There's probably a lesson here somewhere about over extending myself....
But I do get rather tired of getting headaches on my day off. Like...it's my day off. I should be able to relax and enjoy it in peace.
Yesterday....yesterday I was trying to be stubborn and push through the migraine I ended up with in the morning because I was woken up a bit too suddenly with text from a friend after not enough sleep.
And like....I probably should have gone back to bed for a little bit longer. Try to rest the headache away.
But I was...anxious.
Because I've been wanting to return my borrowed car to my family for days now. And while yesterday was supposed to have been quite stormy...the weather wasn't actually that bad in college town.
And radar was showing that the storms would be fading in the afternoon with mostly just like...light drizzles expected if anything. The major snow was gone for now.
And since I don't quite trust the borrowed car in the snow...and since my roomie was available after she got off work to come grab me from my family's house....I figured yesterday was the opportune moment to go and do that. To go see Family and at the same time. Succeed in getting their car dropped off without getting caught in storms.
Except...I tried to push myself too hard. Do too many things.
Like...I often have said that like I have 'one social activity' in me. So trying to do multiple social things in one day? Heh...yah it was a recipe for disaster.
I can admit that.
As I had the soft plan to go by the mall before heading over to family to check out a specific store for their sales. And since I was there I thought I would drop by the food court and get food from a couple places there that I've been craving.
It was also instigated with my sibling being like "Yes, I can have you come over, but could you bring me Fresh Squeezed OJ from Jamba?" Because that's a 'hey this helps me feel better' drink for my sibling.
And since that was near the mall I was like "Sure!"
So first I grabbed that drink and one for myself. Then dropped by the mall to look at the store -didn't buy anything- before grabbing food for myself, my sibling, and for my roomie...and then drove all the way over to sibling's house...
And the entire time I'd been fighting a headache. One that would come and go and come and go.
And it....just kept getting worse.
To the point where by the time me and the roomie got home....I was feeling quite nauseous from the migraine pain. To the point where I actually was impressed I managed to make it home without throwing up because the car lights were agonizing and the sounds were agonizing and the motion of driving was agonizing.
So yah...I basically died last night after I got home. Took a shower to try and relax the muscles and then spent the night tossing and turning as the migraine off and on woke me back up throughout the night.
So yah....fun times. So much...fun times.
And honestly....I probably shouldn't have pushed myself so much.
Delayed my leaving the house so I could take a nap.
Maybe gone less places.
Stopped trying to do too much all at once.
Because it's sooooo so miserable to end up with a major migraine that will not go away no matter what you do so you kinda just have to suffer until it's grip leaves you.
Which makes going to work the next day (today) even more 'fun'
Thankfully I had a mid shift so I could sleep in a bit and I did manage to make the headache go away during my shift. So yay.
But work itself had it's own trials today.
Mostly in the I felt rather weak and shaky from the migraine as my stomach was unsettled enough that I haven't eaten much most of the day. So that left me feeling less confident in my 'do things' abilities.
And when a stupid ship from store order comes in with EIGHT 50lb bags that have to be pulled off the shelf and then put into boxes to ship to the customer....yah no. 400lbs lifted multiple times? Yah. I could only manage it once.
And beyond that minor hiccup the day was actually pretty mellow. Until like the last hour or so of my shift...when a good 20 orders dropped that needed to be picked and packed before the end of the day.
And unfortunately we ran out of one of box sizes within easy reach.
Which meant that I would need to grab the forklift to get the pallet down from the steel....
Only the pallets of boxes weren't labeled. So I had no idea which size was on which pallet.
So I delayed grabbing them down as long as possible, working on orders that required other sized boxes first.
But then right as I was supposed to be off....our Fish Truck finally showed up. So I had to unload that.
And then I still needed to grab the boxes down because my other closing manager hasn't really been trained on the fork lift yet. So they wouldn't be able to finish the pack orders unless I grabbed down the boxes.
*exhales*
And of course the size that I needed....was on the LAST pallet I checked.
And by this point I'm tired. I'm ready to go home. I've been still recovering from the migraine. And I'm getting irritated that I'm not off yet. And that means I'm getting sloppy.
Which is rather stressful to be at that point of "I don't care anymore" while you're trying to work heavy machinery and lift heavy product off steel that's squished between other pallets....
Like I nearly knocked one pallet off the steel because I misjudged the distance of the pallet I was trying to put back and pushed the other pallet so it was crooked.
Which made it it's own trial to get that down without it falling off the steel but also get it onto the prongs of the forklift....
And it was soooo soooo SOOO frustrating to do all that work to bring the crooked pallet down to have it be the WRONG SIZE. UGH.
ANd of course. OF COURSE It's the LAST pallet that I needed to check.
*exhales*
In any case. Because of everything....I clocked out 45 minutes late.
Which was even more frustrating because my other manager had offered to have us start lunches early so that I could leave early though I declined the need to leave early as my headache was better by that point.
But I just couldn't help but think. "I could have been off 45 minutes ago."
*exhales*
Oh well....I was 10 minutes late today because of my migraine. So it will probably even up a bit over the rest of the week.
Still...I'm glad to be home. Not looking forward to the morning shift tomorrow...but at least I'm home for now.
Until you next find these words;
I'll be watching the leaves.
Enjoy the day!
-Sarnic Dirchi
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