The Art of Stamina

God is a surprising character, I must say.
Since I started this blog, every time I say I want to learn the art of something, I seriously learn it.
Today might have been the craziest day of my entire life. It started off with my doing the paper route with Chris. That took way too long... but all papers were delivered and on time! That was one part of stamina learned.
After that, we went to work at 930. The company called RLI bought out Jillians from 11 to 3 so during that time, everything was insane. Everything we did was for the convenience of the guests. And let me tell ya.... other servers and managers were not bein so nice to everyone else. But that was the result of the stress of the afternoon, because after that everyone was pretty much back to normal. (unless they were a brat to begin with...then they just stayed being a brat.)
After that humongo party left, I worked a rehearsal dinner with another server there. That one went actually pretty well. The people were all in good moods because of the wedding coming up. But my feet still hurt like crap.
After that party left, in came the stress of my day. I learned that the last party I was assigned to work (which was at 10 pm, so I was tired and cranky and sore) was a shop.
[For those of you who don't know, a 'shop' is when a 'secret shopper' will come in and dine with us. Corporate has sent them to evaluate us. We get them once or twice a month.]
This month, our shopper decided to do banquets, which is what I happened to be working this particular day.
I prayed for an hour that it would go smoothly.
Guess what? God answers prayers. I didn't mess up anything, and I answered all the questions they asked me about the food and drinks and stuff like that.
So, what is the art of stamina?
It's being up since 3 am and working until 1245 and having to be on your best behavior because you're being evaluated at your last hours.
It's knowing that even when I wanted to just leave, praying will always get me through it.
The art of stamina is what I learned today. Today was crazy insane, but will be a big part of the painting that is my life. Because every part of life is an art.
Tomorrow, I learn the art of appreciation.