Home for the Holidays

Okay so it's not my holidays but I am home. It seems sometimes that I spend more time in Brisbane than I do in Chinchi. I certainly have spent more of my days off here. But I have proper excuses. Such as this weekend, I have the engagement party of a very good friend as well as the goodbye party for my sister who is moving to Canada for a year. I will miss her lots but it's great to see her and I will be back next weekend to see her off at the airport.
It's nice to be home. I have my real bed which is twice the size of my current bed (can't wait to have a house so I can have my bed), I get to see my family and friends, I can sleep lots (cuz I am only home on my days off which means no work - Yay!) and I get to do stuff I can't do at home. It's strange and interesting having to homes. I leave home to go home no matter which way I am travelling. But I am starting to feeling accustomed to my life there and I miss it when I am away. Actually I miss life here when I'm not here too but at least I get to have both.
I had such a great day at work yesterday. I decided to have a good day. As I said to another staff member, "I am having a good day, by choice not by circumstance". Which was good because the circumstances of the shift yesterday were pretty busy, difficult and stressful but I kept choosing to have a good day and by then end of shift I was still having a good day. Granted this week was the first in a long time that I wasnt sleep deprived.
I have discoved a great way to catch up on sleep. Get sick. Then you can take the day off work and you feel so rotten that you stay in bed anyway and your body needs to sleep and so it does. That was my strategy this week at least. Not that I planned the getting sick (and certainly couldnt control it) but it meant that over 2 days I probably got about 24hrs of sleep. I felt so good after that. But it accidentally erased some of that by staying up late talking to a friend last night. Ah well, better have a nap today then.