Working Overnight

I just finished by first full week of working overnights at CVS, and I must say it is the greatest thing ever.  I realize that the store I am working at just became a 24 hour store, so the inhabitant of Gary/Merrillville are still figuring out that I am an easy target to murder/rob, but in the mean time I am loving every minute of it.  I usually finish all work by about 3am.  My shift last from 9pm to 8am.  Here is a run down of how the night usually progresses.

• 9pm:  Arrive at the store and think to myself, 'What the fuck did they do all day?'
• 11pm:  Just about finish filling everything and say goodnight to by evening technician
• 11pm-12am:  Read my Kindle
• 12am:  Readyfill aka "Dreadyfill" (Compliments of Sampstar) drop in.  Roughly 100 prescriptions
• 2am:  Finishing filling and checking all prescriptions
• 3am:  Finish all Kindle and watch movies on my laptop
• 7am:  People start waking up and keep me moderately busy until I leave at 8am
• 8am:  Drive home without falling asleep

The 3am-7am movie watching and Kindle reading really make this experience complete.  I usually have 3 customers a night after midnight and about as many phone calls.  I have gone from wanting to kill everyone I encounter to almost reading the whole Hunger Games trilogy and watching all the Harry Potter movies in one week.  Pretty sweet deal.

Holiday Detox Week Seven/Eight

I have started a new work schedule where I work seven days in a row and then have seven days off, which has changed by drinking habits.  I am working midnights, so on my work week, I cannot drink unless I want to do it at 8 in the morning.  This more or less results in one guaranteed week of sobriety and one week in a drunken stupor.  Which is much better than two consecutive weeks of being in a drunken haze.  So, all and all, this is a good thing.  The only bad part is, it is hard to work out during my on week.  Working 80 hours in seven days does not leave a lot of energy or desire to head to the gym.  Hopefully it will get easier as I get more used to the schedule.  If anyone tries to call me on a Wednesday night, you will get no response for two possible reasons.  Number one, I just started by first night and will be MIA for the next seven nights.  Number two, I got drunk immediately after getting of work at 8am Wednesday morning and will be passed out for the the next twenty hours trying to get back on a normal sleep schedule.  So far, I would rate the detox a success overall, I have exercised more often and confined my drinking to an average of one huge binge a week.  I don't know at what point the detox stops being a holiday detox and just recovery of a crazy person though.

Holiday Detox Week Six

So far, so good.  I am going on a brewery tour throughout Chicago today though, so my good streak will come to a screeching halt.  I am starting to work midnights this coming week, which entails a seven day on seven day off work routine.  I get the feeling that every other week will be detox and the other a drunken stupor.  I am going to be working nights in Merrillville/Gary.  Should be an interesting overnight crowd.  I am currently looking into having a Kevlar white pharmacist coat made to protect me.  More to follow on the new gig.

Holiday Detox Week Five

Currently on my fifth beer, so you can take from that what you will.  I did work out everyday this week, so that's a plus.  I also ran 8 miles this morning, and have only drank 1 vitamin water accompanied by 5 beers all day, so you can take from that what you will.  On an unrelated note, I just watched the movie Real Steal.  It was actually pretty good.  I think I will have a permanent man crush on Hugh Jackman as Wolverine, I will just have amnesia to the last 2 X-Men movies.  I consider working out six days a week, getting mildly buzzed 4 days a week, and getting shit faced 1 day a week as totally normal.  That leaves 2 days of detox, what more can one ask for.  Back to the movie though, pretty inspiring stuff.  Makes me want to start making robots to kick the shit out of my pharmacy customers.  I can't wait for the future.

Holiday Detox Week Four

Week four?  What happened to week three?  Week three was spent off the wagon for the most part.  Not really drunk every night, but a little buzzed most of the time.  As usual I blame work.  Trying to get back into good habits, but a work schedule that changes from day to day via text message is waning on my sanity.  Unfortunately not a whole lot else going on.  I will be more entertaining soon.  Or as entertaining as I can be.

Holiday Detox Week Two

Detox was going great until this weekend.  I fell off the wagon Saturday night.  Four beers and three long islands later, I was not feeling so hot.  The next two days I was back on track, then somehow managed to drink a bottle of wine last night with dinner.  At least I have kept running and working out pretty regularly, so I may have cancelled out my backslides somewhat.  Detox on!

Holiday Detox Week One

After spending the last 2 weeks in a diabetic/alcohol induced coma, my post-holiday detoxification has begun.  After one week, I have been alcohol free and pretty much lived on Lean Cuisines.  So far so good.  Not a great week to stop drinking.  The first few weeks of the new year are notoriously rough in retail pharmacy due to the moron customers not realizing their insurance has changed, and that deductibles were not just something you do once in a lifetime.  An insane amount of transfers from Wags has also been brutal on my sanity.  The only thing good about sticking to the detox this week was that if I didn't have it in my mind that I was going to be doing it, I probably would have been doing shots at work out of prescription bottles.  I did land myself a sweet gig for roughly the next 2 weeks going to stores after they close and entering all the extra prescriptions.  Retail pharmacy actually isn't too bad once you remove dealing with people from the equation.  Also adding to the positive mental attitude of the detox, I was able to play golf today.  Not often that occurs in January, and on top of that we got to play for free.  Due to the lack of alcohol to keep me entertained over the next few weeks, I will try and blog a little more often.  Good for my brain, not so good for you.