Tuesday, 31st of January 2023 [38]
In my wildest dreams I didn’t expect myself to be writing another post today. I’m totally, utterly wiped out. I had 0 sleep last night and I went to work straight from the airport this morning.
I had to get up at 3:20am today in order to catch my flight at 6:15 this morning. Half past midnight I was still watching figure skating, but my eyes were getting heavy, so I was hoping to catch around 3h of sleep.
Mum turned off the tv and that’s when I could fully hear the party going on at downstairs neighbours flat. There were laud conversations and singing and the music volume was up and down like a yoyo.
Usually things like this don’t bother me, but it was getting later and later and the music lauder and lauder. On a Monday night!
At some point I had enough and I run downstairs and started ringing the neighbours doorbell about 50 times. When he finally opened, I told him I will call police if he doesn’t turn this party down.
That worked well, music was down and dad was laughing his head off when I came back upstairs. It was for nothing though. I was so shaken, that I was not able to sleep. At best, I drifted away into my fantasies, which almost felt like sleeping, but my body knew it had no sleep.
I got up earlier than planned and made myself a very strong coffee. Only then I realised that I haven’t completed my online check in for the fight and when I opened my app to try, it said the online check-in was closed.
That really raised my pulse. Now I was in a full on fight or fight mode. I finished my hot coffee, brushed teeth and run out of the house.
The snow ❄️ I was waiting for all week came out with full strength on our drive to the airport. It was so bad, I thought we’ll end up on the side of the road and up side down.
At the airport it turned out I had to pay £40 for checking in! Those cheap airlines really do their best to earn back what we save on the flight prices.
Not sure why I thought that downing 2 energy drinks on the way to the airport was a good idea. Once I finally checked in, my body and mind were fully awake.
I chatted with people on Hive till the very last moment I had wifi, which was right after we took off. Lights were off and inviting to sleep, so I put the phones away and I drifted away into another fantasy, but still no sleep.
We landed a bit later than scheduled and I grabbed another coffee from Costa at the airport. Then… I put on the jacket and walked away without my coffee. I walked all the way to the bus stop, showed driver my ticket 🎟️ and he informed me that I can get on the next bus.
I stood there for another 3-5 minutes when I finally realised I have no coffee. I walked all the way back to the terminal and surprisingly my coffee was still right where I left it. Bloody walking zombie I was 🧟♀️
Walked back and the bus arrived soon after. While in the bus, I saw the post by @HiveBuzz about Power Up Month. I did my last 1 Hive power up this morning and this completed my 31 days journey of powering up/posting 100% power up articles.
Seriously, it wasn’t even planned. It was a spur of the moment. Last PUD I felt disappointed, as I spent all my Hive on #P2E games and that sabotagged my my goal of completing every single #PUD of 2023. My day 1 power up was however completed thanks to @jane1289 who wanted to get her power up helped badge. Unfortunately I already participated in one PUD in December, so Jane’s power up to my account didn’t qualify her for the badge, but she brought back #hope and sparked the powering up spirit in me and I just carried on from there… for another 30 days.
It was touch and go at times. Once or twice I had to make a post that I wasn’t planning on writing with 100% powered up payout, as I literally had 0 Hive and nowhere to take it from.
But hey… my blood and sweat paid off! I completed the month with 31 green marks in my calendar and realising it on the bus to the carpark gave me a spark of energy I needed to survive at work today.
Surviving wasn’t even the right word. It was a very interesting day at work. When I dropped my boss a text after picking up my car with ETA, he was happy, but said my young colleague wasn’t in. Once I arrived at work around 11am, it turned out I had a whole big mystery to unravel.
Pulling the #thread resulted in untangling a complex situation to everyone’s satisfaction and so did I leave work with the feeling of #accomplishment, which is the best way to leave work any day. Especially the day that I was running on fumes and could explode any give moment 😉
So here I am. Dreaming of good night sleep, but typing another post to share my rant and happiness with friends on Hive. I guess I kinda grew to like the sense of accomplishment steaming from posting daily, despite the mood and/or level or tiredness.
Who knows? Maybe I’ll brave out into achieving a ‘Monthly Author’ badge one of those beautiful months of 2023?
For now, I patiently await this beautiful badge to show up on my account when I get up to work tomorrow 😍
Until next time 💙