Monday

 Monday Monday Monday. What to say about Monday. I definitely made a Monday out of this Monday, especially after being out every single night in the past two weeks except for the previous Tuesday! I left work about ten minutes after 5 and walked straight home, not even stopping anywhere or browsing shops or buying groceries, just straight home in the nice warm early evening, before the sun had truly faded from the sky. I even had a solid hour of daylight sitting in my bed looking out the window. I spent most of the night playing Star Ocean, which I greatly enjoyed, and washed my white ski jacket as soon as I got home. I think most of the dirt got washed away, except for the ever-hard to remove dirt on the ends of the sleeves. Let me say it felt really really good to walk home when it was light out for the first time in almost 2 weeks, and just sit around and do nothing until I couldn't stay awake any longer around 10:30pm. Any other night I would have been bored, but I had quite a satisfying night on Sunday, and quite a few excellent nights last week, parties, new friends, adventures, skiing, meeting a new family to babysit for. It was definitely a night to step it down a notch to be able to experience the thrills and highs of the last two weeks and the experiences yet to come.

I feel like I'm settling into my job a lot more, understanding the ins and outs, and getting used to the perks, such as having my freedom to manage my own time and have meals as I like. I spent the entire morning cleaning up the office bar area. At first I was just tidying up a few things, then I tried tackling the dish washer, then I thought it wouldn't take that much longer to do what I was doing, and before I knew it I had spent all morning cleaning when I probably should have just called the cleaners! I even got a bunch of pollen on my blue button down shirt from the wilted flowers I was getting rid of, but I pretty much drew the line at trying to set a fire while wearing clothes that weren't black, so I left that for the next day.

I spent the afternoon continuing to sort invoices, enter them in the computer, and continue to reject people calling soliciting payment. I was quite satisfied with myself, having kept myself quite busy during the day, varying my workload so I would keep motivated and actually being a senior member of the staff compared to our newest recruit, James, who was hired to manage Al's accounts, especially since Ann is away for another two weeks. James seems like a good guy, new to Queenstown and staying at Last Resort backpackers, which is where Sam and Ruth stayed for a few days because they knew the owners from the last time they were in Queenstown.

My Monday was quite mellow and relaxing, kind of like when you go crazy on vacation and then go back to work to relax!