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jon_chaissonThese last three 4am opens in a row has left me drained and exhausted. Usually they're not too bad and I'm fine by the end of them, but this entire weekend has been terrible. Mind you, it wasn't the customers or how busy it can get on those days, because I can handle that just fine. No, this is everything else in between...the 'if anything can go wrong it will go wrong' stuff. Saturday's seven-hour chaos when both bathrooms flooded. Saturday night's system outage that crashed the registers and caused my Sunday paperwork not to print, the being pulled away from my bookkeeping work for multiple reasons (customer assistance, break coverage, home shopping backup, etc) and another system outage today that crashed the registers and put the kibosh on any follow-up responsibilities I needed to work on. [They're not critical or essential, thankfully, but they're on the 'upper management says we need to do this' list. I'm sure I won't get in trouble.]
All that and I ended up causing us to bail out of going to the Santa Rosa symphony this afternoon because I just have no more energy or spoons to share. I feel guilty that I had to give that up, but A didn't seem to mind (she said she exhausted herself anyway by doing all the gardening this morning). Now, hopefully I'll be up for that one more shift tomorrow... it's thankfully 7-3:30 instead of 4am, but I'm not promising I'll be at peak.]
Creatively this past week has been kind of a bust due to the day job, but at the same time I've been allowing it to happen to save energy and not wear myself out. It's funny, really...I'm at the age where I'm finally saying 'yeah, I AM at that age now, perhaps going at a slower speed isn't all that bad' and not feeling guilty about it because it's actually a healthy decision! Still, I know I can do better so I'm going to start off the new month trying to do better with my creative output. We shall see!
All that and I ended up causing us to bail out of going to the Santa Rosa symphony this afternoon because I just have no more energy or spoons to share. I feel guilty that I had to give that up, but A didn't seem to mind (she said she exhausted herself anyway by doing all the gardening this morning). Now, hopefully I'll be up for that one more shift tomorrow... it's thankfully 7-3:30 instead of 4am, but I'm not promising I'll be at peak.]
Creatively this past week has been kind of a bust due to the day job, but at the same time I've been allowing it to happen to save energy and not wear myself out. It's funny, really...I'm at the age where I'm finally saying 'yeah, I AM at that age now, perhaps going at a slower speed isn't all that bad' and not feeling guilty about it because it's actually a healthy decision! Still, I know I can do better so I'm going to start off the new month trying to do better with my creative output. We shall see!
