Elle Vampa

When things go horrible, I imagine that’ll never end. But when things go great, I fear the inevitable decline in happiness is lurking around every corner I turn.

The last few weeks have been busy, but good. Did I say good? I meant great!

I started my new job and am loving every minute of it. My team is slightly OCD’ed (like me!) and a teensy bit nuts (like me!), and inclusive (like me!).

I am treated as a full member of the team – even if I myself still feel a bit like being an ugly duckling among swans. I have some growth left in me, but I try.

Plus, all the people I said “no” to have finally got the message: one of them has started an application for “official help” from the local government. The other one has also accepted my resignation, albeit reluctantly.

So… All’s great, right!?

For a second, I got worried I might have to close down this blog before the year has ended. I mean, what if I’m no longer a loser queen?

Then the Big Dip happened.

No, no, it was not unhappiness lurking around a corner that finally got to me.

It was my phone dropping from my back pocket.

Straight into a (thankfully yet unused) toilet.

With a SPLASH of its own and a shriek from me, my SIM and memory cards drowned a sorrowful death…

And so I spent the rest of my otherwise relaxing and Great Day drying phone parts, installing a new mobile with zero cooperation from Google whatsoever, and fighting that common feeling of not quite being on top of things At All.

So, have no fear.

This loser queen is not going anywhere any time soon ;) (especially not with a phone in my back pocket!)