Three day weekends are tough. Regardless if you have a lot of calls or not. To wake up at 01:40 am, leave the house at 2:30am and not be back home until 6pm is hard. Then you have to make sure the dogs are fed, have something to eat yourself (which is not good to eat right before bed) and just crash in bed. I hope to get about 5-6 hours of sleep every night. Usually it works because I am so exhausted.

We didn’t have a lot of calls this weekend but we still have our probie. Friday wasn’t anything at all. We ran 3 calls and she was driving all day. But sitting in the back of the truck all day can be bumpy. Saturday I was not feeling well at all. Around 11 I got dizzy and had a weird headache. I was very close to throw in the towel and go home because I had no clue what was going on. Less sure if I was capable to run a call. But I said “i’ll give it another 30 minutes” over and over again and we didn’t have another call until late in the afternoon, right before we could go home so I made it through.
Yesterday was also an easy day callwise. I don’t know why but yesterday was apparently a day when anyone could speak rudely to me. Probie thought I was stupid or something and even one of the ER doctors dropped her jaw when she heard her demanding something at me. And, as a 43 year old woman who lived in several countries; I did not know how to lock the door from the inside either… But it must have been me for patients also screamed at me so…guess I am stupid. Needless to say, all that negative environment for 3 days was hard. I really needed 2 days off. So glad there wasn’t anything for me to pick up tomorrow. I absolutely need a break. I am going to work Saturday anyway.

Today has been a really good day. Started the day with a huge cup of tea. It’s a must now. It was only 30 something degrees outside and I had forgotten the Poinsettia outside. But it looked so cool so I took a picture of it before taking it inside.

Twix was wondering why on the planet earth we were outside taking picture of this and not of him… of course I made him the center of attention and took a picture of him as well…

I went to the barn early and took care of the girls. It was still cold so I had my ski pants on. Simply appropriate. They didn’t mind the cold weather it seems like. It was pretty okay in the sun actually.

When I got home I swapped pants, it was about 45 degrees outside at this point, and took a walk with the dogs. Talk about energizing my soul in a couple of hours. Spending time with the 5 living creatures I love the absolutely most. And the weather was good even though a little chilly, I remained my successful streak of taking a walk every day I’m off.

As a flux I was looking on the websites to make sure the packages I’m waiting for are on track. I don’t know why I did it but I’m glad I did. UPS is coming with the tea packages tomorrow. That is the last thing I’m waiting for so I can start the business for real. But when I searched the tracking number this is what I see

WTF??? I posted this on Harlequin Tea’s Facebook page and got a quick response from UPS to send them a message with the tracking number and delivery address so they could look into it. That was 6 hours ago, still haven’t heard anything.
I am also waiting for an Amazon package and I don’t think it will make it here either to be honest. I know they say it will be here at 10 pm and it is still 4.5 hours but it has been in Forney since 3 am! I could have gone and picked it up myself!

The Amazon package ain’t a big deal if it gets delayed until tomorrow but the UPS package is!!!

After winding down from my walk I got quite tired. Nothing that stopped me from taking my big butt to bed for a 2 hour nap. I think I needed that despite sleeping like a rock for 10 hours last night. I am listening to my body and letting it rest when I can.

It’s now 5:40pm and I am considering going back to bed again… that is how exhausted I am. I have been up for less than an hour and I’m sitting in front of the computer with a light headache and almost falling asleep. So I guess we’ll just head back to bed again…