Starting next Monday I’ll be working full time as the store’s Payroll Clerk. It’ll be kind of nice to get an increase in hours, and two days off every week, but it will mean my work days are considerably longer than they have been recently. It’s going to take me a while to get used to going to bed a little earlier and getting up before 6am most days. I’d much rather get an earlier start than have my whole afternoon sucked away by work though. I’d hoped to be able to work half-days on Sunday, but right now that won’t be possible. Maybe when summer is over and the temp workers start leaving..? Well, it will be easier to take the occasional vacation day on non-critical Sundays, so that helps.
Anyway, it will be soooo nice to have Saturdays off. I’ll be able to see my friend Mara during the day for a change! And I might get to do things with my brother too! And, since I work in retail, having Saturdays off is sort of a big deal – that’s the busiest day of the week, and I don’t have to be there! I can’t remember the last time I regularly had a weekend day off. It was probably a couple of months after I moved up to the Cities in 2000, when I got my first ‘real’ job. Crazy!
Of course, me being me, whenever I have to make a change in my schedule I consider trying to sneak other changes in, hoping I won’t notice them so much. For example, since I’m changing my bedtime anyway, why not make it even earlier so I can read every night? Or, why not start doing sit-ups and eating breakfast each morning? Or packing a lunch instead of spending money at work? Most of my little fantasies of change just get lost in the reality of life, and that’s ok. I can always think about it again next time I make a pattern change.
