Rest...finally:)

Well it isn't my off yet, but I've seen my schedule for the next 15 days this morning, and starting tomorrow, my duty will be from 3 pm-11pm:). That means no more waking up early nor staying up until morning, and so much more sleep for me:) Even when I was still in college, 3-11 has always been my favorite shift in terms of getting enough rest while still being able to finish all the requirements. I like 7-3 because it's the busiest shift, and it's when the going gets tough that I feel I learn a lot of things about the job. I never liked 11-7 shift, for aside from the reason that it ruins my circadian rhythm, I don't think I could learn anything and remember it when I was so focused trying to stay awake. And now that I'm no longer a student, I would've wanted to stay at the 7-3 shift forever except that I really need to rest right now. I've been working for four straight days now, immediately after our trip to Manila and I haven't had an eight-hour sleep for days. My off will still be on the 18th but at least starting tonight I could already have long hours of sleep. Sleep has always been on top of my physiologic needs, sometimes even more important than food. My late Mama Josie used to reprimand me for taking eating for granted just to have a nap. She would always wake me up no matter how stubborn I am, and she always proves herself right at the end, when I finally concede and eat, not a little, but a lot..haha. All of us siblings are blessed with amazing sleeping skills:). Insomnia was rarely, if not never a problem for us, and our cousins always commend us for our special ability of sleeping in any vehicle no matter how uncomfortable our positions are, or how steep or rocky the road is. Also, Ate Angel and I have this bad habit of over-eating, aka stress-eating, whenever we lack sleep. On the other hand, we sometimes use sleep to prevent ourselves from eating since when you're asleep, you don't think about food or get hungry easily, but you still get to lose some of your calories. Well, if you will look at me and ate angel as 'sleep models', the message you'll probably get is that you lose not much calories really for had it been a lot, we would've been slimmer:). Knowing that, another message you would probably get is that we care more about sleep than our appearance. Physiologic needs, after all, are of higher priority than self-esteem needs:)

Now all this talk about sleep seems to make my body long for it even more, the same way I salivate just at the thought of any of my favorite foods:).  But I guess I'm actually starting to love blogging more than sleep, trying to stay awake right now to finish this and postpone my most coveted rest. blogging vs. sleep..and the winner is sleep..my body won! My eyelids are drooping right now so nyt for now! By the way I love my new header! I made it last night and it's quite a product of rigorous editing so I just wanna say I love it as congratulations to myself! nyt again! meow meow