Christmas Eve and I’m at work.. all day long.

At my workplace there is a condition that a person is entitled to half a day on either Christmas Eve or New Years Eve. So one of those days you only have to work from 8 till noon and can then go home.

I’m one of the VERY few that is working full day on Christmas Eve. After noon there will be a total of 4 staff members here, when usually we have staff of around 15.

One of two things is going to happen… it will either be dead quiet and nothing will happen, or it is going to be really really busy with a few emergencies thrown in for good measure (oh just the odd house fire, homeless people, police involvement for one reason or another.. so many wonderful possibilities). I may just be cynical but I’m feeling it will be the latter of the two.

I have a mountain of work to get through, it really does need to be tackled but to be truly honest I just don’t want to do any of it. I’m considering finding ways to look busy today but actually do nothing (such as right now… I’m typing this entry in a word document so it looks like it is something work related!)

I think it is very unfair that J gets to stay at home, contently sleeping in bed till any time he wants while I was forced to get up at 6am. If I were to go back to bed now I know that I would be asleep in a heartbeat. I need sleep! Let me sleep!

I do get to have 4 wonderful lovely days off though! 4 days where I can sleep in! Positive affirmations will get me through the day… 8 hours to go, 8 hours to go, 8 hours to go, 8 hours to go, 8 hours to go.