i've been here before; it wasn't much fun

Work stress.

Nothing's happened yet, but I can feel it like a wave about to crash over me.

End of year and I have a problem on my plate that could be easy (if they're willing to accept possible ambiguity and fix the issues manually) or really really awful (if they need it to be absolutely correct).

One of the managers said something to me that's got me worried.

One of the people looking through CVs noted that I don't have any 'certification'.

We have performance appraisals in the next two weeks.

And I have a big holiday coming up in August.

I'm always nervous about big holidays thanks to my last permanent job, which made me redundant just before I went away on a month-long holiday to Europe in 2011. (That was a bad time, too: lost my job, my old cat died, lots of stress.)

Right now, my abiding thought in the midst of all this is: Thank God we didn't mortgage ourselves to the hilt.

*breathes carefully and without hyperventilating*

updates: issues of DOOM and quilting group

I have a fix for the issue of DOOM. Just have to wait and see if the customer will accept it.

Quilting group is contemplating a new name: Sydney Modern Sewists & Quilters - nicknamed "The Sydney Mod SQuad!" (This is quilting; mum-puns abound.)

I'm still a bit tense, although not as bad as I was six hours ago. I just want to go to bed and get a full night's sleep.

Except that Quiltcon West 2016 - a big quilters' convention in Pasadena, CA - starts sign-ups at 7am PST Thursday 25th. Which is 12am Friday 26th around here.

I'm presently debating whether or not to go - my quilting friends can't, and the person whose workshops I would most like to attend I already saw at the quilting retreat earlier this year...

And there's the job uncertainty, too...

Finally, I don't think I can write "treats" for the mcu_aufest: they keep turning into several thousand word epics...