It feels like its been forever since Ive updated my journal! Ive been extremely tired since I started working the new job.
Here is the lowdownI am now working full-time after only working from home part-time for the past 13 months or so. I got a job at a call center for a security system monitoring station. Think places like Crime Alert, Bay Alarm, RFI, etc. I am the one who calls the PD and FD when big bad signals go off.
I had a job like this about 10 years ago, so during my most recent job search, I thought I would submit my resume to every alarm company I could find in the South Bay that I found on the net. Two got back to me and one hired me.
The pay and benefits are decent, which eventually will help my financial woes. A girl I used to work with 10 years ago at the other call center job works at this place. She stayed in the industry. At the old job, I trained her. Now, she is training me. Such poetry in life.
The only thing is that I have to get up about 4:45 to 5am five days a week now. I get off at 3pm, which is nice, BUT I am completely fatigued by 5pm, which makes me act goofy, loopy and seems to lead to sobbing out of sheer desperation for sleep. I am trying to come right home and take an hour nap so I dont freak out Brian with my craziness. (Side note: I am not just a total freak. I have Lupus and not getting enough rest leaves me in a lot of pain and very emotionally weak. Im trying to figure out a way to adjust my schedule to accommodate for my symptoms, but I havent quite figured it out yet.)
I have gone from being up all night to having to go to bed by 10:30pm at the latest. This makes me very sad because I am a night person. I said I was okay with day shift only so I could have some time in the day to see Brian. Otherwise, I wouldve preferred the night shift.
One sad effect of my new schedule is not being able to go to poetry in downtown San Jose on Monday nights at the Brit. (www.sanjosepoetryslam.com) We did go to the Finals, which were great, and I wanted to start going again. I miss it. Now, I am so tired from work that I cant even imagine going out.
I am going to yet another dental appt. this Monday. This is the first one without Brian there by my side to take care of me when I cry afterwards in the car on the way home. (Brian is going to Phoenix for 4 days for a friends graduation. He leaves tomorrow morning.) The only good part about having a dental appt. is that I get to only work 7am to 10am on Monday and then go home and nap. Perhaps this means I can attend poetry after all. I hear Mike McGee is back in town. Gotta get myself one of his hugs!! I hope I am rested enough to go.
.to be continued
Here is the lowdownI am now working full-time after only working from home part-time for the past 13 months or so. I got a job at a call center for a security system monitoring station. Think places like Crime Alert, Bay Alarm, RFI, etc. I am the one who calls the PD and FD when big bad signals go off.
I had a job like this about 10 years ago, so during my most recent job search, I thought I would submit my resume to every alarm company I could find in the South Bay that I found on the net. Two got back to me and one hired me.
The pay and benefits are decent, which eventually will help my financial woes. A girl I used to work with 10 years ago at the other call center job works at this place. She stayed in the industry. At the old job, I trained her. Now, she is training me. Such poetry in life.
The only thing is that I have to get up about 4:45 to 5am five days a week now. I get off at 3pm, which is nice, BUT I am completely fatigued by 5pm, which makes me act goofy, loopy and seems to lead to sobbing out of sheer desperation for sleep. I am trying to come right home and take an hour nap so I dont freak out Brian with my craziness. (Side note: I am not just a total freak. I have Lupus and not getting enough rest leaves me in a lot of pain and very emotionally weak. Im trying to figure out a way to adjust my schedule to accommodate for my symptoms, but I havent quite figured it out yet.)
I have gone from being up all night to having to go to bed by 10:30pm at the latest. This makes me very sad because I am a night person. I said I was okay with day shift only so I could have some time in the day to see Brian. Otherwise, I wouldve preferred the night shift.
One sad effect of my new schedule is not being able to go to poetry in downtown San Jose on Monday nights at the Brit. (www.sanjosepoetryslam.com) We did go to the Finals, which were great, and I wanted to start going again. I miss it. Now, I am so tired from work that I cant even imagine going out.
I am going to yet another dental appt. this Monday. This is the first one without Brian there by my side to take care of me when I cry afterwards in the car on the way home. (Brian is going to Phoenix for 4 days for a friends graduation. He leaves tomorrow morning.) The only good part about having a dental appt. is that I get to only work 7am to 10am on Monday and then go home and nap. Perhaps this means I can attend poetry after all. I hear Mike McGee is back in town. Gotta get myself one of his hugs!! I hope I am rested enough to go.
.to be continued