Brain Power

So yesterday was a very wacky day for me. I worked lunch – and it was a failry busy one. However, it didn’t really matter how busy it was because my brain just would not engage.
Let me explain. I can normally take food and drink orders from tables – sometimes several at a time- without writing the orders down, and still not screw up. I can do this probably because the restaurant I work for has been one I’ve worked for on and off for 18 years, so I know their menu,. as well as computer systems pretty good. (Oh, and the bar/pub/lounge I work at right now is part of the building, sharing a kitchen and menu with the restaurant. Make sense?)

Anyway, Yesterday my brain would not engage.

I’d go to a table of two and take thier drink order. Just thier drink order. And by the time I was back in the service area I’d have forgotten what they wanted to drink.

It happens every now and then. Lack of concentration, whatever. Anyway, afetr my shift was over it continued into my own home life. The most notable time, I went to the kitchen to refil my waterbottle (I use a refillable Nalgene bottle) put it down, continued to the washroom. Then went to get my bottle before going back to my desk. And couldn’t find it.

I looked everywhere for that water bottle. The kitchen, the fridge, the bathroom, even my bedroom(just in case). I looked on my desk, under my desk. I looked everywhere. I gave up and went back to work. Then half an hour later was hungry, and went to put a microwave dinner out of the freezer, and found my water bottle.

Seriously, no clue what was up with me. So this morning, when I sat down to work, and my brain wouldn’t engage, and my muse was in hiding, I went to the gym for the first time in three months. So far it’s worked. My brain feels awake once again.

What works to wake you up?