Day 105: Man Up Ladybird!

Negative: I didn't lose any weight. Positive: I didn't gain any weight. Nah! Negative wins. Yeah, yeah, spare the well meaning speech about 'slow processes' and 'adjustments' and 'a good loss averages out at half a kilo to a kilo a week'. I need it immediately. I want it now! This is the now generation. Google is my professor. The last four sentences stolen directly from the Black Eyed Peas. I am suffering the seven hours sleep in two days syndrome more commonly known as day shift. Again. Anyone out there know a good way to get off the sleep deprivation/sleep excess bandwagon that is shift work? Six years, just shy, and I cannot get it right.

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This is my pattern. Suggestions of improvement are pleadingly sought. Please note that telling me to get up earlier will be a suggestion I just laugh at and tell you is impossible. Eight day rotating shift. Days one and two work twelve hours, seven am to seven pm. The night before day one is the worst. I often get to bed about midnight or one, but sleep often doesn't come until three at the earliest, sometimes not at all. Despite extreme exhaustion, I probably still only manage five hours the next night. Night two, with day three a rest day, I am up until ... well, at least an hour from now, if not more. Now is two am. Then I will sleep until one or two tomorrow afternoon. And be depressed because I slept the day away. I'll make up for it by staying up until five or six am. Now I am on night shift mode. Day four and five I work nights, seven pm to seven am. Ironically, on night shift I will come home and get into bed fairly shortly thereafter (recently it is stretching out later and later though) and so I'll sleep from about nine to four. On day six, day one of three days off, I'll go to bed about nine am again but set the alarm for two-ish. Then I will hit the snooze button for up to another three or so hours. That night up 'til six am, sleep 'til three, up 'til five, sleep 'til two and then we're back to the night before day shift. I think it averages out to about six hours a night. And the only solution I can come up with is permanent nights. That way there is no changing. Permanent days are impossible. I prefer to see dawn from the perspective of the end rather than the beginning. But permanent nights would play havoc with my vitamin D. Boo hoo, poor me. Man up, Ladybird!

The Outfit Top: Op-shopped (this is my attempt to meld sportswear with fashion. I love this top with its shiny fake fabric, its ostentatious labelling (and I don't like labelling), its assymetrical neck and its pockets (love, love, love pockets), but it sure got a few basketball references and some candid 'I don't like it' comments. Makes me want to wear it more. Hee hee.) Jacket: Myers Skirt: Op-shopped Tights: Retail Shoes: Irregular Choice 'Burlesque Beauty'

Photographer de Jour: V——
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