Two days off in a row = TO DO LIST!

[rikibeth]

I am still getting the hang of this graveyard shift thing. I came home from work Sunday morning around 11 AM, plenty beat, and got six solid hours of sleep, thanks to the light-blocking curtains and the earplugs that shadowflyer and Christy picked up for me. Those earplugs really make a difference, especially since, in typical New England fashion, it has become summer OVERNIGHT, and I've got the bedroom window open and the fan on, and I can hear all the street noise that way. Also, the phone will wake me up even if the ringer is only on minimum volume two rooms away and off in the bedroom. With the earplugs in, I didn't wake up when shadowflyer came in to put boots on!

Anyway, six solid hours of sleep notwithstanding, I was still tired, so after dinner I went to bed again. Set the alarm for 12:30 AM, and then somehow managed not to turn the alarm ON, so it was a good thing I woke up of my own accord at 1:15 AM, enough time to get dressed and have shadowflyer drive me to work, so he could have the one remaining working car in the household to drive Christy to work at 6:30 AM. Because, here's the annoying part, not only is Christy's Cavalier still in Boston having a replacement engine put in, but my Volvo stalled out three times on the way to work on Friday morning, and the "check engine" light's been on for a while, so on Friday after work I dropped it right at Claude's so he could figure out what the hell was wrong with it. I hope it's not going to be hideously expensive.

The idea ws that I would call shadowflyer to come pick me up when I was done with work, but I got Sal to give me a ride home instead. Sal's a really nice guy. I was moderately surprised to learn that he was originally from Worcester, not from Hartford, although really I ought to have picked it up from his voice... what can I say? I grew up outside of Boston, and even though I haven't got the accent myself, it's not odd enough for my ear to register it much.

Anyway, when I got home, I wasn't sleepy at all. So, naturally, I made a to-do list.


Appt. for camp physical for melovechocolate
Dental appt. for melovechocolate - I want shadowflyer to make these phone calls
Call Claude re: car shadowflyer did this while I was out. Claude couldn't get it to stall on a test drive. He'll hook it up to the computer tomorrow.
Post office, send out packages (for atalantapendrag and eternaleponine)
Mow front lawn - this is another shadowflyer task, as I am phobic about power mowers, but his feet and ankles are still sore, so it might not get done before the thunderstorms predicted for this afternoon Done before it rained, 6/6
Make hummus
Put away dark laundry - I also tidied the pile o' clothes on the little red couch at the foot of the bed while I was at it
Ironing - the four items had been sitting there for probably a week, so I'm very proud of myself
Wash uniforms -- they're in the dryer now Upstairs in my room waiting to be put away, 5:30 PM 6/6
Wash towels -- there were two loads, the first one's done in the washer, waiting for dryer to be free First load in dryer, 5:30 PM 6/6, second one in soon (no rush, towels take forever to dry)Clean and folded, 10:15 AM 6/7
Kitchen floor I just used the WetJet, and it's not VERY clean, but it's improved -- 10:15 AM 6/7
Hook up stereo
Write descriptions for the two dresses I'm going to sell on Velvet Garden
Buy 10-ride ticket or tokens for bus (this will make it easier to deal with car-shuffling if mine's out of commission longer) 3:30 PM 6/6
Assemble knife kit/recipe binder (rant about vanishing smallwares at work in a separate post)
Blog (I suppose I could strike this, but there are a whole LOT of posts I want to write)
Cat box
Depilate and deep condition (well, can't do that until my bathrobe's out of the dryer, now)
Call Shauna re: Haven Left message 6:35 PM 6/6
Organize Colonial clothes loan for Freecycler
shadowflyer's paycheck to bank 3:45 PM, 6/6
Dinner? - shadowflyer figured this one out, it's going to be chili
Write up Weekly Chaos (this is a paper organizer for the family, we put it on the fridge)
Get melovechocolate's bike tire fixed
Deal with more melovechocolate laundry -- which may just mean nagging her, it's clean, she needs to sort and put away
Find 4 deedle-balls, 4 cloth napkins

That was just the stuff I wrote down in my notebook. Now that I'm sitting here I can also add:

Take old phone books to recycling drop-off
Take outgrown clothes to Salvation Army
Take out kitchen trash and compost I did this while I was fixing lunch
Pick up fishnet shirt mhaille is loaning me from pixel 2:45 PM, 6/6
And while I was at it, I asked pixel if he'd look at the Spin-X laundry thingy (basically a centrifuge) that hasn't worked for several years. He said he'd poke at it. Yay.
rent Dogtown and Z-Boys because I promised eternaleponine 3:00 PM, 6/6
Declutter purse 4:05 PM 6/6
Declutter car 4:30 PM 6/6


Whew.

And I'm sure I'll figure out more things to do, as well. Watch for the strikeouts with time and date after, because I really mean to get these done.

Comments

[kiztent.livejournal.com]

One thing I've discovered about shift work is that a regular schedule helps. So even if you're off for the day, try to sleep at your reglar time. Or maybe I'm just sensitive to that because my sleep schedule doesn't tolerate a lot of shifting.

Anyway, looks good, good luck!

[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

Ideally I'd like to sleep from 10 AM to 4 PM daily, but if I come home from work not sleepy, forcing it isn't really helpful.

I can re-set myself pretty readily, because I have a sunrise/sundown clock, which fools my body very nicely, as long as I'm feeling at least a little sleepy.

I can also MANAGE long stretches awake if I get the right sort of catch-up the next day.

It's working out all right. It's draining some IQ points, but honestly I wasn't using all of them anyway.

[kiztent.livejournal.com]

I think moving to getting up at 4:45 to catch the train in cost me about 10 IQ points.

[eternaleponine.livejournal.com]

My body is really precise about its schedule, too. Like I slept six hours the other night. I then inadvertantly (I was trying to read!) took a two hour nap, which makes up the two hours of sleep I didn't get... but it then effectively put the time I got up at 10 am, so I was like, "Crap, now I won't be able to sleep 'til 2 am, and I have to get up at 6:30!"

Guess what time I fell asleep? Yup. 2 am.

I never thought I'd say it, but I'm actually looking forward to when I have to be up and somewhere by 8 am four days a week, and I think 9 am one day... I'll actually have a REGULAR schedule.

[djinnthespazz.livejournal.com]

*giggles at you from behind my hand*
Aw! Look! She's growing up right before our eyes.

Regular schedules do make things easier. Much much easier.

[eternaleponine.livejournal.com]

:-P

I would certainly prefer it if said regular schedule involved not having to be anywhere 'til 10 am, though!