Friday 13 Nothing out of the ordinary happened for me on this day. Surprisingly I got a Friday off, a rareity in my current job. So perhaps something out of the ordinary did happen and I missed it! This gave me the ability to go to the "crazy" meeting with the awesome fellowshipping afterwards. Us Californians are still unsure as to what these albuquerquians deem as being crazy cuz to us the meeting seems just fine. It is run in a fashion very similar to my Las Vegas meeting experience which may be the cause of the "crazy" term, because it is ever so subtlely different from the Abq norm. I am just grateful for the opportunity to be in any meeting. And after the fellowshipping we did a 12th step call, sort of as it related to the quitting cigarettes of a friend. We confiscated all "the goods" as it were and he has since made a commitment to stay quit. All in all it was a rather successful day off.
Sat 14 In an awesome chain of events that had me working graveyard, I was able to attend Bill's graduation party. I slept in, started my day late, did laundry, talked about the errands I needed to run all day, finally went out to run the errands to find the verizon store in town no longer existed. I still managed to get coolant for the car. We arrived at the party around 8 or so and many people were leaving. Around 9:30 when there was only a small handful of good friends left we broke out in dance! As was noted by Bill that's always the best part of the night. The spontaneous last dance of the evening. We all helped clean up, and we were on our way out well before I needed to leave for work. I was early and had time to change and dilly dally. I enjoyed my graveyard shift immensely, getting to watch 2 movies. Alice in Wonderland was excellent! Kick Ass was not what I was expecting but good in its own right.
Sun 15 I came in and had a few hours before the best meeting in the world. By the end of the meeting I was having troubles staying awake and was grateful that she knows how to drive stick, she drove home while I rested in a rather uncomfortable position for my neck, but it was much needed. There were people over when we got in and being tired, pmsy, and not in my best spiritual place humility was lacking and my mouth could not stay shut. I would like to learn how to practice these principles in my weakest states. I cried for an hour before crashing from sheer exhaustion and heightened emotion and slept all day. I awoke thinking that my alarm hadn't gone off yet and I must still need to sleep more only to discover that I had never turned it on after setting it, but managed to wake up when I needed to anyway. I'm not quite sure how that works but it did. I prepared for another day on grave! Movie, and laptop in hand. I was having a hard time shaking the feelings, but enjoyed my movie and quiet night with a renewed sense of purpose as to where I want to be and what I need to do to get there.
Mon 16 I was pulled over on the way back to the house and received a ticket for speeding, which I still am having a hard time believing I was going the speed the officer stated given all the factors involved, and a ticket for my expired registration which I was/am taking care of this trip back to Cali. I was issued a court day, hooray, and I'm hoping given all the circumstances the ticket will be dismissed. If not I will pay it and swallow my ego and practice my humility. Given the length of time spent pulled over I got in later than I wanted and didn't get to bed till quarter to 9. Having taken only 2 of the grave days, I still had to work my swing shift today and Tuesday-prior to my Wednesday vaca back to Cali via Vegas! I was surprisingly un-tired when I awoke 15 minutes b4 my alarm went off and slightly before she came in because I am normally up earlier for my swing shift, but I had decided not to shower because I had done nothing else the night before. It was sweet and as I managed to run late in spite of it, I still got to work on time. Work was a blast this particular shift given the 2 others were in a particular jokular mood. I was tired, and went to the grocery store on the way back to get a few things for the next couple of days and my trip. I ate a delicious microwave Thai dinner of curry basil rice noodles, watched some disney, fell asleep for a bit on the sofa in an obviously odd position waking achey and wanting to go to bed. Once I washed my face, however I was awake and have spent the morning online with no apparent focus today. Now I am tired and going to sleep not looking forward to the now 5 hours I will be getting. Hopefully when I come in from work tonight I will be very tired, so I will sleep and awake refreshed and ready to go on Wednesday! Vacation here I come, I am soooooooooo ready!
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