A bit Blue... Adding some Pink...

Experiencing some tristesse here. The work-related situation I described some time ago has neither ameliorated, nor has any clarity been provided to my co-workers and me 'from higher hand'. I know that all this sounds vaguely descriptive. I'm afraid that - in order to avoid judicial complications - 'sort of vague' is what it has to be at the moment. I do not necessarily want to get dooced, but I still like you to have an idea of what is going on in my life. At work tensions build up, worries spread like oil leaks from a tanker that hit the iceberg we only see that little tip of.

Everyone at work reacts to this situation differently. The good thing is that in our little team we're generally very supportive of each other and that this situation has led us to grow closer together, meaning that we stand stronger now. Every dark cloud has its silver edge is what they say then, isn't it? Of course, and despite holding our breath awaiting what is coming up, precautionary steps are being taken. We're intelligent young women after all...

For me, the above is currently determining a lot of what I am doing as well as what I am able to do. Actually not only for me, but for my colleagues as well. It's a situation that throws all of us back and forward between different feelings ranging from self-empowerment to anger, but emotionally draining and leading to occasional watersheds is what it is in the end.

However, I'm putting in effort to add color to this big dark blue. Last weekend my self-declared 'big little sister' turned eleven years old on the eleventh of the eleventh month. I honored this very special moment, as well as her changing from a girl into a young teenager, by baking her a "cake in young ladies' style" as she desired to have it: