This past Friday (December 10, 2021) marked my nine year Googleversary! Nobody makes a big deal out of nine year anniversaries but I have been all week! When I joined Google back in late 2012, I had a major case of imposter syndrome and felt that I needed to constantly…
It was a balmy July night in Bneid Al-Gar, a neighborhood in Kuwait City overlooking the Persian Gulf. Kuwait could be oppressively hot in the summer but I recall summer evenings being tolerably warm and sometimes nice. I loved Kuwait at night. …
Over the past year, I’ve written a lot about preparing for interviews for UXR positions. Here’s one spot where you can find all that content:
A few years ago, a friend mentioned how early in her tenure at a job her manager at the time told her that she needed to make herself easy to manage. We both found the request really funny, mostly due to its bluntness. …
I’m less than 10 days away from moving in and this past week was a flurry of progress. I made a trip to the house almost every day this week to approve various decisions.
The most exciting thing to see come together this week was all the progress on the…
Hello again! It’s time for me to update you on my home renovations in extraordinarily minute detail. It’s been two weeks since my last update … mostly because week 13 was very quiet but last week was very eventful.
With all the delays in materials due to the pandemic, scheduling…
We had a busy couple of weeks and the bathroom is slowly starting to look like a bathroom and not a construction zone. Here are updates from the last two weeks of renovations:
This week, the crew removed the old mailbox and installed a new one. The contractor had suggested…
I know you’ve been waiting with bated breath for the latest updates in my home renovations.
Not so much? :)
In any case, the past three weeks have been very busy with various projects and decisions. So busy that I’ve been tardy with my updates both here and on Instagram…
This week, the construction and tile crew got to work on the tile in the kitchen. I’m blessed in that the prior homeowner had done a lot of renovations to the home, especially in the kitchen. But I wasn’t in love with the kitchen backsplash or the kitchen pendants. A…
When I first started this publication/blog, my intention was to write about the process of renovating the house pretty regularly. Alas, between work, the actual renovations, and life . . . time got away from me. …
