Over the last week or so, since our sudden move began, I’ve had a sudden realization, a wake up call. I’ve had the realization that over the last 6 months since I have been in the control room at my job that I’ve gotten way out of shape. Originally when I first started there I would walk anywhere from 3 to 7 miles a day. This I know because I would wear a pedometer to work every day to see how much I was doing. Now that I’m in the control room, I’m lucky if I walk 100 yards all day, besides the walk to and from my car.

Over the last week since I started moving all this furniture, I’ve continually found myself out of breath and tired. Also added to that is the fact that I had just quit smoking about 2 years ago and the excercise I was getting when I first started was taking off most of the weight I put on after I quit smoking. Now I’ve put that back on and few more pounds.

It’s now time for me to wake up and smell the coffee and renew my YMCA membership and get back to the gym. If not just for myself but for my kids, so I can be healthy enough to see them grow up. Not that I have any real control over how long I’ll live or anything but why add another risk factor for my health.

Although it is only Tuesday my week is already half over. My week began on Saturday this weekend, and already I have logged 36 hours of work since then. Today will be my only day off and I will have to do two “24 hour turnarounds”, meaning I work a 12 hour shift on nights, and turnaround to work on the day shift less than 24 hours later, then turnaround again back to nights in another 24 hours. This is only the second worst part of my week. The really crummy part of my week comes tomorrow (my day shift) when I have to help clean a distillation column(beer column) at my workplace.

This is a wet nasty job(worthy of Dirty Jobs, w/ Mike Rowe). This means that all day tomorrow I will be soaking wet, and the high temperature for tomorrow is looking to be about 40 degrees if we are lucky.

Afterwards I get to return to work again Thursday, and Friday night for the remainder of my work week.  My grand total hours worked will be around 68+ hours for this week.

What a long week…sigh…I am looking forward to a calm relaxing 3 day weekend this coming Saturday, to spend with my wife and son.