Do I miss the holiday season?, the answer to that question happens to be a yes and a no because I do have mixed feelings there.
I would say yes because I had a rather wonderful holiday and believe it or not, I wished it didn't have to come to an end. My Boss gave all workers our holiday break effective from 23rd December last year to end on the 6th of January this year. I was so elated that I almost jumped out of my skin with excitement, he had given us a whooping two weeks off, that was time enough to relish the holiday period with my family and of course have a little time for me, myself and I.
I was this excited because due to the large number of deliveries we had to make prior to the holiday season, I was fairly certain that we might not be able to meet up and as such, we would only have a few days break or none at all. Thankfully,that didn't happen because we were able to meet up with all our deliveries and still have enough time to pamper ourselves before the new year. Hence,my holiday began, I purposely switched off my alarms so that I could sleep in and make up for the sleep I had lost throughout the year. When I did wake up, I'd tend to my regular chores, fix myself something to eat, watch T.V or read a novel for a while, take a quick shower and head right back to bed for a second round of my nap ( I was really going hard on regaining that lost sleep). There were some days when this schedule was subject to change for one reason or the other but it didn't separate me from the kitchen or the bedroom cause I still ate what I wanted when I wanted and my afternoon sleep was not to be tampered with. For the average introvert, I can say I was literally living the life as I only went out when it was absolutely necessary so yes, I do miss the holiday season.
Now as to why I said no earlier, the only thing I love as much as staying indoors is going out to make money.
As my work leave gradually came to an end and resumption date drew closer, I was quite eager to return to work. Turns out that I indeed missed the familiar sights of customers trouping in and out of the workshop, the smell of gum on leather or the harsh sting of dye on my nostrils as I applied them on soles, the sound of the bench grinder humming as we used it to work, the hammer beating the shoes to perfection but most importantly, I missed the credit alert notifications that popped up on my screen after a job well done.
Switching back to my normal work routine hasn't been particularly easy though, first step was to turn on my alarms and set the ring to full blast, I'll need that to jolt me out of dreamland as I really can't afford to be late to work. My temporary habit of sleeping heavily in the afternoon still haunts me as I sometimes feel my eyelids getting heavy during my work time, we all know it won't end well for me if I yield to this particular temptation and my employer sets his eyes on me so I fight the urge to nap and so far, I have always emerged victorious. Although one time, I didn't win this fight till I had hit my hand with the hammer instead of the shoe, that chased the sleep from my eyes really fast. It's no longer an all you can eat buffet at my comfort time because I'm either limited to the lunch I pack from home or the money I'm going to use to get lunch, back to working for long hours with limited sleep time and early waking hours all to achieve the desired results.
As I said earlier, the switch up hasn't been easy, in all sincerity, it has been really stressful and tiring trying to adjust and will my body to go back to its normal work routine but then I'm not perturbed because adapt....I shall and hustle.....I must.