work schedule & roommates

so to finish up my work schedule, I get home around 7:30 am. I usually run to the bathroom, take a shower, eat a little something and try to get to bed. But the rest of the world is waking up. My phone starts buzzing. I try to be in bed by 8 so I can get 7 hours but if I end up on the phone with somebody, It's 9 and I get 5 hours sleep. Some of the shift goes directly to the pool when we get back to our building to cool off and settle in. It's hard to go straight to sleep. You'll be sitting on the bus home, ready to zonk out, but then as soon as you get home and start your routine, bam, you're awake. So you either have to go straight to bed and literally not do a single thing other than take off your clothes or hurry to get things done & take a sleeping pill. I have discovered that if I take one tylenol PM, I can get up in 6 hours no problem. I don't think I can do the straight to bed routine because that means your going to bed dirty and nasty. There's no way I have time to wash my sheets sufficiently to do that.
After a paycheck or two I will get a maid. It is so cheap and I've heard good things. I think it's like 7KD a month for once a week which is $26. That way I can enjoy my days off and I won't tick off my roommate.
oh, so let me update you on the roommates. During the initial weeks, my first roommate accused me of stealing stuff from her room. She also accused one of my friends and had a whole paranoid view of what was going on in the world. I filed a 7 page report with my sargeant. I don't have a printer so I had to hand write it. ugh. I don't need to disparage her or go into details because her world is spinning around as a result of who she is right now. It's her situation to deal with more so than mine. I filed my report and the powers to be know how it is. Suffice to say, I was offered to move into one of my superiors apartments but unrelated circumstances prevented that from happening. Now that we are on opposite shifts, she's day shift, we don't see each other. I was worried that she would accuse me of stealing her food, laundry, etc but like I said, the report is on file, and my ass is covered going forward. They are "monitoring" her.
Then last week another roommate shows up. She is super nice and sweet. I totally hit the jackpot with this one. She is originally from Ethiopia but her English is pretty good. She was living in US prior to coming here. She cooked a dish from Ethiopia the first night and shared with me. It was delicious and flavourful. You would have been surprised that I ate it. Then she went to the market that night with a friend of hers that lives here. She bought 2 scarfs and let me pick one out that I liked. It was Aqua/light teal colored. perfect. matched half of my stuff. And then 2 days later she left some spaghetti dinner in the fridge for me.
I was going to move to another apartment but I think I'll hang out for a while. Hopefully roommate number 1 will move on to something else. Win some, loose some.....