*sigh*

This chick right here … as in me, myself & I … is no spring chicken any longer.

This getting off work at 11 pm and going back in at 7 am is for the birds! My body is like, "What the hell? Seriously Sassy, what the HELLLLLLLLLLL!"

Last weekend wasn’t too bad. Today however is a different story. By all intents and purposes, I should have gotten enough rest last night. I was in bed by 11:40 pm. It would have been sooner but by the time I got my jammies on, face washed and myself ready for bed, The Child was still in a talkative mood. Come on kid, I have to go to bed! I finally got her calmed down enough so that we both could go to sleep.

You see, we had thunderstorms coming in late last night. And the weather alert radio kept going off with its warning alarms. So she was freaked that we were going to get a tornado. *sigh* I ended up doing a big no-no by turning the thing off because after it sounding the alarm twice in a 15 minute time frame, I was like, "Oh hell no! I have to get some sleep tonight." So I turned it off.

About 45 minutes after falling asleep, I hear hail pounding on the windows, We have the type of windows that you crank the handle, & the window opens out, therefore the screen is on the inside. So the screen was not able to block the hail. I finally ignore that sound long enough to fall back asleep, only to be woken up a few minutes later by thunder. *sigh* So in between the hail, the thunder and the sound of the heavy downpour of rain, I finally am able to block it all out long enough to fall back to sleep …

Only to be woken up by the sensation that I am drowning … because I couldn’t breath … because the power went out … thus causing my CPAP machine to stop working. *sigh* By the time the power came back on, the storm had moved past, and things were calm and as they should be, it was close to 2 am.

Cue my 5:50 am wake up alarm on my phone. I did not want to crawl out of bed. At all.

I stumble my way to the bathroom then to take the dog outside to potty. I come back, head back to the bathroom to wash my face & get ready for work.

Cue the bathroom door slowly creaking open …

"Good morning Mommy."

Seriously?

She had set her alarm so she could get up early to cook Daddy breakfast in bed. Since she is not allowed to cook without adult supervision, she knew that this would be the only time she’d have to cook him breakfast. *sigh* She even made him fresh squeezed orange juice … after I had to show her how.

I make it to work only for time to decide to stand still. Come on People. At least The Child isn’t dog-sitting today making me have to wait around an extra 2 hours for her. There is a God. Because you know she had a fit that I did that to her last weekend. The Child actually had the nerve to get mad at me for waiting around for her! I told her that it was my responsibility as a decent parent to hang around. Only pathetic excuses for parents would leave her alone in a hotel I just started working at, with guests I didn’t know very well, with employee’s I barely knew, baby sitting a dog for a woman I had only known 3 days. The Child should know me by now lol. 

So yeah, by the time 3 pm finally gets here, I get to go straight home. 

But Lord only knows what I will be going home to … 

I laid down law when I got offered the job that I would NOT be cooking dinner on Sundays so we shall see what’s what when I get home. Because we can’t afford to go any where …. 

This work shift is never going to end ….

Till next time ….  

 

 

 

 

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