One part Monday Shenanigans, one part me time…
Left entirely to my own devices, I doubt I'd wake up at the crack of dawn every morning. But being on a relatively consistent shift that starts at 6 a.m. for almost two years now has made me more and more of a morning person.
It's to the point now where the only reasons I won't wake up sometime before 9 a.m. on any day of the week are a) if I've been out too late with friends the night before or b) I'm trying to sleep in on Saturday so I can stay up until my weekend shift ends at 1:30 a.m.
I've started to make it known around the office lately that I'm ready, willing and able to ditch my crazy late shift in favor of five weekdays on the crazy early shift. If the staffing stars ever align and that happens, I'll not only have a normal weekend, but perhaps more importantly, I'll have a much more consistent daily rhythm.
But one thing I'd leave behind is the joy of having Mondays off. Lately, I've been doing enough crazy swings from morning person to night owl toward the end of each week that, by Monday, I'm wiped out.
But today was one of those rare Mondays when I was on an even keel, woke up in the morning, got a lot done and had some fun along the way. These are the kind of Mondays I'll miss.
Today, I...
- stopped by work to catch an hourlong presentation from some Facebook folks who stopped by Corporate
- got gas and did grocery shopping
- made a delicious dinner in the Crock-Pot
- ran into co-workers everywhere
- scavenged for books and toys at the soon-to-be-shuttered Borders and Toys "R" Us in Rancho Mirage and Palm Desert, respectively
- read a little of one of those books, both at a park and with my feet in the pool at home
- rediscovered the world that exists east of Date Palm Drive
- saw the Sundance favorite Another Earth, which is now also an Indy favorite
- and picked up one more book at the mall while I was there.
And as impressed as I am with my solo version of Monday Shenanigans, I also realized that almost all of these things could've been done instead on a Sunday. Maybe someday...