once I'm in my own home again I'll feel more able to just veg out and do my own thing. I suspect part of my issue is that I'm in my parents' house so I don't feel 'at home' enough to relax. There's always someone here so I kind of have to be 'on' all the time and half the things I'd normally do aren't practical when it's not my own space. I'll start house-hunting very soon so hopefully this issue will be resolved before long!
I've made a lot of good progress, though. I registered with a GP, saw the GP, and now have repeat prescriptions set up and an urgent referral in for a GI doctor so my Humira prescription can be sorted out. That should come through within 4 weeks - I have two months worth of Humira with me and I don't want to run out! The cats are registered with a vet, their microchips are registered, and they're settling in well.
The heatwave made Kate a bit stinky this week and both cats have been dragging, but the weather broke last night and they're already perking up a bit. I need to try a different cat litter brand to see if it helps contain the smell better, because hot weather + cat litter + stinky cat is ick.
I went to the building society this week and they're letting me have a current account with excellent interest for 12 months and, surprisingly, a credit card! I was genuinely not expecting my credit to be that good after ten years away. Hopefully that signals good things for my chances of a mortgage in a couple of years.
I've loaded my very first travel card onto my Oyster so I can begin commuting on Monday, which is both exciting and scary. Hopefully my first day will go well and I'll still be employed at the end of it :-D
I'm a total nerd, so I spent this morning checking out the new machine learning facilities in BigQuery, which got me re-familiarised with BQ and showed me the new web GUI for it. I'm particularly happy that standard SQL is now the default and the deeper integration with Data Studio is great. A morning well spent, I feel!
Tonight I'm going out for dinner with my sister, at the little pop-up restaurant her husband runs once a month from his company's new kitchen premises. It's a five-course tasting menu and it promises to be amazing. I'm staying with them tonight so I don't have to rush for the last train home after, which is lovely. Thankfully the heatwave has broken, at least for the next few days, so it won't be hideous in London and I should be able to sleep well tonight in their spare bedroom. I really didn't want to start my working week exhausted!
This whole "seeing family" stuff is working out well so far :-D I've seen my uncle a couple of times, including for his birthday, and we're working out dates for more family events. When the weather is less disgustingly hot, I'm hopeful about events with friends actually happening, too!
So, that's where I am. Settling in, happy, and looking forward to the next few weeks. Hooray.
My new job starts on Monday so I've only got a couple of days of leisure left, but that's not so bad. I'm actually really ready to get started. It turns out that I'm terrible at relaxing after I'm over the initial exhaustion - I've been waking up well before 7am every day this week (including today, Saturday, when I was wide awake before 6am) and I've been trying to rest and relax, but I keep itching to have things to do.
Maybe once I'm in my own home again I'll feel more able to just veg out and do my own thing. I suspect part of my issue is that I'm in my parents' house so I don't feel 'at home' enough to relax. There's always someone here so I kind of have to be 'on' all the time and half the things I'd normally do aren't practical when it's not my own space. I'll start house-hunting very soon so hopefully this issue will be resolved before long!
I've made a lot of good progress, though. I registered with a GP, saw the GP, and now have repeat prescriptions set up and an urgent referral in for a GI doctor so my Humira prescription can be sorted out. That should come through within 4 weeks - I have two months worth of Humira with me and I don't want to run out! The cats are registered with a vet, their microchips are registered, and they're settling in well.
The heatwave made Kate a bit stinky this week and both cats have been dragging, but the weather broke last night and they're already perking up a bit. I need to try a different cat litter brand to see if it helps contain the smell better, because hot weather + cat litter + stinky cat is ick.
I went to the building society this week and they're letting me have a current account with excellent interest for 12 months and, surprisingly, a credit card! I was genuinely not expecting my credit to be that good after ten years away. Hopefully that signals good things for my chances of a mortgage in a couple of years.
I've loaded my very first travel card onto my Oyster so I can begin commuting on Monday, which is both exciting and scary. Hopefully my first day will go well and I'll still be employed at the end of it :-D
I'm a total nerd, so I spent this morning checking out the new machine learning facilities in BigQuery, which got me re-familiarised with BQ and showed me the new web GUI for it. I'm particularly happy that standard SQL is now the default and the deeper integration with Data Studio is great. A morning well spent, I feel!
Tonight I'm going out for dinner with my sister, at the little pop-up restaurant her husband runs once a month from his company's new kitchen premises. It's a five-course tasting menu and it promises to be amazing. I'm staying with them tonight so I don't have to rush for the last train home after, which is lovely. Thankfully the heatwave has broken, at least for the next few days, so it won't be hideous in London and I should be able to sleep well tonight in their spare bedroom. I really didn't want to start my working week exhausted!
This whole "seeing family" stuff is working out well so far :-D I've seen my uncle a couple of times, including for his birthday, and we're working out dates for more family events. When the weather is less disgustingly hot, I'm hopeful about events with friends actually happening, too!
So, that's where I am. Settling in, happy, and looking forward to the next few weeks. Hooray.
