Since I work nights, I don't get home until 2 or 3 at night. At which point I make myself a dinner and watch a show to wind down before I'm able to go to sleep. So then I really don't get to bed until 4 or 5 am to which end I have to take Advil PM in order to fall asleep since I'm still so wired from work. THEN that means that I won't wake up until 1 or 2 in the afternoon!
I'll admit that when I was a teenager I would take full advantage of my youth and saturdays and sleep in until my mother came to wake me up around 11:30 in the afternoon, but my body had gotten to the maturity where I couldn't really sleep past 9:30. I had "sleeper's guilt" for wasting so much of the day.
But now I have it ten fold! When I wake up, all I have time to do is eat something, usually a breakfast item even though it's way past lunch. Pack a meal "lunch" and get ready for work before I run out the door to catch a bipolar bus that's usually too early or extremely late. And because of the undependable buses, I have to take the bus that will get me there 45 min to a half hour before I actually start.
So let's do the math:
A Normal Day with an 8 Hour Shift
Wake up at 1:30
Work at 5:30
Bus at 4:15
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leaves me 2 and some change to get shower, cook lunch, and get ready
Work until 2
Bus home at 2:10
Bus doesn't come until 2:35
Bus arrives home at 3:10
Fix dinner and eat at 3:30
Bed by 5
Asleep by 5:45
Wake to repeat cycle at 1
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equals 8 hours of restless sleep
I need to go to bed... But I just needed to explain the lack of blogging.
Soon to come: Star Wars Weekend
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