More weird than funny, I admit.
My right shoulder has been stiff & sore for 3 days, I thought it might be too much holding the mouse at work (I don’t care for the angle of the seat I sit in, but since I share it now, I don’t like to change it either) I thought I might have slept on it wrong, then I started thinking it might be stress, back in 2006 I had the same thing happen, for no apparent reason except we were learning that horrible computer program that the company finally scrapped back in December ‘07 as a Christmas present to those of us miserable peons who had to use it daily. I was extremely stressed then, not just because of the computer program either. Eventually it went away on it’s own in ‘06. I have certainly been stressed lately, with money woes, bills skyrocketing, trying to determine if we can take our yearly trip to MA to see my mother, shooting my self in the foot figuratively at work & going back to the phone (starting Monday) there’s plenty of stress around right now.
Thursday when I left for work it was still painful. I had to mess with my seatbelt with my left hand, carry my bag with my sodas for the evening into work with my left hand, everything with the left hand. On the way to work I was reflecting on the stress thing & made up my mind to start doing affirmations that whatever happened was for the best, stressing over it wouldn’t help change it & that I needed to accept the phone thing & everything else as just how it is. At 8 a supervisor came running around & made all of us on chat who didn’t actually have a chat at that time get on the phone & take calls because the phone agents were swamped (they have never done that before! I was surprised) I was not on a chat & so got on the phone. A preview of how it will be Monday, my boss had wanted me to check the headset etc Wednesday or Thursday night anyway so I took care of that at the same time. The phone wasn’t that bad, I’ve been off it 100% since July ‘08 & from January ‘08 to July ‘08 I was only on it half time.
Well I took about 6 calls, the supervisor said only for an hour & he came back at 9 & said I could stop, it wasn’t really that bad at all, things are a little different than they were before where most calls are transfers & I just have to make sure the transferring agent did what they said they did, go further if there’s anything more that can be done & then discuss sending a tech out if it’s still not fixed. At 930 I was scheduled for “lunch” if I eat anything at work these days I eat it on my first break at 730-930 is too late to be eating even if I dont’ get into bed before 230! I realized when I got up (bracing for pain because I sprained my ankle Wednesday before work) that only the ankle hurt, my shoulder was fine again! Just like that.
Definitely stress related!
So I’m pretty pleased about the whole Schedule change at least, although working nights I was really ok about having weekdays off & working weekends, after all I get to spend much of the day at home with the kids anyway, of course, while it’s summer, it won’t matter too much what days I have off, except the waiting to go grocery shopping until Saturday. That’s going to be rough next week on the grocery front, I suppose I’ll have to go out on Friday to pick up a few things for the kids to eat that night. Transition is never fun.
More transition is on the way as Chrissie & her daughter may be coming back to stay with us for awhile, considering the issues we’re having with the cats (who are still supposed to be out all the time but keep slipping back in {the destroyed front door screen is definitely a help to them) & their refusal to use the litter box, I wouldn’t blame them if they changed their minds.
All up in the air though, nothing is ever written in stone, especially not around here!
