the dreaded is done

So if you recall a few posts back, I had something coming up that I "don't think about it, talk about it, just do it and get it done". Yeah, well the dreaded is done. What was it? And might I say I was really, really dreading this. I had the beeper for work. I have to do it once a year and last time I did it I got pulled to work a lot of the weekend, with a lot of different people, with a lot of different medications - the worst memory is having to sleep in the living room on a futon 0f in a small apartment of 4 highly functioning men, lets just say I hardly slept that night. Afterwards I let me imagination get the best of me but I think any woman having to sleep in a apartment with 4 men is kind of scary. Everything was fine but it was not something I want to relive.

So what was going to happen this year?

I got the beeper this past Friday and didn't I get called until Saturday morning for a 8am-4pm shift.. no big deal until I get called at 11am and informed that I have to do a 3rd shift awake. Meaning I had to work 10pm-8am and be awake the entire time at a MI group home with our most highly functioning people (smart cookies some of them are!). I honestly didn't think I could do it, I use to work a 3rd shift job and it was a struggle and now mother of two, sleepy Heather, years later... how would I manage? Well, I can only say that God was with me. Me and my ability to nap in the afternoons came in very handy. As I took a one hour nap Saturday afternoon and slept like a log. Then when I went to work Saturday night I took in 4 movies, a work out tape, a book, and a jigsaw puzzle. I was actually busy "working" until midnight so that made that time pass quickly. Then everyone went to bed and we are to encourage them to sleep so I had no one to keep me company. So I sat in the staff area watched TV and put my puzzle together. 500 pieces and about six hours later.. I had completed the puzzle and most of my shift. At 6am I was done with my puzzle and was just standing around.. I tried sitting and reading but almost fell asleep so at that point I was just walking around to stay awake. Funny thing is that I was fairly alert but once I let me guard down then I was totally wiped. Then my loving mom called at 7am and we chatted for awhile and then the people at the group home woke up and I had to finish my work. I got off at 8am, went home and slept until noon. Then I didn't get called again as I dropped the dreaded beeper off this morning. Now I work tonight but at least I can sleep!

If anything, I've learned that God puts us in what seems like impossible situations and then helps us through them.