Thankful Thursdays: Week 47
This week I am extremely thankful for not having a 9-5 job. Last night, I wasn’t able to fall asleep, so I spent most of the night up and about, browsing the world wide web until the sun came up. I then attempted to go to sleep, for about the 5th or 6th time. I lay in bed for 2 more hour before I finally drifted off. There is little that is more frustrating to me than laying in bed and not being able to sleep, and usually I don’t waste my time doing that, but I was quite tired. I just wanted to rest. Sleeping for a couple of hours at 10 in the morning would definitely not have been possible if I would have had a set hour job. So, I lay in bed for 2 hours, listening to the sound of traffic and watching the leaves outside my window dance in the wind.The sun that was shining through the leaves into my bedroom was casting a play on my walls and on my face. Although I was tired and frustrated, I couldn’t help but smile. Going to bed in the morning also reminded me of Canada. I used to work as a Night Audit at a hotel for a little while before switching back to day shifts, and although I disliked it, there was one single aspect of it that I loved. I loved going to bed in the morning. I would get off work at 7 am, drive home while everyone was waking up; and while everyone was defrosting their car windows, I would go into the warmth of my basement apartment (or sometimes frozen basement apartment), make myself some hot chocolate, turn the heater on and off to sleep I went. I loved thinking that I just finished a work day while everyone else started it.
I’m also thankful for the Undo button that magically reappeared the morning after it didn’t have a click-able option. I was writing a blog post using Scrivener. It was all ready and I was happy with it, so I copied and went to paste it into wordpress. Somehow, I had copied something other than my blog post, so I go back to copy the right thing, and my blog post was gone. I freaked out a little bit, until I realized – ah, the Undo button. Whatever I did, it will erase it. The only problem was that when I hit Edit>> I couldn’t hit Undo. I tried everything, nothing worked. Upset, I went to bed early, and by that I mean 9 in the evening. I woke up at 3:30 in the morning because of my ridiculously early night and proceeded to check what happened on the internet while I was asleep. My best friend was on Skype, which already made my early morning fantastic, since we haven’t been able to talk for what seems like months – but in reality it was only a couple of weeks. After going on about how I lost all my work the night before, I was curious again as to what I did wrong, so I tried to figure it out. I clicked around on Scrivener, and then I go to Edit>> and then there was an option! I could click Undo Paste. And, my post was back! I was ecstatic! It’s really a shame when you work on something for a while and you actually like it and then… just one click and it all vanishes (a main reason why I like the traditional paper & pen or typewriter).
Also, excitement! Goodwilli (the biggest supermarket that you can find in Georgia) had Buko (a Danish cream cheese spread)! I became obsessed with Buko the first couple of months of being here, and then all of a sudden, every place in this country stopped carrying it. It was in fact devastating. Since then, I tried other cream cheese spreads, but none compared. Yesterday while sulking about something else, the boyfriend excitedly brought a few cartons of Buko to the shopping cart. That made my evening. For breakfast today, I had a piece of bread with Buko and it never tasted better. Speaking of food, I’m glad there is a Populi (a smaller, chain supermarket) within 1 minute walking distance from our apartment, for days like today when I have cravings for Diet Coke (or, sorry, Coca Cola Light) and a Kinder Surprise egg. It’s also handy for those days when I attempt to cook something and I realize, oh… I don’t have such and such. I’m not always lucky to find such and such at Populi, but at least there is that chance that I will.
So, what are you thankful for this week? I’d love to know.
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I’m thankful that I have a 9-5 job, oddly enough. Although this may not work for you, I love the structure. I love that I get up at the same time every morning and do the same routine.
Some would say it’s boring, I say it’s comfortable. And I always have weekends to switch it up, just so I don’t get too comfortable.
Yeah, routine works well for most, and some would even say that it’s the best thing for productivity. Perhaps. But I’ve never been a morning person, so I’m glad I’m not forced to be one with a 9-5 job. I’d much rather prefer a 3-10 job, something I did for the last 2 years before moving to Tbilisi. There’s nothing wrong with comfortable, I just prefer it to be a little bit more random. I work best that way.