Category Archives: Random Thoughts

Why I love Holo Taco Nail Polish

When I was a child, my mom took me to a child psychologist to see why I was acting strangely when I came home from my father’s house during the summers. The thing I remember most clearly about that interaction is that he was wearing argyle socks, and that’s the day I learned what argyle was, and the word of it. After our session, he told my mother that I “sparkled like a diamond.” She repeated that story to me many times over the years before she passed in July of 2022, and it was a common theme in gifts she would give for Christmas and birthdays. But I’ve always been obsessed with all things glittery and sparkly, so when I discovered Cristine on Simply Nailogical and her gorgeous Holo Taco nail polish sets, I was immediately addicted. About once a month, I completely reset my nails with a different style, and it’s something my husband tolerates because it makes me happy. I love him extra for allowing me to have this habit, and while it’s a bit expensive, for me it’s completely worth it.

Christmas gumdrops 2021. Sometimes I paint my cuticles, too, but it wears off and looks better the next day.

Pivoting?

Since I was laid off from Identity Automation in August of 2022 after 3 1/2 years of successfully running their documentation (much of which I did alone), I have had some difficulty finding a perfect fit in the workforce once again. My earnest hope is that a small start-up with no tech writer will find me because they need someone to set up their documentation department and actually develop a user manual as well as an internal documentation protocol. I do what I do because I love it and it’s interesting to me, and because nobody else ever wants to deal with the tedium and organized chaos that is documentation in an engineering environment. But I like it and have built a career on that.

However, I’ve begun to start asking myself: If I’m not a documentation professional, what can I do? What jobs can I apply for that will utilize my existing skill set to the fullest while still providing an interesting work environment/decent paycheck? (i.e., I don’t want to go back to secretarial/assistant work if I can help it.) So this is my identity crisis at 42 years of age.

#JustBeingHonestHere #ThisIsMyLife