Day Off!

I finally got a day off of work again! Yay! With a whole day at my disposal, I decided to tackle the job of switching this site to a teal/aqua background rather than the brownish-color background that it had been sporting since the last major redesign. I like the aqua much better and an occasional change is good once-in-a-while. While looking through my site, if any of you loyal readers happen to notice something I forgot to change, please let me know!

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Daylight Comin', Me Wan' Go Home

One of the girls at work quit back at the beginning of July. She was the one who worked the night shift, and I was asked to take her place. I don't mind the night shift at all — hey, I am a Night Owl at heart — and it is great that I am now on a regular, straight shift rather than doing the crazy rotation of shifts that I had been working so far.

Furthermore, since her quitting put us one woman short on the team, I offered to fill-in the deficit until someone else could be interviewed and hired. So, I've been working 7 days a week for the past 3-ish weeks. Since I am now working as an hourly employee for the first time in 27 years, I am actually getting overtime pay for part of the week! That rocks! Of course, my pay rate is minimum wage, (the first job I've had since High School that pays so little) so even with 56 hours-per-week the paychecks are not the best in the world. As a couple of my friends keep reminding me, it is more than I was making when I was unemployed.

Last night, my manager asked me to start training a new employee that was hired for our team. It looks as if I might actually start having a day (or two) off each week again! Yay!

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Too tired to sleep

Ever been "too tired to sleep?" That's where I am now, and have been quite a bit lately. I went to bed a while ago, almost exactly 12 hours from the time I have to leave for work again. I figured I could sleep seven or eight hours, then get up to shower, fix my husband's supper, eat together, do the dishes, and get out the door. Instead, I sleep a scant two hours and then pop wide-awake. I've been up two hours now, and only have about four hours left before I have to be back up and in the shower with something simmering on the stove. "Too tired to sleep" sucks. Dammit.

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12... 10... OMG!

Last year, those of you who follow my blog regularly know that I lost quite a bit of weight. Over the winter, however, I could not bring myself to brave the cold weather to continue my walks around the neighborhood, so yoga was my only exercise during the cold months. Sadly, I re-gained about five of the pounds that I had lost last year.

Now, that extra five pounds is still there, mind you, right at my waistline. However, something is happening because I am fitting into even smaller clothes than I was able to wear after losing the weight last year!

I just got home from TJ Maxx, where I bought a pair of denim capri pants and a denim skirt. The capri pants are a size 12 and they fit like a dream. Yeppers, size 12! I had to get a size 10 in the skirt because a size 12 was falling off me, even buttoned! I haven't worn clothes this small since high school! Whoo hooo!

How this is possible with that extra five pounds and still a little "poochiness" in my tummy, I have no clue. I guess my body is redistributing something, somewhere. I refuse to look a frikkin' gift horse in the mouth, though, and will wear my new size-10 and size-12 clothes with a big smile on my face!

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