Nesting at work

It took me around 16 minutes to walk to the office.  I think what slows me down is waiting for the traffic lights.  I have three big intersections to cross with a lot of traffic.  I wore my brown sneakers and socks with my navy blue suit/skirt and tan trench coat today.  When I looked in the mirror, I reminded myself of a maid in a fancy hotel.  All dressed up in a dark suit with stockings and ugly sneakers.  Haha, oh well. At least my feet were comfy. 

Today was nesting day for me in the office.  I asked the Admins (executive assistants?) to order me some office supplies like spiral notebooks, binders, sorting trays and they told me that they would get me a "Starter" office package and order me some hard cover spiral notebooks. One of the admins had a few very nice hard cover notebooks that she gave me and I was very excited.  Office supplies really make me happy.  The starter package arrived and it had two notebooks, flags, post its, calculator, ruler, stapler, hole puncher, pens, highlighters, pencil sharpener, all the good stuff.  I took a coffee mug from the kitchen and arranged all my pens and pencils in there.  My trays arrived and I stacked them up and put my notebooks in.  I also got a few guidance books for IFRS, Irish GAAP, and Irish legislation on Companies that I will be working on and stacked them on my shelf.  While all this is probably boring to everyone else, it felt good to make the desk, even if it might be temporary, feel like it is mine.  I got my required trainings done today too.  I felt very accomplished and tomorrow I have a group meeting in the morning and I have a lot of reading to do to get caught up on guidance.  I also meet with my main boss tomorrow who was meeting with a client in London for the past two days.  I'm sure I'll start working on things after I meet with him.  I also met a girl today from the US who is working on my floor. She is not in my department and she is here for a different reason than me but it was nice to meet someone new. 

After work I went on Grafton Street to search for flats to wear instead of my sneakers. My feet are pretty small so its hard finding shoes that will fit. I went to a few stores with no luck and as I was heading home I decided to venture into Clarks and found two very nice flats on SALE in my size! They were both only 15 Euros! Now I don't have to look like a maid anymore!

It was a good day today and my goal for the rest of the week is to get to know more people around me.  Hope the rest of the week keeps gradually improving!

This weekend is the start of the August Bank Holiday and off we go to Edinburgh, Scotland!!

Here is a picture of ducks I had in my training that I thought were cute and reminded me of Connor as he is obsessed with ducks and pictures I found on the internet of one of my new flats.



Quack! Quack!




Hope these flats are comfy!