First day back yesterday at the monastery after 16 days of carefree do-what-you-want living and the usual “Monday Morning Crawl” on the M62 motorway, the reason for all the traffic was that someone had “fallen” off a bridge on to the motorway on the other carriageway.
When I arrived at the monastery Shandy Pants assured me that the victim jumping off the bridge wasn’t a member of our employees unable to face another year here.
Its now Tuesday, I was going to write a post yesterday but “post Christmas depression” sapped away all my ideas so I thought I better leave it until the second day here.
I feel absolutely tired out after another sleepless night combined with the fact of getting here an hour early since Betty has developed the Christmas Flu that’s been going around.
Betty struggled through the day yesterday and I felt sorry for her, its hard enough first day back when you feel well but when you feel like crap on top its virtually impossible, but, since I have not been trained yet to cover wages she had to come in.
I really enjoyed AA last night with Uncle Buck, everyone had a bit of banter and I came away with a good feeling and this turned to a euphoria which kept me awake much of the night.
Today it’s really cold, about (-6 °C) I am told by Ms Bickerdyke who has just arrived and I am wondering what to do to entertain myself today with just a small handful of wagon drivers expected.
It’s now around dinnertime and I am eagerly eating my Chicken Salad sandwiches which Ms Bickerdyke kindly brought me back from her venture out into the cold.
Harry Potter has been in and jokingly told me to go stand in the naughty corner for not doing his tickets correctly, but I have promised him that my new years resolution is to be good and therefore “the naughty corner” should be not used much.
I said I wasn’t going to talk about work but you can’t help it when you spend 1/3rd of your life here, Father Bill keeps telling me he is coming down into despatch to learn how to print tickets so he can stand in when I am not here.
Other than that life is good at the moment, especially since I am trying my hardest to be really nice to everyone, I guess with my AA foundations it’s what I should be like anyway.
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well, after the first working day of the year done, it's downhill from here! strange week for me. i was going to work, but then hubby decided to go on a training course (which is a week long) so i'm home another week with the bean. can't leave a 12-year old to his own devices now can i?!?!?!? but home is quiet, what with hubby gone, and the guest also left, so serenity and silence is seeping back into me slowly so i should be ready for 2009 by monday. good to see you up and about though! stay well dearest michael!
It sounds like your first day back wasn't too bad. At least you have an easy day today. And the chicken salad sounds good.
I avoid talk of work as much as possible when I'm out of here. I enjoy work but the nuts and bolts aren't what I want to talk about.
Glad that your AA meeting was good.
i wrote a post recently about having a 'holiday hangover' except there were no drugs or alcohol involved. just a lull feeling after so much activity. energy levels go from high to low.. so i've felt some depression too. i've heard of many people with sleepless nights lately - must be some weird thing going on in the universe is all i can figure. gawd knows really.
chicken salad sounds REALLY good right now - it's approaching lunchtime here and my stomach thinks it is TIME! have a good rest of your day.
i saw this today and thought of you: http://www.andrewcohen.org/email/admin/WebVersion.asp?ecp=TAT-010709&id=2433&db=emails
i have NOT read it yet - i suppose i should first but i've got to get on the road for work. hope it is at least of interest. nothing weird i hope. if so, ignore! hehe
Happy New Year. You sound like you have an uplifting outlook for what lies around the corner. When you choose to make the best of where you are, then life feels good. You realize you exert more control than you thought.
I know you thought not to write about work - but you're right - it's a big part of your waking life, so why not write about it? And Mikey - Stay out of the naughty corner, right?
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