Work has been very grueling this week. I had four days when I put more then 12 hours in, I had one no-show where I ended up taking the shift and I was awaken by four phones calls this morning (Saturday) between 7-8am. The busyness is because we have all three halls open now so we only have one person running each shift, which is hard on the newbies who are still making mistakes. Also we are full to capacity this weekend.
In North Hall we have both the contestants of a kids’ soccer tournament, plus a summer baseball league. This has been a good birth control experience for all of us because after dealing with all these screaming monsters I no longer want children. They are screaming and running down the hall ways, kicking the vending machines, locking themselves out of their rooms and trying to get the elevator stuck.
Then in West and East Hall we have the Special Olympics teams from across Alaska. The buses dropped them off in swarms and we weren’t exactly ready to handle it, but everything went okay. I was running back and forth between halls helping any way I could whether it was changing light bulbs or washing coffeemakers I did it. I had to let some people into their rooms not because their keys didn’t work but because they didn’t understand how their key cards worked. I am trying to rush around but the participants all wanted to start up conversations with me and its hard to walk away from them. Then whether I thought I could go back to my apartment I would get a call to come back to the halls. Crazy I tell ya! Hopefully after this weekend everything will die down. We won’t be full again like this. Plus I have vacation coming in two weeks when Stephen is coming. Can I tell you how excited I am!!!!
My only non work adventure this week was going to the mall. I got the chance to sneak away to the mall this morning to get my dad a present for father’s day. In the bottom floor, in the center of the mall here is an ice rink. You can see it from all three floors. A lot of people were ice skating. They were probably missing the cold weather and temperatures sky rocketed today to.....probably 60 something. I even got to take my jacket off today, whoooowho.
Oh and this sun thing all the time needs to stop soon. I go home from work at 11pm and its still bright as day out and I think everything is okay that A it’s normal to work that late and B it’s normal to be that light out. It totally throws off all concepts of time. Kristen and I were both fed up with the light coming from our shades that we each took our own solution. Kristen re-arranged all the furniture in her room so her bed was now facing the window. I put sheets of aluminum foil in my blinds to block out the sun. My plan was simpler and got the room darker but then when the heat kicks on from the vent the sheets of foil clang against the blinds making a loud nose and light show. I am definitely not the winner of life this week.
In North Hall we have both the contestants of a kids’ soccer tournament, plus a summer baseball league. This has been a good birth control experience for all of us because after dealing with all these screaming monsters I no longer want children. They are screaming and running down the hall ways, kicking the vending machines, locking themselves out of their rooms and trying to get the elevator stuck.
Then in West and East Hall we have the Special Olympics teams from across Alaska. The buses dropped them off in swarms and we weren’t exactly ready to handle it, but everything went okay. I was running back and forth between halls helping any way I could whether it was changing light bulbs or washing coffeemakers I did it. I had to let some people into their rooms not because their keys didn’t work but because they didn’t understand how their key cards worked. I am trying to rush around but the participants all wanted to start up conversations with me and its hard to walk away from them. Then whether I thought I could go back to my apartment I would get a call to come back to the halls. Crazy I tell ya! Hopefully after this weekend everything will die down. We won’t be full again like this. Plus I have vacation coming in two weeks when Stephen is coming. Can I tell you how excited I am!!!!
My only non work adventure this week was going to the mall. I got the chance to sneak away to the mall this morning to get my dad a present for father’s day. In the bottom floor, in the center of the mall here is an ice rink. You can see it from all three floors. A lot of people were ice skating. They were probably missing the cold weather and temperatures sky rocketed today to.....probably 60 something. I even got to take my jacket off today, whoooowho.
Oh and this sun thing all the time needs to stop soon. I go home from work at 11pm and its still bright as day out and I think everything is okay that A it’s normal to work that late and B it’s normal to be that light out. It totally throws off all concepts of time. Kristen and I were both fed up with the light coming from our shades that we each took our own solution. Kristen re-arranged all the furniture in her room so her bed was now facing the window. I put sheets of aluminum foil in my blinds to block out the sun. My plan was simpler and got the room darker but then when the heat kicks on from the vent the sheets of foil clang against the blinds making a loud nose and light show. I am definitely not the winner of life this week.
2 comments:
I suggest splurging on a dark blanket and tacking it over the windows. Works like a charm. Good luck!
Oops, that was from me.
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