IT'S BEEN SO LONG

Myyyyy baaad guys.

It's not an excuse but....I just did the math and I will have worked a total of 84 hours this week. EIGHTY FOUR. YOU READ THAT RIGHT.

How is that possible, you might ask?

Let me explain.

I know I posted about how I got laid off the hotel job. It was traumatizing and I took it a little personally and I was officially unemployed for wayyyyy tooooo looong (hallelujah for me I'm pretty good at saving money, so it wasn't totally terrifiying).

THEN, I found a job at a treatment center. Working with drug addicts/alcoholics. Then I found a job at ANOTHER treatment center. That's right. Two jobs. And I make it work. I'm surrounded by emotionally stunted but incredibly talented and intelligent people all day long.

How is it possible to work that much? Well the thing about these treatment centers is that most of the shifts include a stay-over, meaning I work all day and then sleep there at night.

This week I had:

3 day shifts followed by a night shift.
1 trip to the emergency room with a detoxing client.
1 client try to trick me into giving her more medication than she needed
1 night where I actually physically saw my boyfriend
1 trip from the ward missionaries which was really fun and completely serendipitious because I was only going to be at home for about 5 minutes.

CHAOS, as you can tell. But I'm actually really really happy. I help people all day long and I get paid for it. Yes, it's exhausted, but great :)

Love you all, check in more later.