Dressed 2nd time this week

I dressed Monday working from home which was nice, the first time in weeks and as mentioned so nice to get dressed up and made up etc .. Its not as enjoyable as it used to be working from home dressed maybe its because my job has got even more manic.

Yesterday an early start and a car journey of what should be 35-40 mins turned out to be an hour and a half :(

The meeting went on after 16:30 then took and hour and 20 mins to get home… It didn’t end there as I discovered today’s meeting location had changed from an hours drive away to two and a half hours away.. 5 hours of car journey plus 6 hour meeting and backlogs of things to do… Last week I was away Wed-Fri getting home late on the Friday evening .. so I worked at home from about 18:30 -22:30 to prep work to send to the meeting I was no way in hell travelling to.. I was knackered last night a 14 hour day all brain taxing which is underrated.. brain work can be just as knackering as manual work sometimes.. I snapped at the wife and kids which I regret .. bloody work winding me up I shouldn’t let it get to me but professionalism and pride … needs to make way for reality in that I have an impossible job which I cant possibly keep everyone happy and can only do so much and be in one place at one time… in a 35 hour paid week…. I'm covering 3 jobs.. this is how reorgs work make one willing man with pride cover 3 roles and it works as an engineer will find a way.

So offered my services over webex / phone conference and worked from home..

The phone rang and rang and rang .. working from home to avoid the disruption of being asked to help with things on and off my area of expertise in the office leads me to distraction and adds hours onto my week .. One heated phone call letting someone know I've worked my 35 hour week by Wednesday already with a long Friday, Monday and Tuesday and I thought sod this .. didn’t sleep last night due to work load and not letting it out of my head and work frustration I decided about 11:00 that I was dressing.. up the attic grabbed Davina, quick bath and shave and started putting makeup on phone rings.. not so easy doing ones make up whilst talking on the phone for 30 mins… so off the phone unhappy with the quality of my makeup sat down at my laptop and… the phone rang would I demonstrate something over webex “ok no problem” that was another hour gone.. wife came home for lunch and went back around 13:35 another hour and I'd have to change back to get the kids ..

Nice to be dressed the feeling is inexplicable and probably did calm me down considerably as if I hadn’t dressed I'd have been stressed more.. strange that.. but couldn’t enjoy being dressed up as was so hectic and I was back in male mode makeup removed by 14:10 a bit more work more phone calls and picked the kids up from school.. home more phone calls OMG this job is dragging me down.. but sadly I enjoy it but like anyone they could cut the job out of the organisation tomorrow not realising the commitment and specialism..

Need to find some unwinding time and need to get back out walking and jogging to help me unwind and feel more healthy…