2018 has been such a successful year, I can’t even believe it. The very one thing I never thought I’d get was real, unadulterated love and to my own amazement I met the man that I want to spend the rest of my life with, the man who made me forget all my past hurts and treated me with gentleness and care of a wounded soul. The man who will be my husband and the father of my children. After everything I suffered at the beginning of the year, I can’t believe I’m ending the year in love.
Finding love is definitely the highlight of my year but I’ve done so well. I moved from that horrible place into somewhere where I have peace of mind. I passed my driving test and bought a car! I launched a new business! And hopefully before the end of the year I’ll have gotten a new job! I’ve also travelled to lots of new countries and cities, I started a meetup for sci-fi and fantasy lovers, I’ve made new friends and I’ve generally been very happy. It’s been such a great year!
Really, leaving my current company will be the icing on top of an already sweet year.
I’ve already written my letter of resignation. I made sure to make it known that I specifically enjoyed working in the first two departments at the company, without any mention of my current department. I then went on to thank everyone who has helped me over the past three years without any thanks directed towards my boss. It’s polite but I’m hoping it throws enough shade. I can’t wait to hand in my letter and look him dead in the eye with an air of smugness surrounding the whole action and then on my last day I’ll casj drop to my fellow colleagues that it’s my last day, I’ll send an email with the subject, ‘Today is my last day at [company]’ and the message body will read, ‘Thanks for everything!’.
The end.
No one will ever hear from me again. If you have my personal number then good for you. If you don’t, well, that’s a shame, eh?
The one thing I’ve learnt this year is to ask and you shall receive.
Example 1: I have to pay for a parking space with my current estate agents. They quoted me x amount but I asked if I could pay 28.5% less than what I was told it costs and they agreed to it straight away.
Example 2: Yesterday afternoon I spoke with the HR lady from the company that I’m potentially getting a job offer from and told her that for one of the roles that they are considering me for (the sales one) it seems to be entry level and I have three years of working experience, and that I’d be interested in a more senior role, like the sales engineering role and if there was any way I could go straight into that. She said she’d send forward my resume to the head of the department and if there was an opening that they could maybe get me into that.
It’s amazing. I love how accommodating the company is. They really care about what I personally want and they’re working hard to get me in. I definitely will be buying them gifts when I start working there!
For the technical support engineer role that I interviewed for a few evenings ago, there was one question the guy asked me. He said, if an application kept crashing, what procedure would I go through to figure out what was wrong with it? Best believe your girl said she’d Google the error message, or she’d close down the process completely and reopen it or restart the computer. I know, I’m basic, but to make up for the answer I did ask about a million and one questions. I’m assuming I redeemed myself because they haven’t rejected me from the role.
I’m just really happy I’m staying in Deraland. I thought I’d have to move away to get a good job at a good company but I’ve found one literally 5 minutes away from my current workplace. It’s amazing. I get to stay close to my love and in the New Year we’re going to start house hunting together.
I did some marketing for my new business yesterday, I sent round email invitations to my followers but the uptake still seems very, very slow. It’s annoying. I really just need to get out there and start pushing for vendors.
Business is hard! Boo!
I’ll think in 2019, I’ll be getting married and then 2020, babies! I can’t wait to have kids. That’s one thing I will never sacrifice. No job or business will ever come before having kids before 30. I’m now at that age where all I can ask myself is, ‘what am I waiting for?’ I have a career, I have a car that I can easily afford, my finances are in order, if I wanted to I could afford to buy a house. I’m in a very secure and happy relationship with someone who treats me so well. All I can say is that there’s nothing really left for me to wait for. If I could do it all right now, I would but I’m about to get a new job and getting pregnant straight away wouldn’t be too great. I want to wait until I’m there for at least a year first, and so at the end of 2019, Telis and I can start making babies.
Our timeline:
10 months: move in together
1 year and 3 months: buy and house together and get married
1 year and 6 month: start making babies.
I’m 26 so I really don’t have any reason to be waiting five years before getting engaged. When I was 19 it was a different story because, well, I was 19. Even if I was still with Jomi, we would have been getting married in 2019, so nothing’s really changed, just the man. So basically everything’s changed.
I’ve come a long way with my heartbreak. Thinking about Jomi doesn’t hurt anymore. He even wished me happy birthday and talking to him and then not talking to him didn’t hurt either. When I think of him, I remember best-friendship, innocence and love. I’ve never had a friendship so deep and pure and I probably won’t ever again but now I share something much more wholesome and adult with someone else and I regret nothing.
I don’t think you’ll ever forget your first love and I don’t want to forget. It will always be beautiful.
Not to spoil the nostalgia, but I love how my boss is just piling on the work. It’s perfect! He should just give me more and more because he’ll need to have someone else start dealing with everything once I’m gone, which is very soon! The way he got rid of my colleague was so unfair and now they’ll be two less people in his team and it would be all his fault and it’ll be so deserved!
Motherfucker.