Mission Morning

Good Morning!

Last night I worked until 10:00, and since this morning was my first 6:00 a.m. shift, I decided to sleep over at the Mission. That was to avoid driving home in the cold darkness just to sleep a few hours and then driving back this morning in the cold darkness. Yes, it's true. I have a little office bedroom to crash in. It has come in handy on more than one occasion.

Anyway, while it was a good idea in theory, it didn't pan out as planned. Firstly, I couldn't turn my brain off at 10:00, having just worked for 11 hours, and so I lay there awake for a long long time. I finally drifted to sleep when around midnight one of our guys was blah blah blahing...

I called the Nightwatchman on my cell phone: "Grant, who's talking out there?"

"Hm.. I don't know. I'll go see. [brief pause] It's Dustin. [Addressing Dustin now] Dustin, you just woke Michelle up."

"Oh. I did?"

Anyway, all was quiet after that, but I couldn't seem to get back to sleep for what seemed like an eternity.

So, without an alarm or very much sleep, I ambled out in my robe to chat with Grant at 5:30. He had began a soup base of tomatoes and squash for me and I began to put in the meatburger and carrots so it could stew until lunch time. I haven't decided if it will end up being soup or sloppy Joes. Depends how much water cooks out of it by then. The meatburger hadn't thawed yet so I had to nuke it in order for it to crumble in the mystery lunch dish.

We joked about his various stories about Jarad, my co-director, having worked the 6:00 a.m. shift for the past month or so. =) Yes, although he claimed to enjoy the morning shift, Grant's wake up calls produced a wide variety of responses!

So, Grant and I chatted for 20 minutes, at which point he had to leave for the bus.

I got to work and before 7:00 a.m. I:

-put a huge roast in the electric oven for supper
-put out a continental breakfast for the men and women
-made coffee for the ladies
-check the office computers from the defragging the night before
(one worked, one didn't)
-got all the old soup bowls for Jon to take to the Shelter this morning
-organized the breakfast areas
-wondered why Grant put out so much soya milk and other beverage products
-threw out some really scary stuff from the fridge

And now it's 7:30 and I'm simultaneously brushing my teeth and blogging.

Does this not just sound like the start of an ideal day?!

When Melanie gets in we are boing for a breakfast meeting.