Wednesday - mid afternoon

I was lucky today.  Or blessed.  I got to the washout early - and they did the washout without charging the extra fee since they were all there already.  Got out of there quickly and to the plant. Lo and behold, one of the few decent loaders they have left working there? Was there.  I was done loading at 9:30 am.  Out of there, to the truck stop, fuel and home a little after noon.  Not bad, not bad at all.

For once, the last 3 loads have been ridiculous. 4 hours 10 minutes 2 days ago waiting, and hours waiting the 2 loads before that one.  

I couldn't sleep last night and it was related to fasting. This wasn't the normal "gee I just can't sleep", this fasting stuff was keeping me awake.  It was therefore amazing that I wasn't dog tired the entire work day.  But, it caught up with me after I got home and I immediately laid down in bed for a while.  

This fast has been one of the rougher ones. Not so much the hunger but  the fatigue and weakness.  It hits me, hard. It doesn't last forever but when it hits me, it's time to stop whatever I'm doing and sit or lay down depending on where I'm at and what I'm doing.  

I almost gave up earlier.  I just thought, if I eat now, I will regain my strength.  Then I looked at my belly and said, April Fool's!  No, really, I did look at my belly and that was enough to say not, I'm pushing on.  I have to make it at least 3 full days.  Tonight at 9:00 pm will be 72 hours/3 full days.  I will make it and there will be no sense eating that late at night so I predict that I will make it to tomorrow morning. 

I almost never eat in the mornings so I am predicting that I will make it at least until tomorrow afternoon. That puts the goal of 5 days within reach. I can't make any predictions beyond that, if this doesn't get any easier, I don't know if  I'll make it until Friday. And if I do, I probably won't go too late in the day before eating. That's because I have Friday off and I need to get stuff done at the park. 

Kind of hard to do when you have no energy.  I've got this excellent bone broth. It is store bought but it's top tier.  It's what I intend on drinking at least an hour or so before I start eating anything.  I will probably have an avocado and a few eggs after that, get my digestive system back operational and not overload it.  After that, probably some fish and green beans.   Amazingly, they tell you not to break a fast with salad.  I never knew that so I won't go that route.  

Anyway, if I do indeed make it to Friday, I'm not sure when I'll eat.  I will eat Friday if not before then, that's a fact.  5 days of this is plenty and enough. The thing is, it's getting really hot during late mornings and on into the evenings.  The best thing to do is get up semi early and get that mowing done before the bad heat of the day hits.  

I have half a mind to go over there right now and get some of it done - but that's because I'm sitting and not doing anything lol.  

Lol. The weather channel says it's 93 degrees out right now and feels like 106 .  Probably rethink that one lmao. Summer doesn't official start until the 21st, but you couldn't convince me that this isn't summer temperatures.  No wonder I was drained after getting out of that truck - the ac as I have stated many times over - doesn't work correctly.  

I'm thinking I should get up early tomorrow morning - like around 4 am - and get the Arkansas portion of the run done earlier so I don't have to endure excessive heat driving back.  And after that, I have the rest of Thursday off and not going back to work until Monday!  Yayyyy!

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Got completely sidetracked and I'm going t o bed.  I might get up at 4:00 am, then again, I might not. I'm not setting the alarm clock for then, but I tend to wake up at different hours of the night for no particular reason, if it's around then, I'll probably drag my butt out of bed and get it over with.