Where on Wednesday twenty nine: Catching ZZZ's

To my great shame I almost missed this weeks' #whereonwednesday post due to an overloaded work day at the office and my exasperation over a 39°C day (102°F); Hot and bothered sort of covers it...Melted says it better.

The time is now 11:55pm Wednesday 29th January and I'm just about to go to sleep after a couple hours of building Lego. I'm that tired I'm actually stopping half way through stage five of the build which I usually never do.

I got to the office at 7am this morning, after rising at 5am to write a post for steem.

I was the first there which I hate because it means putting all the lights on...(I know, first-world problem.) I was in and out of the office like a Yo-Yo all day which meant moving from air conditioned comfort to a baking hot car, client meetings, more baking hot car and then air conditioned office again. It sucked. I finally arrived home at 6:30pm, fed the cats, played with them a little and made dinner. I ate by myself as Faith works late tonight and after doing a few exercises I cooled off and sat down to build some Lego. At last, some relaxation, my noggin thought as the stress of the day melted away...

I spent a few hours Lego-building, making the trailer section of the Mack Anthem, and chatted to my brother on the phone who is looking at buying a house in Finland right now. It seems the banking scenario is as bad there as it is here based on the issues he's having.

I stopped Lego-building long enough to write this and now, after posting it, I'm off to bed for some shut-eye before the round-about starts all over again tomorrow...Up at 6am, office at 7am work, work work...Struggle through a 42°C day (107°F) and home again etc.

Here's the thing though...Life isn't always what we want it to be...We can't be in the Maldives snorkelling in pristine waters, hiking up to Machu Picchu, sitting in a café on the Champs-Élysées in Paris, camped in the Flinders Ranges or any number of awesome places...Sometimes we have to be at work...I do anyway.

Whilst all of those places might be on the to-do list, or the go-back-and-do list none can happen without those 7am starts at the office and getting after it in the heat or cold, and at those times when I wish I was somewhere else than at work.

I'm a reward for effort guy and there's no free rides in my life - I earn what I have and work hard or it, like today, and tomorrow and so on et cetera. The effort I invest ensures that the rewards I enjoy are valued and respected.

So, here's me signing off on the twenty ninth week of doing #whereonwednesday posts and whilst I'd love to be somewhere amazing...Well, right now, falling into bed, having a cuddle with Faith, and catching some ZZZ's sounds pretty damned good too.

Night y'all.

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