Tuesday - evening

I was dragging my feet all day long.  I slept very well, but after you've had several nights in a row of not-so-great sleep, you are going to eventually pay for it.  The drive up to Gurdon, unloading and coming back were uneventful and went by pretty fast, actually. I was home before 1.  My manager had thrown another run in there for tomorrow.

A few problems with that. First off, I have worked 8 days in a row now.  I had a day off 9 days ago and then I had worked I think 6 days in a row before that.   I have worked 2 full weekends in a row.  And, most importantly: I asked for tomorrow off many weeks ago and it was approved.  I saw that run in there and was not in the mood. I just got on the road and started driving back after I was done at the plant.

About halfway back, the manager calls.  Uhh, I put a load in there for you tomorrow.  He didn't let me get a word in edgewise, said he saw that I had asked for the day off and had removed it.  Well why bother calling me? I wondered.  I guess he figured I had seen it?  I had, actually, and was going to deal with it after I got home and after I got a nap.

 I got back to the yard, got my post trip done, talked with Trey for a few minutes - didn't really want to to be honest, I was not in a good mood because I was so tired - came home.  Said hi to Taylor, got the dog, got into bed and poof, just like that, an hour and a half of sleep.  I wouldn't have even known I had slept that long if I hadn't looked at the clock before dozing off, I was that tired.  

I feel much better now, thankfully.  It's hard to function being that tired.  I don't want to feel like that tomorrow for tomorrow is the field trip and I'd like to have fun at the - I think it's some sort of animal farm.  It's going to take most of the day after driving there, walking around for probably a couple of hours and then driving back.  

60. 40 to go.  It's getting harder, actually, not easier, to do these pushups.  Muscles don't have time to recuperate after only 1 day, but, that's what this plan is, we'll see what happens.  Typically, people that do pushups do them every day.  This is day 5 and tho the triceps are having some noticeable improvement, chest area is not. Then again, I didn't expect miracles in only 5 days.  I eeked out 80 yesterday and couldn't do any more. I just couldn't, but that was also extreme fatigue kicking in.  I went to bed shortly after I finished 80. Tonight I'm feeling much better, I'm pretty sure I can do the rest of the 40. 

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100 done, not too bad.  3 sets of 10 curls with the curl bar also done.  Thinking about doing 50 sit ups and call it good.  I'm kind of getting serious about shedding this fat body and besides eating right, exercise is also key. I know, some of these gurus say it isn't and I sort of fell for that for a while but a large portion of my adult life, I was lean and trim and that included going to the gym several times a week and keeping very active. 

Basically, I'm thinking back to what it took to keep me in good form and that equation definitely included a lot of physical activity, both work related, gym related and just hiking and doing things I liked to do.  

I'm not going to the gym, btw, I don't even have a gym membership atm.  We have a set of weights out on the back porch replete with a bench for bench pressing, curl bars and dumbells.  Plenty of weights, I wouldn't have to worry about buying more - probably ever. I'm not looking to be a muscle-laden beast, I don't even know if you can do that at this age. I'm just wanting to trim down and get some muscle tone.  It's probably why I have been feeling very fatigued the last several days.  Sleep issues while trying to work out and driving a truck every single day...and tomorrow, I still have to drive even if that day off. The flip side is it's just a pickup truck, automatic and it's mostly Interstate driving. 

Ok, I despise Interstate driving nowadays, but at least you get to where you're going faster than just about any other way of getting to a place save going on toll roads.  

Oh, and Trey came over with one of the new people. Trey doesn't even - or didn't - know where I live, the other guy is the nurse for a child of a friend that lives like 5 houses away from us.  He was paying rent. Trey didn't bother to come up to the house, so I called him in.  He's a little shy around me.  I don't think he's used to people like me. I'm not saying I'm anything great, but I am notably outspoken, not shy with my words and speak my mind. 

Ok, I've gotten better at the "speaking my mind" stuff. It turns out, you are much better off zipping it in many situations where you just let whatever play out.  I never used to care about that, but having a business has done a bit of a change on me in that department.  

I guess I'm half wanting tomorrow to come and half dreading it.  I really would like to just sleep in.  I have to get up early for this field trip.  They are leaving at 7:30 am, so I have to be up, dressed, coffee'd up, whatever and get over to the park and leave in the pickup by then as well.  I just want to get there and be there before those busses arrive so I don't miss them going in.  

Oh, and I was looking at the reviews of this place. There are a lot of very negative reviews.  Boring. Expensive.  Long lines.  Worn down.  Used to be a great place but now they've ruined it.  Things like that.  I'm guessing the kids won't care, it's the adults with the problem. Yes, we know, stuff that excites kids may not necessarily be so great for adults. I'm just going to go with the flow, let the kid do his thing and I will just watch unless he really wants me to do activities with him.  

I don't think I'll be home before 3, so that basically eats up a day off.  What I'm really hoping is that I get another run on Thursday and then have the weekend off.  One can wish.  It's not only the other drive in Africa, it's also the driver-trainer who is doing some sort of chemo pills for prostate cancer.  It makes him feel sick and takes all of his energy away when he has to take the pills. Work is kind of fed up with him, I guess he's only doing 2 runs a week.  

The manager took the run out of the tablet for tomorrow but didn't put another one back in.  Yet.  Really, if he actually asks me if I want to work the weekend, a thing he isn't doing anymore, I'm going to emphatically tell him no.  In fact, if he loads me up for this weekend, we are going to have a conversation. It will mean missing church for a 3rd weekend in a row for one thing. 

I've fairly well determined - don't hold me to this for I might change my mind again - that the next days off, if I actually get 2 of them in a row, I'm going to use one of them to fill out the application for the SBA loan and see what happens.  

Not going to go into that again right now, it's getting late in the evening and I'd like to wind down and relax a bit.  

Oh, and a person saying they want to move in - on the first lol.  I'm like, why do people call that far in advance?  If they aren't willing to give down money, I'm not holding it for them. I told her that I would most likely have something available and yes, I mostly likely will. There is a couple that showed up for a month.  I have no idea why they are here, they keep to themselves. They have a motor coach and a motorcycle that attaches to the rear of the coach. They go somewhere frequently.  Family? Event? Tourism? But that is a month's worth and then they are leaving.  Or I guess they're leaving? You never know with people lol. 

With that, I bid you a good night.