Winter has set upon us with vengeance. The temperatures have been frigid and the wind chill serves to make being outside intolerable and down-right dangerous. I worked last night, running about in temperatures that were equivalent to around -15F. The wind chill advisory was in effect until around noon today. The temperatures climbed to around 13 with the wind chill hovering near zero all day. It was a good day to sleep, and sleep I did.
I made it home around 8:30 this morning and into bed a couple of hours later. I was up around 3pm. Wonder if my body clock is already getting conditioned to being up at that time to retrieve kiddos from the sitter's? That has become my routine for the last couple of weeks in settling back into working the night shift. Drop the kiddos to school and to the sitters, to bed around 10:00-10:30, awake around 3:00-3:15, retrieve from the sitter's, await the arrival of the big-'uns from school. Sort of funny how my body is adapting back to a routine that, though having been away from it for 2 1/2 years, I did for many, many years. The only difference being that now I have added melatonin in order to be able to sleep well during the day. It helps.
The biggest glitch in the system for the last couple of weeks has been that I have to be back in at 7pm. By the time I am relieved of the children, I have no time for a nap before work. Those 12-hour overnights are killer, given my age and medical conditions. Lemme tell ya that the frigid temps aren't any help in that scenario. My fibromyalgia was so acutely painful last week due to extreme changes in temperatures and humidity. Due to the limited amount of sleep that I was able to get during the days, there was no way that I could take my Flexeril before bed. By the time I got a day where I could take it and sleep, the muscles of my upper arms were acutely painful to light touch. We're not even going to talk about my shoulders and upper back. OUCH!!! Misery it was for a few days.
And, then I fell. Again. Thursday.
Running out, still groggy, to get the kiddos from the sitter's and tripped over the blade of a plastic toy snow shovel (belonging to the neighbor kids) near the back steps. I fell forward. Cut my lip and bruised my chin on the training wheel on one of the bikes (Not put away after the moderate temperatures disappeared last week.) I have a lump on the top of my head from the bolt that holds the rear wheel on the frame. I feel lucky not to have split my head open on it. I have a bad cut on my right hand but have no idea what I hit it on. My knees took a good bang into the semi-frozen mud. My arms are sooooooo sore from trying to break my fall. I realized the next day, when putting on my deodorant, that even my armpits hurt! Oy! Coupled with the flare in the fibromyalgia, my upper body feels like I will never be pain free again.
This pay period that began yesterday is going to be a much-longer two-weeks than the last. I have whittled my scheduled 102 hours down to 90 with a couple of changes. We'll see what happens with covering more call-offs. Oh, the joys of being the supervisor. LOL
Brian and I split the shift to cover last night's call off. Both of us had worked yesterday day shift. He had gone home and gotten a nap (luckily). I would have simply stayed through, but by the time I would have finished the overnight shift at 7am this morning, I would have been up for over 24 hours and worked 20 straight. Not a good scenario. So, he came at 7pm. I went home and napped until 12:30 and was back in before 2am. He and I do make a good team.
He put out the memo that I officially assume the supervisor position on 1 February but am the acting night shift supervisor until then. He told me he would contact accounting to make sure that my salary got retro-ed back to the time that I took over. I told him that he would do no such thing as I have both overtime and worked holiday pay during this current pay period.
I borrowed a couple of DVDs to watch this evening. Not sure if I will get to them or not. I am having a nice time crocheting and relaxing. Well, trying to relax. Some work things keep running through my brain. Not good. Maybe watching the movies while I crochet will help to keep them at bay.
A friend gave me a 30 day pass for my Pogo games account. I have yet to log-on and play. Pogo doesn't hold my interest these days. I have other things to do and can waste my time more productively on other projects. LOL
I am inclined to close this here and do just that.
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