5AM II

One Day at a Time

I try not to give more than one entry the same name, thus the "II" in the title, since I’ve had an entry (probably way back sometime) titled "5AM" already.

It is indeed 5AM.  We’ve got some major thunderstorms about to bear down on us.  I’ve been able to hear the thunder since 3AM when it woke me up.  Couldn’t get back to sleep.  Now 5AM and they are still so slow moving it hasn’t started raining yet.  I’m guessing from radar that 6-7AM will be when it hits the worst.  Hopefully they hold together and are pretty nasty.  I’d hate to think I lost sleep tonight only to watch a dud.  At least if it storms big my lost sleep will be worth the show, perhaps.  Right now thunder is just frequent and loud enough to keep me awake but not good enough to make things interesting yet.

I figured while I was up I may as well be productive, so I stuffed all of the AA checks written for this month into envelopes.  Ridiculous, monotonous work.  It gets annoying.  So does writing checks.  There are several we have to write.  I am so used to paying online but with this AA account we have to do things the old fashioned way.  For one, I don’t think my group would agree to having a check card (not as secure-thinking from standpoint of getting lost or whatever-and it would be more likely abused-not by me of course but the potential is there) and even if they did, I’m not sure these service branches of AA would have any way to take donations electronically.  I could be wrong.

I’ve said it before, working full time is killing me.  And it’s not the number of hours, it’s the irregularity of hours.  I need a regular schedule, going to bed at the same time everyday, waking up at the same time, etc.  Not possible when some days you have to be at work at 7AM and some days you work until midnight.  12AM to 7AM is the only block of time where I almost never have to work.  I have to say almost, simply because there have been rare occasions (new release parties, overnight mod resets, etc) where I have had to work.  Not at this store though.  That was all at North Augusta.  Bottom line, I’m not getting enough sleep.  This is the most annoying thing.  And today is my day off but instead of sleeping in, catching up on sleep, I am stuck awake due to the storms, and I have a dentist appointment at 8AM.  This appointment is my last scheduled work.  I will finally be done with the expense and the work, for now.  Should be free from late morning on, today.  Maybe I can nap later.

I feel as though I’m getting fat (I can feel belly fat starting to sag around my waist but the scale still says I’m under 150lb).  Mainly due to lack of sleep.  When I don’t get enough sleep, I eat more because I am awake more hours of the day.  Also, I tend to excercise less because I’m too tired to excercise.

Rain has started.  Gotta go.

Hope I can make it through the morning on 2 hours sleep, 3 hours, whatever it was I got.

Damn, I hope my dentist gets some sleep, I don’t want him to screw up on me this morning.

-AR

PS:  Was going to do a huge entry on this but fuck it.  No time.  The 25th was exactly 2 years since I cut my hair last.  Milestone.  It’s pretty long.  Sorry, no pics.  My life is boring these days because Walmart owns me.  So too are my entries lately (boring).