Endure

Seven years ago, we were going through the process of buying House. Today, one of our best scrubs, hard working, smart, funny, needed to have Boxing Day morning to sign on her new house. I offered to help cover, since there was pretty much no one else off that day. We are short staffed, and long scheduled, this month. It's not what I'd like to do, only going to get the normal one day off for Christmas, and I'm feeling like I'd love to take a month off. But, I will not grumble. When Karma presents it's bill, best to pay it in full and immediately, otherwise the interest accrues really fast.

We also have friends moving this weekend, their apartment building undergoing renovations, so they had to find a new place to life. I will hide my aches and fatigue and we will use our car, that is bigger on the inside than the outside. Or so it's always seemed, through several moves, and how much furniture we've put in it.

Two long difficult days. More in the queue. We do our best to cover people for lunches. Our manager came in and mopped and opened with us. She's a peach.

There will be a slackening off, maybe sooner than we'd like. So, I stay cheerful, and do my best to squelch complaint, even inside my own head. It helps, to stay positive, or at least neutral.

We endure.