You may not hear a lot from me during this next week. I know it will be a week of madness and I think I am somewhat mentally prepared for it. Not really sure. Not only is it our long week at work which means that I work my regular schedule Monday, Tuesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. But then I’ve squeezed in a night shift on Wednesday night. What the heck was I thinking. First of all, I’m not good at nights but with the contract we have signed, I had to have a shift in on either of those days. I have a doctors appointment on Wednesday so that went out the window to pick up on that day and there was no shift that I could do on Thursday so it was the only option I had. At least I will have 30 hours of rest on Thursday…

The following week I’ve had to swap with a coworker from Thursday to Monday. There is an E! Terrell show on Thursday so I was very thankful that she could swap with me. I may be working Tuesday, not sure yet and then Wednesday on my regular schedule.

I had intended to be off four days after that. But that was just going to be a dream. I am off Thursday and Friday for sure but then our scheduler decided to totally destroy my plans and put me on SOC (monthly stand by) on that Saturday. So my 4 days may or may not be ruined. I had planned on going out of town for a couple of days with the dogs to really relax but that is not going to happen.

But it will be all good. When I look at the schedule now I dread it. I wonder what the heck I was thinking. But once I’m in it and doing it, it’s not that bad. I have prepared food, cooked almost all day yesterday so I don’t have to spend time doing that. I will try to take walks with the dogs to “clean my brain” and then just sleep as much as I can.

It will be nice when it’s over, that’s for sure!