So we are on our 4 week of the lovely graveyard shift and most of the time I absolutely hate it! But ask me again in about 3 weeks and I will probably be one happy camper. lol You see something my husband and I truly value right now is the time we get to spend together. Since we do not have kids yet and I have the choice of working my jobs part time we really have gotten use to spending like 3-4 days together every week. But with graves that has really been cut. Right now he has been working Thursday nights- Sunday nights (not including when he gets called to court). I teach Monday, Wednesday and Friday and try to work my business on the weekends. So here is how our schedule have been going...
Friday he gets home around 6-7a in which I get up for work at 6a and im out the door by 7:30a. I go teach and work till about 2p I get home just in time to have a meal with my husband (maybe) and then he is off to work which starts at 5p
Saturdays are nice because he comes home around 6-7a so I get to enjoy a few hours in bed next to my husband but I am a morning person so I get up so he can sleep and do whatever I need to, which sometimes can be an appointment or delivery around the time he gets up for work so we may not get to see each other.
Sundays he gets home around 6-7a and I have to get up and get ready for church. About the time I get home from church he is getting up and ready for work, get to kiss him goodbye.
Monday he gets home around 6-7a in which I get up for work at 6a and im out the door by 7:30a.
Tuesday we get to relax together but sometimes he had court, sometimes I have deliveries.
Wednesday I teach till 3:30 but then we do stay up late so that he can stay on his nights awake routine which can be fun.
Thursdays he could have court before he has his actual shift and if so he goes in at about 12:30p, if not he could go in at 5p or have an 8 hour shift where he doesn't go in till 9p, all depends.
Then the cycle starts all over again.
Now some people are probably thinking "why would he even go to court then that take away from his sleep and down time". Yes but the CHP get overtime for court and that is some easy overtime so why not. Especially when we are currently saving to buy a home this month. This week alone he had 12 hours of overtime just for going to court. Plus he did a 9 1/2 hour overtime detail ( I was out of town on business so he figured just keep going). So this week alone he did 21 1/2 hours overtime. That is a good chunk of change! This is where my love relationship for graves comes in. He already get an increase in pay for doing graves and then top it off with the amount of overtime he can get too! We will have that down payment for our home by the end of the summer!
So not only is his paycheck going to be more, the overtime that will be coming is will be so much more as well. But I really do not like not seeing him for much during the times he is working but giving up a little bit now while we don't really need to care too much about it so that we can have what we want by the end of the year. Hopefully we are only suppose to be on grave till the end of Sept so 3 months to give up is not too bad at all. The hopefully he can go up north for 2 weeks and get this motor things going too!
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