1am and Counting.....

So, it's 1am. Why are you up Stephen? This is a question that is probably rolling through some of your brains. Well, here's the answer.......work. Yup, work. It's so much fun, NOT! Well, I take that back, I enjoy my job, I just don't enjoy working in general, so there's a conflict of interest there.

But anyway, my schedule is kind of different than others in the sense that I work overnight. I go into work at 11:45pm and get off at 7:45am. Therefore, because I live 30 mins North of where I work, I have to leave generally about 11:00 - 11:15pm to get there on time. I actually like working overnights. I have done it for a little over 4 years now, and it doesn't bother me. I'm a total night owl, and because of that, I hate the idea of going to bed early so I can be at work early in the morning. Plus, my brain doesn't work right at 8am, so working in the morning isn't something I enjoy, or am good at.

So right now, I am actually at home. On Saturdays our schedule at work is different. I go into work Thur night and get off Fri morning. Well, then I don't go back in again until 4:45am Sat morning. This I do not enjoy. I wish I could just go in at 7:45 on Saturdays, but I can't.

Saturdays are LONG days for us. I work in the shipping department, so before we can leave on Saturdays, all trailers have to be loaded for the weekend. This means that we usually pull a 12 hour shift. The money is good, but I just do not enjoy working that long......especially on a Sat.

So here I am, 1am, waiting for 4am to come, so I can go into work. The delima in my head is, do I go to sleep for 3 hours, or do I stay awake, and push through?

This question keeps rolling through my head, so I decided to blog about it. I actually posted my status on Facebook the other day as a question. The question was...."Does anyone ever sit in bed going, 'Ok, if I go to bed now, I'll get 6 hours of sleep', and then you count down to one, and it's a waste?". So yeah, that's where I'm at right now. If I go to bed now, I can get 3 extra hours of sleep before I have to get up. But knowing myself, it's not going to happen.

I know this post has no excitement value at all, so I apologize, but it's what I'm thinking about, so I'm writing it down. OOOOOOHHHH!!!! I know what I can do, I'm going to read one of my devotionals out of a book that I have!! That will be great. Maybe that will help clear my mind. Ok, so I'm going to go do that, and then maybe I'll come back and blog some more, with something of interest to say. haha. Until then......

Live for Him,
Stephen