Welcome Back to Real Life

For the past two weeks I have been in Oklahoma, Texas, and Draper visiting family and living foot loose and fancy free! It was so great!
I'm not sure you can even comprehend the greatness of it.

Then I came home.

Lets rewind to right before I left for my amazing vacation when Kim, our office manager, quit.
Suddenly, I am the office manager until we hire someone else who actually knows what they are doing. 

I got two days of training before Kim was gone and I had one day on my own before I left for Oklahoma.
This translates into me coming home to a whoooole lot of work to make up - work that I barely even know how to do! 

It's been fun.

Last night I got barely four hours of sleep and was at work by 6:00am where the first patient was already filling out paperwork.
I worked straight through lunch and when everyone else went home at 2:30 and 3:00, I kept working.

And working.

As I was driving home after I finally came to a stopping point for the day (please note that I am nowhere near actually being finished with the day) a friend called to ask about plans for the night. I told him that I had no idea what was going on that night and I was just barely leaving work.
There was silence on the other end of the phone as he calculated what I had just said.

"Wait.... Did you just work a 12 hour shift?"

I looked at the clock. It read 6:00pm

"Yeah, I guess I did!"

This got me thinking and I realized that the only thing I had eaten all day was a chocolate turtle cookie from work. 

Those are probably the only constant in my diet.

I tell you what, when you are busy the day just flys by!

The bad news - If you saw my desk you wouldn't even know how much I got done today.
I didn't even make a dent.

The good news - We hired an office manager today! From my short conversation with her I think we will have a lot of fun working together and I am more than happy to share my workload. 

Now I should probably go eat something.

And then go to bed.

Work is at 7:00am tomorrow and I have a well fed stack of papers waiting to greet me on my desk.

Welcome back to Real life!

Cold

When I think of Logan one of the first things that comes to mind is "cold."

I don't think I have been warm (other than a few moments) since I moved here.

The thing is, Logan actually has beautiful weather! You just can't go into any of the buildings. They are freezing!

Today, I went to work and, as usual, I froze. Every morning I sit in the sun and try to soak up all its warmth before it's gone by 9:30. We just got a hot chocolate maker and I wanted some so bad today, but I had already drank it all so we were out. I thought about making coffee, just so I could hold the cup.  For lunch I had chicken noodle soup and it felt so good to have some warmth! I put my hands around the scentsy we have and tried to warm my nose by it, but I was unsuccessful in my attempts. I thought (like I think every day) that I should really bring a coat to work next time.

At the end of the day I walked out to go to my car and it was like a whole new world! It was almost 90 degrees! Who knew it was full blown summer outside? I certainly didn't! I sat in my black car that had been absorbing heat all day and saving it just for me. I bask in that heat all the way home. It is glorious.

Then I came home and sat on the couch to read my book, and the air conditioning starts blowing directly on me. I try various places throughout the apartment to get away from it, but it won't leave me alone. I finally give in and get my biggest blanket to wrap up in, but my face is still an ice cube from the air conditioned wind storm. I end up reading my book curled up in a ball under my make-shift blanket tent.

One day I got so desparate to be warm that I actually went out and just sat in my car.  It is my sanctuary.

All I want is to be warm! Is that so much to ask?

p.s.  Do you like how Playlist suddenly decides not to share with blogger literally right after I finish making it so aesthetically pleasing? Yeah, I thought that was really cool too. (no pun intended)