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dragonlady7It's all caught up to me. Friday rushing around cleaning, little sleep, Saturday working, skating, socializing, and then Sunday to Rochester for Pennsic planning, drinking beer in the sun all afternoon: I got home, took out my contacts, attempted to take a nap, was awakened by Cat Drama (apparently Remi kicked the ass of the large orange tom that tore the shit out of Chita a couple of months back-- huzzah for her), was actually incoherent but successfully made homemade blueberry ice cream, and then collapsed into bed. This morning I awoke because I was in too much pain to sleep any longer, and have spent over 2 hours now sitting on the couch in a tiny miserable ball of misery.
Some of it's sunburn-- my lips are sunburnt, which is surprising. The rest of me hurts, but isn't visibly red, so I think it's tiredness.
But the derby soreness is the worst of it. Both thighs, naturally, but my right arm for some reason, all through the shoulder-- mostly in the muscles, I believe-- is basically unusable. And then my right hip, but not the joint, the little fat bit above it, is wickedly sore, affecting the abdominal muscles a liiiiitle bit on that side. It feels like a muscle strain, but it's totally in an area that's almost all fat, so I don't know where there'd even be a muscle in there.
My knees are creaky-- they hurt during the bout, but not quite bad enough to seek out an ice pack, and they're almost totally fine now. So that's good.
But man. My shoulder. I can't use it for anything.
I should probably go work out; that's usually the best approach to muscle soreness. But I am so tired, so very very tired. Today may have to be a day of recovery. Except that I sort of have a whole lot to do... gotta clean out and get the car washed, do some preventative maintenance on the poor thing, since it's just turned 100,000 miles. Gotta work out what i'm bringing to Baby Sister's wedding thingy. Gotta finish the dress I'm making. (I hope I don't have to drive to Troy, since I may need that five hours to sew the hem. Oh yeah, need to figure out what we're getting Baby Sister for her wedding, what we're getting Dad for Father's Day, and what we're getting Mom as a gift for her retirement. Need to buy liquor and package homemade syrups attractively. And need to decide if I need to snag any new photographic equipment to get pictures at the reception. I had said I wasn't going to be The Photographer, but I still may feel obligated to try. I really ought to get a new battery for my camera...
At the moment I am so tired I feel like I am not capable of anything. But I had such a wonderful day yesterday and am looking forward so much to Pennsic and am so motivated to do things about it, I can't sleep for thinking about it.
And also can't sleep for worrying about how I am going to get the time off. I am only part-time; I should be able to ask the manager, who schedules apparently at random, if she could group the three days I work per week consecutively, right? I mean, she schedules pretty much at random and it's never the same one week to the next, so if I ask if I could work a chunk of days all together instead of, say, Tues-Thurs-Sat as I have been, would that be unreasonable? But I did before and she kind of flipped out. So I'm really nervous about it and know I have to time the request correctly. I'm worrying about it for more than Pennsic, though-- I also want badly to go visit Katy in August, since she's going to be 8 mos pregnant and her husband is going to be in Korea. AND, i am thinking I really ought to get a second job, since this one has settled into a pretty consistent 20 hours a week-- but if I don't know my availability, how can I do that?
So maybe I just have to pick a day when the manager is in a good and receptive mood, and just bring up the topic in general. I don't want to be a prima donna or anything-- I hate people who feel entitled to have everything their way even at the expense of others, and it's unreasonable for me to assume that five other people are going to rearrange their lives for the convenience of mine. But I also think it would be really nice not to have my entire life ruled by a job that isn't enough to support me; I need to be free enough to use the time they're not willing to pay me for, either for my own ends or for other gainful employment. And for that I need more than a couple of days' notice of my availability.
But it's early yet; two long-term part-timers are leaving in the next month, and I haven't settled in entirely yet. (I'm worried I'm learning too slowly, though people are being nice and supportive when I express this worry.) So I may just bring it up casually, asking whether things will settle down and expressing that I don't want to ask for time off if I can just work around a predetermined schedule instead. Of course, having to drive back and forth to Pennsic four times would be really annoying, and commuting to Georgia is unfeasible, but having an absolute minimum of requested days off would be a reasonable and worthy goal, I think.
And then I'll know what I can reasonably expect to get as a second job.
Some of it's sunburn-- my lips are sunburnt, which is surprising. The rest of me hurts, but isn't visibly red, so I think it's tiredness.
But the derby soreness is the worst of it. Both thighs, naturally, but my right arm for some reason, all through the shoulder-- mostly in the muscles, I believe-- is basically unusable. And then my right hip, but not the joint, the little fat bit above it, is wickedly sore, affecting the abdominal muscles a liiiiitle bit on that side. It feels like a muscle strain, but it's totally in an area that's almost all fat, so I don't know where there'd even be a muscle in there.
My knees are creaky-- they hurt during the bout, but not quite bad enough to seek out an ice pack, and they're almost totally fine now. So that's good.
But man. My shoulder. I can't use it for anything.
I should probably go work out; that's usually the best approach to muscle soreness. But I am so tired, so very very tired. Today may have to be a day of recovery. Except that I sort of have a whole lot to do... gotta clean out and get the car washed, do some preventative maintenance on the poor thing, since it's just turned 100,000 miles. Gotta work out what i'm bringing to Baby Sister's wedding thingy. Gotta finish the dress I'm making. (I hope I don't have to drive to Troy, since I may need that five hours to sew the hem. Oh yeah, need to figure out what we're getting Baby Sister for her wedding, what we're getting Dad for Father's Day, and what we're getting Mom as a gift for her retirement. Need to buy liquor and package homemade syrups attractively. And need to decide if I need to snag any new photographic equipment to get pictures at the reception. I had said I wasn't going to be The Photographer, but I still may feel obligated to try. I really ought to get a new battery for my camera...
At the moment I am so tired I feel like I am not capable of anything. But I had such a wonderful day yesterday and am looking forward so much to Pennsic and am so motivated to do things about it, I can't sleep for thinking about it.
And also can't sleep for worrying about how I am going to get the time off. I am only part-time; I should be able to ask the manager, who schedules apparently at random, if she could group the three days I work per week consecutively, right? I mean, she schedules pretty much at random and it's never the same one week to the next, so if I ask if I could work a chunk of days all together instead of, say, Tues-Thurs-Sat as I have been, would that be unreasonable? But I did before and she kind of flipped out. So I'm really nervous about it and know I have to time the request correctly. I'm worrying about it for more than Pennsic, though-- I also want badly to go visit Katy in August, since she's going to be 8 mos pregnant and her husband is going to be in Korea. AND, i am thinking I really ought to get a second job, since this one has settled into a pretty consistent 20 hours a week-- but if I don't know my availability, how can I do that?
So maybe I just have to pick a day when the manager is in a good and receptive mood, and just bring up the topic in general. I don't want to be a prima donna or anything-- I hate people who feel entitled to have everything their way even at the expense of others, and it's unreasonable for me to assume that five other people are going to rearrange their lives for the convenience of mine. But I also think it would be really nice not to have my entire life ruled by a job that isn't enough to support me; I need to be free enough to use the time they're not willing to pay me for, either for my own ends or for other gainful employment. And for that I need more than a couple of days' notice of my availability.
But it's early yet; two long-term part-timers are leaving in the next month, and I haven't settled in entirely yet. (I'm worried I'm learning too slowly, though people are being nice and supportive when I express this worry.) So I may just bring it up casually, asking whether things will settle down and expressing that I don't want to ask for time off if I can just work around a predetermined schedule instead. Of course, having to drive back and forth to Pennsic four times would be really annoying, and commuting to Georgia is unfeasible, but having an absolute minimum of requested days off would be a reasonable and worthy goal, I think.
And then I'll know what I can reasonably expect to get as a second job.
