Oof, first day back to work in 3 months 😬

I’m a bartender. I only did 5 1/2 hours and I am hurting bad. It’s hard not to overdo it at our restaurant without feeling like dead weight on the team. My feet are like balloons, everything below my chest feels heavy and achy, my hands even swelled up like crazy halfway through and I had to take off my wedding ring.

The worst part is that my restaurant isn’t enforcing phase 1 restrictions at all and that freaks me out. I’m already on a nebulizer twice a day for trouble breathing (normal pregnancy stuff plus I have horrible asthma) and watching the customers and managers not have a care in the world stressed me tf out. They even found a loophole to the “no sitting at the bar” restriction and just put tables against the bar so they’re technically sitting at a table, not the bar. 🙄 About 30 regulars sitting shoulder to shoulder at the makeshift bar tables, standing to talk to each other, dancing middle school style with no masks. It was a little shocking, I expected my restaurant to take the reopening guidelines seriously. It’s a little stressful.

This is just a vent as I try to get my swelling down so forgive my complaining. As a side note, I think it’s time to start driving Lyft or Uber so I can stress a little less. 😬🤣