Random Thoughts about life in general, living in the big city of Toronto
Wordless Wednesday
This is a photo of the clematis flowers growing at the front of my house near the driveway. I like how our flag was captured in this photo as well.
This clematis bloomed profusely this year and made the front of the house look quite nice with their pink blooms.
I think the vine has mostly finished flowering but the flowers have turned into beautiful seed heads. I’ll have to take a photo of the rounded seed heads to show you how pretty they are.
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It’s twenty to eight and I should probably make dinner but I’m just not hungry. I hate it when I’m not feeling well. I don’t sleep and I don’t eat properly and I’m certain all that adds up into making me feel worse.
I’m writing this down here because I want to keep track of cycle that I think is happening. I have one pain medication in the form of a patch. I put it on and it stays on for three days. I think that on the third day it’s not doing much for me at all and those are the days that I tend to feel the worst. Yesterday was a third day day. Of course if my theory is correct I should be feeling great today, but that’s not the case. I only feel a little better than I did yesterday. Hmmm …
I’m also trying to finish up my blogging – no hope of that! I’ve sites I haven’t even touched yet today! – so that I can get outside in the heat and water my garden. If Chris wasn’t working an evening shift at least I’d be able to ask him to water by hand or set up the sprinkler.
I’m certainly not looking forward to going outside. Not at all. It’s 31 Celsius with a humidity factor bringing it to 37 C outside right now. That’s 98.6 F. Yuck. An hour ago the humidity brought it to 39 C (102.2 F). I hope it’s a little cooler by the time I get outside to water my parched garden.
You ever have those days when you feel bleh and just can’t get things done?
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Does your spouse work shift work? When I was at work in the ER I did shift work, but I’m off work right now due to illness. My husband has always done shift work as well since he’s worked at the hospital.
What bothers me about his shifts is that he doesn’t always write down the schedule ahead of time. It’s not like we have tons of plans to make, but it would certainly be easier to book doctors appointments, plan meals and figure out other things if he’d write his darn schedule down!
Normally he works 7:30 to 3:30, 10 to 6 pm or 12 noon until 8 pm shifts. Most of the time he’ll be on the same shift throughout the whole week. So once I know his schedule that week it’s not too bad. It still doesn’t help with planning future events, but at least I know what’s happening that week.
This week his schedule is totally different. When did he tell me of the change? Sunday evening! This week he’s covering for a senior co-worker who’s on holidays so he’s working from 3:30 pm until 11:30 pm. Since he’s worked in the OR recovery area he’s never worked that late a shift.
I don’t mind that he’s working this shift. I’m sure he likes it compared to all the 7:30 am shifts that he worked when he had to get up at 5:30 just to get ready. I just wish I’d known. I think it’s actually a pretty boring shift. Last night he when they didn’t have patients he was going over all the Folded Brochures just to pass the time. Tidying them up and so on.
There’s only the two of us at home too. So when one of us works in the evening a meal needs to be planned that can be eaten alone and also easily reheated for the person who’s been working late. Even better, I like to make a meal that can be heated at work for Chris so that he doesn’t end up eating a full dinner really late at night.
His not telling me of his shift change didn’t allow me to make something decent for him to take to work with him last night. However after he left for work I got busy making a very easy yet delicious meat sauce. I made a huge pot of it. I always end up freezing some since there’s too much and also I like having a few easy things stored in the freezer for quick meals.
I let my sauce simmer for close to three hours. By the time it was done I was starving! I made spaghetti to have with the meat sauce and yum. It was delicious. Chris had some spaghetti and meat sauce when he came home from work and loved it too.
So now, thanks to the big batch of spaghetti sauce that I made we’ve got some quick and easy meals that Chris can take to work or that I’m happy to eat alone.
So, back to my initial question. Does your spouse work shift work? Do they let you know of schedule changes in advance? Or is your spouse like mine making you guess at the schedule all the time?