January Ups and Downs
Jan. 21st, 2023 10:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lowbeyonder(x-posted to Tumblr + Cohost)
This has certainly been a month.
We still haven’t closed on a house, because I still don’t have a US credit report to give to the bank here, because getting one of those is really obnoxious outside the US. However I did manage to defeat TransUnion’s godawful automated phone system by escaping the maze of options and putting an actual human agent on the phone, who was incredibly helpful. So hopefully a copy of my credit report will arrive at my mother’s house early next week and I can bring this whole stupid affair to… if not an end, at least the next hurdle.
Mass layoffs at Google. AFAIK the first time they’ve ever done it, and I’m pretty unhappy about that. “Not surprised, just disappointed”, as they say. The really frustrating part is that since I’m in the Dublin office, and there are a bunch of labor laws in the EU about the layoff process and it’s not just “X,000 people get an email and their badges turned off”, instead we know they’re coming but it may be weeks before we know who. Which… look, I kinda get the intent behind those laws, but it’s not doing my anxiety any favors. So my plan is to change absolute nothing about my immediate/short-term plans and bottle up all that stress and anxiety behind a wall of denial and wishful thinking. I’m sure this is a good plan with no downsides.
In better news, I’m getting top surgery (breast augmentation) in two weeks. Nervous about it—honestly, more nervous than I’ve been letting on—especially since it’s my first time under general anesthesia. But also, my breast growth from the last 18 months of HRT was pretty perfunctory so I’m excited about it too, both for the body/dysphoria issues, and the hope that it’ll cut down on randos misgendering me despite the fact that I dress and present very femme.
And on that note, I shall conclude with a recent selfie I liked.
This has certainly been a month.
We still haven’t closed on a house, because I still don’t have a US credit report to give to the bank here, because getting one of those is really obnoxious outside the US. However I did manage to defeat TransUnion’s godawful automated phone system by escaping the maze of options and putting an actual human agent on the phone, who was incredibly helpful. So hopefully a copy of my credit report will arrive at my mother’s house early next week and I can bring this whole stupid affair to… if not an end, at least the next hurdle.
Mass layoffs at Google. AFAIK the first time they’ve ever done it, and I’m pretty unhappy about that. “Not surprised, just disappointed”, as they say. The really frustrating part is that since I’m in the Dublin office, and there are a bunch of labor laws in the EU about the layoff process and it’s not just “X,000 people get an email and their badges turned off”, instead we know they’re coming but it may be weeks before we know who. Which… look, I kinda get the intent behind those laws, but it’s not doing my anxiety any favors. So my plan is to change absolute nothing about my immediate/short-term plans and bottle up all that stress and anxiety behind a wall of denial and wishful thinking. I’m sure this is a good plan with no downsides.
In better news, I’m getting top surgery (breast augmentation) in two weeks. Nervous about it—honestly, more nervous than I’ve been letting on—especially since it’s my first time under general anesthesia. But also, my breast growth from the last 18 months of HRT was pretty perfunctory so I’m excited about it too, both for the body/dysphoria issues, and the hope that it’ll cut down on randos misgendering me despite the fact that I dress and present very femme.
And on that note, I shall conclude with a recent selfie I liked.
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Date: 2023-01-21 03:55 pm (UTC)Your selfie looks good. Your look is really coming together. I'm curious about the dark eyebrows in combination with the platinum hair. Is that the fashion right now? To me personally it looks like too much of a contrast.
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Date: 2023-01-21 04:32 pm (UTC)You're right that it makes for a bold contrast. Which I do like personally. And I haven't exactly been making a lot of subtle aesthetic choices anyway, so it fits there. I also think that it actually opens up more color choices, especially for eye makeup, that I wouldn't be as confident about otherwise. So I've been leaning into it a bit more since then.