Excessive

My hands ache, sore with cuts, burns and bruises and sometimes I find myself taking a second to stretch out my fingers and feel my hands, and it's a persistent annoyance that I try not let effect me. My head aches, my shoulders are tight and feel as though screws have been screwed into various places in my back. My legs, hips and knees have a dull ache that remind me that I spent more than eight hours of my feet without time to sit, walking, climbing stairs, moving quickly, without stopping. My eyes are heavy and sting, my sinuses are blocked and painful with pressure, caused by god know's what, and how to fix it I've never known. I am uncomfortable, but this is me most nights. I usually try to ignore it, but sometimes it's just impossible to.

I worked 7am to 2:30pm today (I think), as that's pretty typical for Sunday, as it has been for years now (or so it feels). I woke up at 6am and reset my alarm without really waking up, and luckily I had set my phone alarm for five minutes later as a backup, and it went off, got me the fuck up like a punch to the face. I hurried to the kitchen and made a pot of coffee and toasted a bagel to enjoy with some cream cheese - one of my favorite breakfasts to be sure. I sat and ate breakfast while reading things on the computer, as I do most every morning, and once I was finished, I got dressed, brushed my teeth and got ready for work. By 7:40am Allen had arrived to drive me to work, so I grabbed my stuff, kissed Bekki on the forehead as she slept, and flew out the door.

For the most part today was fine, although a bit more stressful than most Sundays. Everything would've been fine if they hadn't book so many reservations all at the same time; if they had spread them out more, everything would've gone a lot smoother, but I mean... whatcha gonna do? I had the normal Sunday stuff of morning continental for about fifty people and then that's followed by normal Sunday brunch for about sixty to seventy people, forty of which were all in at 11am at the same time. Then, at 11:30am, I had a separate, totally different brunch for sixty in another room. I had Allen in to help me get some of the food ready, but mainly he just had time to organize the prep that was done the night before, bring it over and set up the buffet to his liking, as he had to stand and carve on it. I eventually got all the food ready for both events, and this is when it got a bit stressful. We had called in Martin for three hours, and if we hadn't, it would've been a lot worse. I was replenishing both events at the same time, Martin had to help Allen on the carvery in the Cafe as there was a giant line, and Josh was helping me when he could, to get some food ready for both events. After about 12:00pm or 12:30pm, it started to slow down and got a lot easier, but the kitchen was a disaster and I never quite recovered my spirits. I felt tired and annoyed, and wasn't interested in being there anymore. We broke down the buffet and cleaned it up, and Allen and I left at 2:30pm (it might've been 2:45pm, I really don't remember.)

Once I got home, I put in dinner, which was a big ol' Lasagna, which was going to take two hours, so I sat and programmed and did some finances while Bekki did some school work. When we sat down to eat dinner, which was the lasagna and a small caesar salad, we watched Cash Cab and then afterward Secret Boss or some shit, whatever that fucking lame show is that I've never seen and is bullshit filled with other meaningless bullshit. We continued working on stuff while we eagerly awaited 9:00pm to roll around because... winter is coming.

Yes, tonight was the season premier of Game of Thrones! This season is the second book, A Clash of Kings, which I'm just finishing up. We're both super excited for the show, and we made the entire night a special night just in honor of the season premier. It was really good, and I ate way too much popcorn and now I feel even worse than before! After the show, I read a bit of A Clash of Kings, and then had a bath, leading me to sit down here in this comfortable chair and write this wonderful entry.

I ordered the Hunger Games books (a set of three for $34) online from Chapters. I know little of them besides the fact that everyone loves them and loves the movie, and says they're great, so I figured for about $10 a book, it's worth the risk. I'm sure if I go in expecting or wanting to like them, I will. It's pretty much as simple as that. I look forward to reading them, and will most likely read the first book in the series after I finish a Clash of Kings.

I'm off work tomorrow, and as of right now I think I'll be making it a cleaning day - normal chores stuff, but with laundry and maybe some extra stuff like bathroom cleaning and vacuuming everything. It really depends on my mood and energy levels tomorrow, but the feeling of being in an above average cleaned apartment is awesome, and going to bed in a clean room is amazing. I get a lot of comfort from it, and want to feel comfortable more than anything else in the world, so I'll do what I have to do to get that feeling.

For the rest of the night I may just watch an episode or two of Funny as Hell and then go to sleep... I can tell a lot of my discomfort and pain (especially my head and eyes) are caused from being awake too long and being over-tired. I hope that tomorrow can be a productive, but also relaxing day.

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