Taking It Easy

Physical and mental strain on one's self is inevitable. Yes. It happened to me. Again. A few weeks back, I was really feeling the strain of my 11 x 4 (11 hours by 4 days per week) schedule. I feel like I was crawling through my shift. Every after one, I felt so tired. All I wanted to do was go home and sleep. Thank god, that was usually the case except for some unplanned instances. But the bottomline is, I needed some rest.

So, I asked my soooper generous and gorgeous friend, Gwen, to swap shifts with me even for a month. Happy me, she agreed. So here I am now, enjoying my new normal shift (This is only applicable for people who work the graveyard shift) of 8PM to 5AM. Yey for me! This is a less toxic shift since there are less people who need help. All I gotta do is work on my daily tasks and that's about it. (Thank again, Gwennie!!!)

As the days go by (2 weeks to be exact), I can really feel some of the wellness coming back. Little by little, the energy that I once shown for work started to be there again. My attitude of do-it-now-and-definitely-not-tomorrow is indeed here again. I can feel it. The only problem is my productivity is being compromised. Why? It's because there are fewer service tickets to be processed and by the time more come in, I'm outta the office. But it's cool. I think my teammates and I will be able to work something out for these coming 2 weeks.

After our month-long swap, I'm headed to the beach for some R & R. It's gonna be a 3 day retreat that seems to be very promising. When I get back, I'll have my old 11 x 4 schedule. That's fine. I think I'm ready for that again. I wish I could have the time adjusted an hour earlier though. I'll have that addressed as soon as the proper authority comes in tomorrow. (*ehem* A)

Aahhh. I just thought about what I did. I felt the exhaustion and I properly handled it. I think I'm getting better at this taking-care-of-myself thing. Kudos to me.