KSena's Journal

I don't even know how to get all this in one post... o.O I'll try to anyway.

First off, my leg is doing fine. :-) Really well. It's still stiff and I lose my balance sometimes since all muscles aren't all OK yet, but all in all. I've lost my balance two times so far, but I haven't fallen over. So that's good!

I'll just do this in bullet-points. Hope you won't mind!

• My new job is both more relaxed AND more to do than my previous job. How does that work, you ask? Well, more to do since I'm responsible for 6(!) school-libraries on the country-side and so have to drive between them, while my base of operation is at the library. It's more relaxed because even though there are many libraries, I can still decided what I wanna do in another matter, and I'll do the same thing for all the 1st graders (for example) at all schools, so it's less planning. And I get to do some work in the regular library as well. Win-win, if you ask me.



• The first impression of the library I am at still holds what with being friendly and nice sweet workmates. To an extent. What has cracked some is the surface. I have to do a bit more work in the regular library, since one of the librarians there HAS run headfirst in the dreaded wall and had a breakdown. She has gotten better and works more, but she is NOT as OK as she thinks she is. Which ends up with the other librarian having to pick up a lot of her slack, which has him TO be on his way into said wall. To say the mood is not as good all days would be an understatement. :-P



• I've ended up being the dishwasher. No one takes care of the staff kitchen. I guess that is part of the above, but still. Geezes. Having a nice kitchen and staff room does improve your mood.



• The above mentioned male librarian is wonderful a man. He really is. A long haired old rocker boy who goes to festivals and concerts still. And he is a fan of various fantasy book series, and LOVES Game of Thrones. He also finds this thing with fandoms, fanfic, fandom-friends and all that to be really interesting. He don't like social media (like at all!), but he still finds it interesting so we talk about it quite a bit. :-) We're having a great time working together, we really do!



• One of the first days I was alone and on my own I re-arranged the office I work from. One would think all librarians are organized. Not true, for your information. I'm not extremely so, but my predecessor was really a sad case.



• Working from the library van/book van is AWESOME! :-D The schools and pre-schools we visit is so excited to see us! It's wonderful! People being excited about borrowing books makes me happy. And the driver is a HOOT! X-D A mom with six kids, one special needs. And a horse farm. And she's a diehard Dr Who fangirl who reads Dr Who fanfic and goes to convention. And who's husband is building her a Tardis on the farm. Thursdays with her are hilarious even if they are the longest day of the week for me. :-D



• Best part about this is teachers and kids at the schools are all excited about seeing me. It's not like working at a school in the city where the teachers feel you are intruding and kinda don't want you there and the kids are bored and 'do we have to read another book?' You know the kind of attitude... Totally opposite in the schools on the countryside! Which is encouraging really and makes me happy to go to work!



• My schedule is very up and down. Some very short days, some very long ones. And some very late ones and some very early ones. So even though Alexandra's schedule at daycare really changed, she is getting shorter days, so me getting this job was a win for her to, I'd say. Also, we get a smaller daycare bill. ;-)

All in all, I am very glad I took this opportunity to take this job. I think it was good for me, despite the downsides to it. I like my job. Still LOVE my boss! And my workmates are awesome, despite their flaws. I like it. I'm hired until the 31st of December. I hope I get to stay after that to. Fingers crossed!

Next post will be about New Yorkers on the swedish countryside!

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Oh, these days... I am not sure what to say about it.

I keep trying to get caught up with things, but failing. Not online, but RL things.

Alexandra is 1 year old. Crazy. That means I can't stay at home anymore getting parents' allowance. You get a certain amount of days for that, paid 80% of your regular allowance or a the minimum-wage. (I get the minimum one.) I have saved quite a bit of days, so I can stay home September to, but after that? Back to work.

And Alexandra will go to daycare. There are some really really good ones around here, and we wished for the closest and the best (according to mom's I've talked to at Open Preschool that have older kids to). It has a HUGE garden with toys and stuff on it, and looks really nice when I walk by when the people working there are outside with the kids. It looks just AWESOME! But.... it was full. :-/ No room for more kids. So we got another place, still within walking distance, but a bit further away. Also looks very nice and all, but I was a bit disappointed we couldn't get our first choice. Their all government run, like most day care places are here. So we can still stand in line for our first choice, while she is at this place though, so I hope it'll work out in the end.

My problem though is that I got this schedule in the mail to fill in with my working hours.

.....

I don't have a set working schedule. I can't fill it in. I am hired by the hour. Some weeks I might work a lot. Some weeks I might not work at all. It is very different day to day. And when I don't work, I go downtown looking for work, so it is all up in the air there. *sigh* I think I'll just go over there and talk to the staff. I mean, I am new to all this. Alexandra is my first kid, I've never dealt with daycare stuff before.

Awesome thing is though, that even if I am partly unemployed and only hired by the hour, we have a right to 15 hours of daycare a week. Meaning I can get a breather and hopefully be a better mom. :-D Plus, Alexandra gets to socialize with other kids and learn new things.

Win-win!

I hope it'll turn out great, I really do. She is already quite social with other kids and very curious on other kids, so I think she'll do great. I took her for a walk today, and we stopped at a playground where there were quite a bit of kids in various ages playing. All of them were older than Alexandra, but she looked like she had fun crawling around in the sand among the kids and sitting in the swing while I pushed her. (She loves swings.)

So it'll be fine. :-) I am proud of her, even when she... as today... has really bad days and NOTHING mom dose is fun... except when I take her out to playgrounds and push her swing. *LOL*

We went to her 1-year check up yesterday to! Which went really fine. She got approved on all accounts! *LOL* So now I know she is 74 centimeters tall (29 inches) and weighs 9.5 kilos (20.9 pounds). And she can do all the things a 1-year old is supposed to be able to do. :-)

Also, she got a set of vaccine-shots... So I guess that would explain her bad mood today. Seriously. She had a MOOD! Yes. It requires all caps. :-P

Right, so...

My life as a mom. What can I say? Exciting, eh?

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