One of the biggest annoyances in my life is the fact that I'm a terrible sleeper in my old age. I wake up every 1-2 hours and am wide awake and unable to fall back asleep. I take medication to help me get and stay asleep, and last night I forgot to take it. I remembered after I woke up for the 3rd time at 3am and was still awake at 4am. By which point it was too late to take it because I have a Zoom call for my beta test group at 7am. Sigh. At 5, after it was clear I wasn't falling back to sleep, I got up and took a shower and got dressed. Since I'm going to be meeting with my crafting group via zoom, I wore my Flax Light sweater, which is super comfy for my day off. While I was awake earlier, I did manage to get within a half inch of the beginning of the toe decreases on my tweed socks. During and after the call I will try to get those done so that I have another FO in the books for 2023.
Yesterday I got some training at my new job from 2 different people who are both very nice & helpful. Hopefully I remember what they taught me and I did take some chicken scratch notes to jog my memory. I was so relieved to see a co-worker from my old store that I asked for pull into the parking lot behind me. My boss had said that someone I didn't know was coming from a different store, so it was a relief to see someone familiar. The other person was the woman who had my position before me. She taught me some of the shortcuts she uses to get around different problems that are unique to my position. It was all a little overwhelming. But in a good way. An exciting way. I don't leave my car in the morning filled with misery as I walk in, so it's a win. One of my other old co-workers texted me out of the blue to ask how I was doing at my new store. I told him about some of the different challenges we're facing as we go into the dreaded "INVENTORY" day next week.
I did break the crafting no-buy this week to get a dress form in my size. I like when people show a project in progress on a dummy. I got an email from Joann's that dress forms were on sale, but my size was out of stock locally and online, so I checked Amazon and they had it even cheaper with Saturday delivery, so that will be here tomorrow. I look forward to taking better photos of my sweaters on the mannequin and also maybe sewing garments that fit me in the near future, if I ever get my sewing area straightened up. It was difficult to choose the size small-medium based on my measurements when I typically still buy size Large/XL by default. But I wanted it to be accurate. Now I won't have issues like I did when I tried to sew a skirt to wear to my aunt's funeral only to find out after it was done that it was too small around my waist. And I will be able to mark for a hem on pants & dresses without too much trouble.
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