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Listening To: Phil Driscoll - I Exalt Thee
I was thinking this morning how amazing it would be if a body could store up sleep, "all-nighter? no prob! i have 13 hours of banked sleep!"
Too bad it doesn't work that way.
However, the last little while was really been great sleep-wise. I've shifted myself down to 4 days of work a week, i now have 2 days off in the middle, totally breaks my work week up into manageable sections (not that i couldn't manage it before of course...). But i've been sleeping a lot more than i thought possible, the first night i catch up on lost sleep and the second night i just sleep because i can. Awesome!
I changed my hours for a number of reasons. The first being that i really felt like i was taking my job far too seriously (especially easy to when you work in the family business), just the thought of going to work in the morning was enough to send my mind into over-drive (thinking about the messy back and how i was going to deal with it, and the stressfulness of having a dad for a boss and a brother as a manager). Also, i've been wanting to make a shift toward being at home more, having more time to do stuff around the house, baking/canning/cooking/cleaning/etc. Stuff that i feel is more important for me to be doing than having a full-time job.
Not to mention i can spend more time up in Summerland and Kelowna with the family contingent up there....:) The first week my new hours were implemented my lovely little niece Elise Marie Davies was born to Yvonne and Sam. i woke up that morning with a text from my co-aunty Rebekah B saying that Yvonne was in labour. Let me tell you, i was gone within half an hour! I had the privilege of holding Elise when she was just a couple of hours old (something that i missed with Jonas, i didn't even see him until he was 2 months old!) and then staying with Yvonne for a couple of days to help out where i could. What fun!
Today, being a Thursday, is the last day of my weekend. I've booked myself in for a haircut, i have library books to return, a room to vacuum, some Sufyan Stevens tickets to pick up tonight, and a brand new camera lens to play with. i did all my laundry and cookie baking yesterday, enjoyed the sunshine immensely (it is raining today), so thats basically all i have to do today. Maybe i'll research the dutch language a bit.