Wednesday, December 31, 2008
"Hibernation Hesitation"
So it's 5:30 in the morning, on hump day no less and my more than eager alarm on my phone goes off. Telling me it's time to get up. I lay there in hibernation hesitation for moment not really wanting to get up. Eventually, I muster up the energy and slowly crawl out of my nice warm bed.
It's New Years Eve day, and I'm about to start my new schedule at work. Now that I'm on day shift at DIA, it will be nice to have somewhat of a normal work day working 7am – 3:30pm. After all, the past four months, I've been working four tens with odd hours at night.
On my way into work I stop off at a mini-mart to grab a cup of much needed coffee. After my first sip, I'm not sure I can call this coffee, but for $1.49 it wasn't too bad. I so miss those tasty Ice Kickers from Dutch Bros. back in Oregon.
The next seven hours, are for lack of better words. Boring! So I'll skip over this mind numbing drabble and fast-forward to about an hour before my day here at work is to end. When over the radio, we get a call from operations for a correction that needs to be made on a plane sitting on gate A-34. I try contacting the individual working that gate on the radio with no luck. With time quickly running out, I run down to the gate and notify the individual of the correction that needs to be made. Unfortunately, the correction wasn't made in time, and we took a five minute delay on that departure.
Just as I'm about to wrap up my day from that last minute excitement and clock out, my sister Kim from Paris, Tennessee called, wanting to know if I had any BIG plans to ring in the New Year. "Nothing major," I tell her. It's been almost eight months now since we have seen each other. I'll have to make an effort to make a trip out to see her and the rest of her family very soon!
On my drive home from work, I'm listening to the music of Kid Rock when I got a "text" from a good friend in Oregon asking me what my new year's resolution is. At first I wasn't sure, I hadn't given it much thought to be honest. Then after thinking about it, I decided that my new year's resolution will be to draw more and update my portfolio, in hopes of landing an "art job."
It's now 5:47pm; the work day is over. I'm back in my apartment trying to decide what to eat, while the local news emits a story about the Denver Broncos head coach being fired. Somewhat intrigued, but not really I quickly go back to what I was doing, when I realize I'm not that hungry, not sure why. I haven't had all that much to eat today.
Think I might just kick back and take it easy tonight….