Do you ever feel like there just aren’t enough hours
in the day? When you are on the
graveyard shift and asleep most of the daylight hours, I can be tough to
squeeze in all you need to do before business closing time comes.
I know some of my struggles lately has been with
time management and fitting in the daily needs before I have to be to
work. On days off it is fitting it all
in before the stores close for the day. If
we didn’t have to factor in the longer commute to/from my parent’s house, it
might not feel more doable.
I ended up missing my WW meeting last Thursday due to
the many errands we needed to run before all of the stores closed. Since my WW meeting was in Nampa, it didn’t
make sense to drive to Boise only to return to Nampa for my meeting just go
back to Boise to finish up or errands.
So I made the decision to skip my meeting. I made it to a Monday evening meeting thinking this might work better as I have to work that night. This would free up a day off and make me feel
less stressed to fit in a meeting and errands on days off.
We are at the point where our new house has
officially been locked and we need to check a key in/out at the CBH office in
order to get inside and continue to check up on the progress. I am glad our house is locked and safe from
theft and vandalism. However, the CBH
office hours aren’t as friendly to graveyard hours. I mapped the route from my parent’s house,
to the CBH office, to the new house, back to the CBH office, and then back to
my parent’s house. That was a round-trip
of 1.5 hours, which doesn’t include the time spent at the new house looking it
all over. I get off work at 6am and have
to be back to work at 8pm. We usually
sleep until 3:30pm. Clearly we have to
bump up the wake-up time to fit it all in.
When you add trying to get to Curves, which closes at 7pm, the drive
time to/from there, and the time to get ready to go to work… oh man it sure
does feel hectic!
When I am at work all night I do have use of the
treadmill so that is a plus in my favor.
When I am at my parent’s house during a night off I miss having the
treadmill and workout DVDs from our house.
In my own home, I am able to workout at midnight and not disrupt
anybody. I can still do a workout at my
parent’s home as I am sure there is plenty on Amazon Prime. Or better yet, I could buy a WATP DVD for my
iPad. I could put that to good use in
the late night hours
Life will always seem hectic and while I’m used to
navigating the graveyard shift pretty well and making it all work, I’ve not
been displaced from my usual home environment.
I am working with Kenyon to come up with a way to fit it all in. We actually contacted the CBH office and
found out there is another way to check the key in/out so that was great
news! I am changing days off mid-July. I guess we had better come up with a plan
that works now and will work in a month from now.
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