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beansideWe're inching closer to the weekend! Two more days to go! I'm appreciating the weekends far more with this job than I did with IKEA. I think part of it is the new schedule. 9:30am to 6:00pm is proving difficult for me. Especially with my shoulder eroding my level of cope, by the time 6:00pm rolls around, I'm exhausted. Or maybe it's not just my shoulder. Maybe the job is just harder than I expected? Whatever, by the end of the workday, I'm wiped. It makes being ready for game at 7:00 more challenging, but mostly makes me feel like I've worked the whole day.
My day starts at 6am and the first hour is devoted to waking up and doing my daily post. My sister gets up around the same time, and she can be chatty, so sometimes I get less done than I'd like, and it carries over after 7:15, when she leaves. Then, I have a little bit of quiet time where I can finish up my post and relax. Around 7:45ish, Jess wakes up, and takes the dog for a walk. Usually while they're out, I get dad up. Then, from approximately 8:15am to I start work, I have time to do whatever, usually punctuated by dad needing this or that. (Of course, immediately upon typing that at 7am, dad wanted to get up, so there goes my morning.) Then, I start work. I have two 10 minute breaks and a 40min lunch. At lunch we get dad out of bed into the wheelchair. Sometimes, he'll stay up til my second break, sometimes he wants to go back before I finish lunch. Those days, I actually only get 10-15 minutes of my lunch break. If he waits to go back, the second of my breaks is eaten up by that.
I like my job. I enjoy helping people, and I don't mind being on the phone. Most of the people I speak to are really friendly and sweet. But it's more tiring than I remember it being when I worked at IKEA. Probably because IKEA's customers were mostly assholes, so I didn't put as much energy into it? Or maybe because my cope is low from the shoulder pain? I have no idea.
The other thing I miss is having a couple of hours before game so that if I end the day with a headache, I have a couple of hours, and can take a 45min nap to settle it down. I had to cancel on last night's game because I was hurting and I didn't have any time to be in the quiet. I was going to butch it through, but then my sister was talky, and I started getting overstimulated, and the thought of putting on a headset and having people talking sounded like being stabbed in the brain.
Anyhow, that was long winded to say that I'm tired and achy and a bit burned out on caretaking. Now, onto the promised fanvid of the day. Today, we're taking a brief break from Marvel, and heading over to Leverage with a vid of the threesome from the original series.
And on that note, I'm going to go scrounge something for breakfast. Everyone have an excellent Thursday!
My day starts at 6am and the first hour is devoted to waking up and doing my daily post. My sister gets up around the same time, and she can be chatty, so sometimes I get less done than I'd like, and it carries over after 7:15, when she leaves. Then, I have a little bit of quiet time where I can finish up my post and relax. Around 7:45ish, Jess wakes up, and takes the dog for a walk. Usually while they're out, I get dad up. Then, from approximately 8:15am to I start work, I have time to do whatever, usually punctuated by dad needing this or that. (Of course, immediately upon typing that at 7am, dad wanted to get up, so there goes my morning.) Then, I start work. I have two 10 minute breaks and a 40min lunch. At lunch we get dad out of bed into the wheelchair. Sometimes, he'll stay up til my second break, sometimes he wants to go back before I finish lunch. Those days, I actually only get 10-15 minutes of my lunch break. If he waits to go back, the second of my breaks is eaten up by that.
I like my job. I enjoy helping people, and I don't mind being on the phone. Most of the people I speak to are really friendly and sweet. But it's more tiring than I remember it being when I worked at IKEA. Probably because IKEA's customers were mostly assholes, so I didn't put as much energy into it? Or maybe because my cope is low from the shoulder pain? I have no idea.
The other thing I miss is having a couple of hours before game so that if I end the day with a headache, I have a couple of hours, and can take a 45min nap to settle it down. I had to cancel on last night's game because I was hurting and I didn't have any time to be in the quiet. I was going to butch it through, but then my sister was talky, and I started getting overstimulated, and the thought of putting on a headset and having people talking sounded like being stabbed in the brain.
Anyhow, that was long winded to say that I'm tired and achy and a bit burned out on caretaking. Now, onto the promised fanvid of the day. Today, we're taking a brief break from Marvel, and heading over to Leverage with a vid of the threesome from the original series.
And on that note, I'm going to go scrounge something for breakfast. Everyone have an excellent Thursday!
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Date: 2024-05-17 01:00 am (UTC)so many thanks for posting that vid - I've always loved it, and enjoyed watching it again!