Time is of the Essence!

I was thinking today how a shift at work is so similar to waiting for Tom. Work can either drag on or go by incredibly fast. The shifts that go by incredibly fast are the busy days, like Saturdays. I am constantly ringing up guests, constantly moving so that I'm not constantly checking the clock to see how much time I have left, or how much longer until my next break. I just go guest by guest until I'm done. And by the time my shift is over, it feels as if I had just arrived. That's the same with waiting.

See, I have discovered over the past year that time goes by much much faster when I keep myself busy. The busier I am, the better. Days go by much faster, and I'm not sitting around waiting to cross the next month off the calender, or waiting for Tuesday to roll around so I can read an email from him, or waiting for a letter to arrive. If I keep myself busy and just live life day to day, it goes by faster. And, more importantly, I am happier. I don't sit around thinking about him, missing him. It's better that way.

But then at work everything changes with that last hour of my shift. The last hour always drags on and on and on and on...I think, actually I know, it's because I check the clock so much. I get so excited that it's finally almost time to go home, so I check the clock after almost every guest. The average transaction takes a minute to complete...ha! Yeah, it gets bad. And so I am thinkin' that's what the final month, probably more than a month, is going to be like. I think it's just going to draaaaag on. I'm prepared for it. I know I'm going to be counting the days, and once it's close enough, even the hours until he comes home to me.

But for now, I'll focus on just being giddy about the fact that we've just about hit that half way mark! Time's definitely been moving fast enough so far!