Day Off!!

Last week on my day off I went for a drive most of the day. This week I had a productive day off! I woke up this morning and started to clean and clean and clean! I really needed to do it and I figured it was a good day to. True, it was gorgeous but I opened the blinds turned on my iPod and got to work! Of course, this was after my 3 cups of coffee! Yes, I know I really need to cut down to one cup...maybe 2 everyday. But I feel as though I deserve it.

It was a stressful week at work and I don't forsee it calming down anytime soon! It really sucks when I am not thrilled going to work. I have only had one other job in my life and I LOVED it!! I used to work at a tanning salon and was unofficially the assistant manager. Considering I worked there for 8 and a half years, I earned it. That job got me through high school and college. I used to complain about it all the time when I was working there, but looking back now that its no longer open I miss it so much. Its not just the job that I miss. Its the people. My customers were the best customers anyone could ask for. Working there so long I got to get to know them and their families. I got to see their kids start out tanning for vacation in middle school, then tan for prom and graduation. The clientele that we had was such a close knit family and it felt as though they extended that to me as well. I would have some customers who would sit there, ask me how I was doing, what was going on in my life, and talk to me about everything under the sun for a good 20 minutes. I miss them! And when you think about it, that is something that we are missing as a society. Going out of the way to ask someone how they are doing today and really listening.

I would really like to be somewhere that would happen again. Or at least somewhere I am happy to be. I know all jobs are stressful but I would love to be somewhere I can be myself and love what I do.