The Last Stint on Nightshift

It's been a rough month.  I switched to nightshift at the end of October--Halloween and Daylight Savings ended on my 2nd night.  Normally, when I go to nightshift, I roll right into keeping the same schedule on my days (nights) off so that I can get accustomed to a regular sleep schedule.  That has yet to happen and I don't see it happening at all.  Three days after starting the schedule, I had a 9:30am appointment.  Didn't get to sleep until 1pm and had to be up at 6:15pm--my get-up time for my 8pm shifts. 


Almost had a sleep schedule down that week and then I had a 0800-1200 class on the 12th.  This really put me on the path to sleeping like a dayshifter again.  Five days later, another 9am appointment.  Then, on the 22nd, I had a meeting to attend for part-time job...at 9am.  Got home to a message that my grandmother--my mom's stepmom--had passed away.  Called my brother.  Called other family members.  Finally fell asleep around 3pm.  Up at 6:15pm.


Two days later, attempted to do my 8am PT test but a migraine had other plans for me.  Did go to a 1pm doctor's appointment that afternoon.  The PT test got rescheduled to a few days from now...at 2:30pm...go figure.  This is the second reschedule.  We'll see.  As it was, I had a 9am doctor's appointment and I'm still not on a night shift sleep schedule so I think I got four hours of sleep today, before shift, after sleeping like a dayshifter Sunday night.  Ugh.


Two weeks and I'll be on vacation--no need to sleep on dayshift then.  Hell, I have only six days of work between now and then and there's no stretch of more than three.  Why should I even try to sleep during the day.  Ugh.  Again.


January brings about a week of nights and then I'm having surgery with a couple weeks of convalescent leave.  Won't need to sleep during the day then either.  I should just go to dayshift but, then, I wouldn't get anything done that I've been doing at work.  lol. 


Back to the grind.

Veteran's Day 2015...Let's Revisit This Post...

From last year...
Veteran's Day 2014

With the Congressional pawn that the military has been and continues to be, I still can't recommend it as a career.  Every year, there are fewer and fewer who have served serving in public office.  It's a shame and I can only hope that it changes soon.  As much as Congress is cutting the numbers, there are fewer and fewer positions *to* serve in the military.  As our higher ranking officers continue to act like politicians--rather than the soldiers, Airmen, Marines, and Naval personnel that they are--it's really disheartening.
Those Generals and Admirals need to do a better job of looking out for their people rather than just looking out for their behinds.

A Milestone: 100th Post. 100 Things On My Bucket List (In No Particular Order)

1. Run a 10K
2. Run a marathon
3. Manage a bra store (of non-matrix sizes)
4. Own a bra store (of non-matrix sizes)
5. Own a chain of bra stores (of non-matrix sizes)
6. Make the Bonus for $800+ on a consistent weekly basis at WHBM in 2016 and beyond
7. Provide Self Esteem workshops on a regular basis for at-risk girls
8. Move to Carmel, Indiana (if it suits)
9. Finish my Bachelor's in Business Management by 2019
10. Write a book
11. Publish a book
12. Visit Niagara Falls
13. Have $10,000 in my savings account
14. Have $25,000 in my savings account
15. Have $50,000 in my savings account
16. Have $75,000 in my savings account
17. Have $100,000 in my savings account
18. Have no credit card debt when I retire from the military
19. Have no debt at all by the time I'm 50.
20. Fully implement the Kondari method of decluttering
21. Learn to shoot a pistol
22. Learn to shoot a pistol with accuracy
23. Take up archery as a regular hobby
24. Learn belly danicing
25. Learn ballet
26. Do either (or both) well
27. Get back to drawing and sketching
28. Learn to knit (again)
29. Go to Scotland
30. Take a Uniworld cruise
31. Go to Hawaii
32. Go to Ireland
33. Go to Prague and visit the Naprstek Museum
34. Write notes regularly to my friends
35. Send birthday cards to my friends
36. Write my memoirs
37. Get to know my SIL better
38. Learn to ride a horse
39. Learn to ice skate
40. Attend a Britney Spears Vegas concert without breaking the bank
41. Paint on a canvas
42. Create a book of photographs of a not-so-well-known photographer (love you Dad!)
43. Learn to waterski
44. Grow a garden
45. To make my house completely mine and in my taste.
46. Go to Harry Potter World in Florida
47. Be a tourist in Chicago
48. Be a tourist in D.C.
49. Take a cruise to nowhere
50. Drive a Camaro
51. Take up yoga
52. Be a tourist in Seattle (again)
53. Navigate a glider
54. Be a tourist in Jackson Hole
55. Stay at the Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, CT
56. Be a tourist in Providence, RI
57. Visit San Francisco again
58. Visit Las Vegas
59. Spend a week at a nice beach
60. Grow a garden in my back yard
61. Read all the books in my home library
62. Fix the attic
63. Finish installing flooring throughout the house
64. Install new carpet in the master bedroom
65. Repaint the exterior doors
66. Fix the kitchen door
67. Install new windows in the attic
68. Learn to golf
69. Visit Ground Zero
70. Visit the Holocaust Museum (but not on the same day as Ground Zero)
71. See the Spruce Goose and Queen Mary
72. Visit friends whom I haven't yet met in person
73. Visit family whom I haven't seen in years, decades even
74. For my other blog to become a well-known and recommended resource about bras and bra fittings
75. Learn to ride a motorcycle (and actually get out of 2nd gear)
76. Be an extra in a PG-rated movie
77. Meet Hugh Jackman
78. Find a career that I love so that I don't have to "work" another day
79. Find love again
80. Help someone change their life for the better
81. Help ten people change their lives for the better
82. Help 100s of people change their lives for the better
83. Find more worth in the real world
84. Make it through the next four months on night shift (always feels like it takes forever)
85. Fix up my bicycle so that I can ride it more often
86. Be more positive
87. Complain less
88. Do more good things
89. Do more for others
90. Be more selfless
91. Know that life
92. Isn't incomplete
93. If you can't
94. Make a list
95. Of a 100 things
96. That you want 
97. To Accomplish
98. In
99. Your
100. Life

This took more than a month to create.  I better get started.  :D