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So I totally just worked 6 out of the last 8 days. I thought I was going to die.
Ok, I’m exaggerating just a bit. It actually wasn’t as bad as I thought, and now at least the worst is over.
I’ve done all my training shifts, and after one more orientation type thing on Monday, I’ll have some more control over my schedule. Meaning I’ll be doing no more than 3 shifts a week and I won’t sign up for the shifts that interfere too much with our family routine. That’s one big advantage to being extra, on-call help and I’m not going to waste it.
And as I’m learning the routine on the units, I’m figuring out that, to a certain extent at least, I can eat some of my own food and pee when I please.
Unfortunately, there is NO solution to the lack of internet access. And get this, because I work behind several thick walls, I don’t even get cell phone reception inside the building. There goes my plan of getting an iphone and maybe at least squeezing in a twitter fix on my break.
At the risk of sounding like a spoiled whiny baby, I have to be honest and tell you that I am really mourning the loss of having so much free time, and having so much time to hang out with my husband.
I mean, I don’t even want to tell you how disgusting my house is right now. Or what I contemplated eating for breakfast when I realized how bare the fridge was. Or how much fast food my husband has been fed this last week because I have done zero cooking. Or when the last day I worked out was.
But more than all that, I feel like I’m so out of touch with everyone. I got used to having almost constant contact and interaction with my friends – both real-life and online. I loved having as much time as I wanted in the morning to check twitter and facebook and read blogs.
Do you know what my google reader says right now? 91. How did this happen? Oh, I know. I haven’t read (um, or written) a single blog in over a week.
I used to wake up to a nice 8 or 9 in my google reader. Plenty of time for me to click on your blog, read all the comments, see if you have new followers or any cute new gadgets on your page, and then actually leave you a comment.
Yes, I’m sometimes guilty of lurking but most of the time I try to comment because for one, I pretty much always have something to say and for two, comments make me happy and so I’m guessing other people like getting comments too.
I have a dozen blogs in my head, including an idea to start a new category of recipe blogs, but there’s been no time to write. I used to respond to most of my comments – I know not everyone does that, but I started blogging on myspace, and I got used to that whole having a conversation in blog comments thing – but lately I’ve been forgetting. That’s when I know I’m tired and overwhelmed – when I straight up forget to do something I really like.
But now that I’m getting a new routine figured out, I’ll be around a lot more and will be neglecting my blog – and my readers – a lot less.
And now I’m going to go clear out that google reader and catch up on what’s been happening with all my peeps.
Right after I read my new smutty fanfic chapters.
Well I'm glad to hear that you get to pee when you want.
smutty fanfic rocks. if only WA would post a new chapter, I feel like I was left hanging…
I too am glad you can pee when you need instead of when you are told. Hopefully that will help with the IBS issues as well. And don't be embarassed about meals, I think a lot of people have those kinds of weeks even when they already have an established routine. You're just being normal.
Peeing whenever you want is an important thing you know. Some of us have to wait until our customers let us run off the sales floor. And of course, as soon as you get into the bathroom, someone is paging you.
Good luck getting into a routine!
I hope you find more free time soon! But at least your priorities are in order- smutty fanfic chapters first!