Overnight ramblings from more overtime...
I keep fluctuating between feeling very efficient and very lost. While the main reason I took these overnight shifts was for yet more overtime, it also gives me a dedicated timeslot in order to organize what else I need to do in order to keep up afloat. There's been calendars and colored pens and a new blue legal pad of what we need/want and how we can get there. It reminds me so much of my time in the Valley except now there's a man and a cat relying on me for food and shelter. Before, it was just me and Wawa all the time.
I finally finished the work on the condo today, having carpets finished and the cable man. I also got the kitchen professionally cleaned and two new toilets installed. I finished up the day by preparing a Halloween box for Momma (and Da-ee). She's in the hospital after going into nursing care because of a serious infection. I've spent the last week calling nurses because my father continues to go into a tailspin and alarm the female members of my family. But she's stable and he's- stabilizing, I guess. I made plane ticket arrangements for November, taking advantage of the work schedule I should be working and spending four nights down there and three up here. It'll be a rough couple of weeks, but it's very much necessary.
We'll be moving the furniture out of Mr. Fidget's apartment tomorrow, putting it into the condo for my parents to use. The idea is for myself and Kayrin to eventually kidnap my parents and Socks, flying them north into a newly renovated condo with their "son-in-law"'s father's belongings until I can close up Florida for good. Da-ee's been having repairs done to the house, so maybe it'll sell relatively quickly once she recovers from the hospital.
There's been a lot of just passing Fidget in the night. With the amount of overtime I've been pulling, along with it being swing shift, I haven't seen him too much. He's excelling at school, which is fabulous. I'm glad he's so impassioned and happy with what he is doing. We've become very much of a clockwork couple, where I work these asisine hours and he takes care of the housework. We've experienced hiccups here and there, but it's new roles for us. We're going to be celebrating Halloween with some friends of ours soon, so it'll be nice to get away and not think of crisis work or budgets for a few days.
I am thisclose in applying to the Board. I finally got my supervisor's information, so I need to print everything off, get a 2x2 picture of myself, have it notarized, then send it off. I'm both excited and terrified. It's been such a long haul, and we're coming to the end of this year when we had projected our monies running out. I'm hoping getting off the application will still keep us on track for my having a counselor license in January, maybe. If not, I'll just continue to work a lot of overtime amid trying to move my parents north.
We've rolled over on the witching hour, which is actually 0400 when you work overnights. The body naturally wants to enter into a REM cycle, no matter how long you've worked midnight shifts. I wasn't able to really sleep yesterday, though I came home exhausted from my errands. I dozed for a bit, then woke up to have a Come-to-Jesus conversation with Fidget. After he made awesome chili, I took a cat nap and basically snoozed for fifteen minutes on the couch before having to report tonight. Those possible six glorious hours of sleep tomorrow (today?) are going to be amazing whenever I get to them...
... and then I'll get up, move some furniture, and report tomorrow.
I finally finished the work on the condo today, having carpets finished and the cable man. I also got the kitchen professionally cleaned and two new toilets installed. I finished up the day by preparing a Halloween box for Momma (and Da-ee). She's in the hospital after going into nursing care because of a serious infection. I've spent the last week calling nurses because my father continues to go into a tailspin and alarm the female members of my family. But she's stable and he's- stabilizing, I guess. I made plane ticket arrangements for November, taking advantage of the work schedule I should be working and spending four nights down there and three up here. It'll be a rough couple of weeks, but it's very much necessary.
We'll be moving the furniture out of Mr. Fidget's apartment tomorrow, putting it into the condo for my parents to use. The idea is for myself and Kayrin to eventually kidnap my parents and Socks, flying them north into a newly renovated condo with their "son-in-law"'s father's belongings until I can close up Florida for good. Da-ee's been having repairs done to the house, so maybe it'll sell relatively quickly once she recovers from the hospital.
There's been a lot of just passing Fidget in the night. With the amount of overtime I've been pulling, along with it being swing shift, I haven't seen him too much. He's excelling at school, which is fabulous. I'm glad he's so impassioned and happy with what he is doing. We've become very much of a clockwork couple, where I work these asisine hours and he takes care of the housework. We've experienced hiccups here and there, but it's new roles for us. We're going to be celebrating Halloween with some friends of ours soon, so it'll be nice to get away and not think of crisis work or budgets for a few days.
I am thisclose in applying to the Board. I finally got my supervisor's information, so I need to print everything off, get a 2x2 picture of myself, have it notarized, then send it off. I'm both excited and terrified. It's been such a long haul, and we're coming to the end of this year when we had projected our monies running out. I'm hoping getting off the application will still keep us on track for my having a counselor license in January, maybe. If not, I'll just continue to work a lot of overtime amid trying to move my parents north.
We've rolled over on the witching hour, which is actually 0400 when you work overnights. The body naturally wants to enter into a REM cycle, no matter how long you've worked midnight shifts. I wasn't able to really sleep yesterday, though I came home exhausted from my errands. I dozed for a bit, then woke up to have a Come-to-Jesus conversation with Fidget. After he made awesome chili, I took a cat nap and basically snoozed for fifteen minutes on the couch before having to report tonight. Those possible six glorious hours of sleep tomorrow (today?) are going to be amazing whenever I get to them...
... and then I'll get up, move some furniture, and report tomorrow.