My Weekends are RELAXING!

I work hard throughout the week, preparing ocean freight invoices and having to respond to every freaking person who seems to have either lost the knowledge of and/or the ability for phone usage (other people are capable of calling for copier maintenance and our own office's facility department takes care of copy and other paper supplies!) So, when I'm not busy doing my own job responsibilities and putting out others' "fires", I survive work for 40 hours a week, then I go home and REST from all of the craziness, in the seemingly-almost-never-ending attempt to prevent my own! So . . . . .on Friday after I get off work at 4 PM, I drive home (a 45-minute drive), change into my sleeping clothes (consisting of shorts and T-shirt) and either watch a little television, surf the Web, listen to the radio or do some light, non-serious reading (trust me, after doing "serious reading" of close to 250 invoices a day, I need the break!) or little of all of the above! Usually, I stay up as late as I can stay awake, then stumble off to bed,, sleeping until I awaken naturally (compared to the daily work week alarm set for 4:30 AM!) My Saturday is spent doing what I want (watching a little television, surfing the Web, listening to the radio or doing some light, non-serious reading or a little of all of the above), relaxed in my sleeping clothes, eating when I get hungry. I usually do this all day and again on Sunday, unless I need to be someplace and even then, I am still relaxed. I feel like I have a 2.75 day Sabbath!

(Originally posted on www.myspace.com/jkirton2 on November 11, 2006)