Brandy!

I had to get up late this morning as I’ve been so tired since finishing nights Monday morning and then having to get back to work for Tuesday morning!!! I’ve had this really weird sleeping pattern since.

I’ve managed to get to work on time fine. Well, I say that. Tuesday I arrived at about 9:10am, which is not completely my fault, how was I supposed to know the traffic was going to be that bad on a Tuesday morning? I think I need to make sure I’m not driving down the ‘road of a thousand schools’ at 8:50, mental note made!

Anyway, bar making it to work and managing to get through the days with minimal cups of tea* and food related items (and only one patient dying) I seem to get home and need to have an hours sleep from 7-8pm. Which is very strange as I have never been able to sleep during the day before** but then I end up awake at 1am. Very suboptimal when I have to get up for work at 7am!

I’m sure I’m getting old! When we lived in the hospital (fun – yes, 20 of us all living together, great – yes, leaving two minutes before you have to be at work, incredible, awful – hell yes, after about 8 months you really don’t want to be sleeping a floor above your patients, and a week of nights… yeah you don’t even leave the hospital!) which was my first year post qualifying we frequently we up until 2, 3, 4am and at work at 8-9am again… I’d die if I had to do that now!

Anyway, so today after waking up at 7am, 8am, 10am and finally getting out of bed at 11am I’ve managed to weigh out all the fruit for my Christmas cakes and soak it all in brandy… which has made my kitchen smell somewhere between Christmas and a tramp!

I need to nip to the supermarket for more tins and some cash and then I can get cooking! They may well be awful… but who cares! I love baking, and the fruit mixture does look delicious!