Friday, March 27, 2015

A Day In The Life


A few weeks ago, Trish (Love, Laughter, and A Touch of Insanity) shared with her readers what both work days and days at home were like for her and now she's asking for fellow bloggers to share as well. You know, maybe all share that our lives can maybe be just a little bit crazy, a little bit less than perfect. I'll admit that I kind of forgot about doing it and probably should have done it last week which would have been a more "usual" day. Instead you get yesterday. Which had some less than normal things going on.

6:05 My alarm goes off for the first time
6:15 My alarm goes off for the second time
6:20 My alarm goes off for the third time. The emergency "just in case I shut off the first two times without getting up" alarm. I finally, literally, roll out of bed.

6:22 I hit the kitchen: start the coffee, feed the cats their wet food, then sit down for a bowl of cereal and a little reading of Light In August while out of the corner of my eye I watch the local news
6:30 I have to take a break and feed the cats their dry food...because they're high maintenance that way
6:45 Time to get in the shower, dressed and the basic makeup on


7:10 Grab my coffee, lunch, book and I'm out the door. Why yes, my hair is still wet. The car heater and a hair brush will have to do today (surprisingly, it ends up looking quite good). The rest of my makeup gets put on at red lights. Yep, I'm that woman.

7:45 Start my work day
9:00 Team meeting - what happened to snacks at these meetings anyway?
2:00 Lunch time - I've already eaten my lunch at my desk but this is my chance to break away for a bit and do some more reading
2:45 Back to work
5:15 My desk is all tidy and I'm ready to leave for the day. I'm the only person on the team whose desk looks this neat at day's end. They are all convinced this is the way I live my life. Little do they know!

5:50 Snow flakes start appearing in the rain drops. Cursing is heard in my vehicle.

6:00 Because The Big Guy is out of town this week, I stop for dinner at Applebee's, where Miss H is bartending and we can chat while she works and I eat. I did not eat all of that food but I did drink that wine in the background.

7:15 Stop by the house to give Mini-him the food I picked up for him then we load a Goodwill delivery in my Pilot. How can we have this much stuff to get rid of every few months?
7:45 Dropped off 8 bags and then we head to Lowe's looking for a rug Mini-him's bedroom in the house he's moving into this weekend. Ten minutes later, we leave empty handed.
8:10 We're going to take a twenty minute break and watch some Sweet Sixteen basketball.

9:00 Game over, we finally get to work. He works on computer stuff; I start packing his room, do three loads of laundry, move boxes into our dining room staging area and put together a plan for today.
12:20 Remember that I still have to type up this post. And that I never got the vacuuming done. I am essentially wearing cat hair slippers by the time I head up the stairs for bed. At 1 a.m.



27 comments:

  1. It's very refreshing to see what a day looks like when there aren't teeny people hanging off your legs all the time! I do feel like meetings should always have snacks,there must have been research done about it increasing productivitiy levels or something!!

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  2. Love the multiple morning alarms. :)

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  3. Oh my word. You are a wonder woman. LOL

    Love the little funny asides and "cat hair slippers". Maybe I could come vacuum - oh wait, I hate vacuuming. :-)

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  4. My work day pretty much is like yours. A few meetings, lunch at desk, an overly tidy desk that is a far cry from the clutter in my home, lol.

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  5. Love this! Also, that Applebees food looks delicious in your pic.

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  6. Yikes! That's a long day. Glad to know we're not the only house to generate an inordinate amount of Goodwill material.

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  7. Oh I can never leave the house with wet hair, it takes forever to dry if I do (as in I can come back home and still have wet patches, it's horrible). I also do the set of alarms, specially on days I have to wake up extra early. Thanks for sharing!

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  8. 1am! Just kill me. I am SO not a night owl.

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  9. The series of alarms, the high-maintenance animals. Ohhhh, I get it. I'm right there with you.

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  10. So you have a long day too. Hey, my desk is tidy when I leave for the day too. I can't have piles everywhere when I come in the next day.

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  11. Wow! Sounds like a crazy day. Getting people moved always seems to take forever. The cat hair slippers made me laugh. That's what happens here unless I stay on top of the vacuuming!

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  12. Is there such a thing as a usual day? When I think I'll have one, something screws it up :)

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  13. I wish my desk were neat and tidy at the end of the day. A coworker asked me this morning when I'm going to clear mine off. The answer, of course, is someday.

    I forgot to type up my post until last night, too. This is so fun!

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  14. Cat hair slippers. Ha!! And like you, if I set an alarm (yes, if), I snooze it about a billion times. I also have my radio clock set forward 10ish minutes to trick my sleepy brain into thinking it's later than it is. After 18 years this trick still works for me.

    Busy day!! And like you I used to eat lunch at my desk so that I could maximize my lunch hour for reading. ;) Glad you participated Lisa!

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  15. I love this! My husband sets multiple alarms, too. It's hard getting up in the morning. When I worked I pretty much left the house with wet hair most mornings. It always dried eventually. :)

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  16. Thank you for sharing your day with us! You had a busy one! Packing is never any fun--at least not for me.

    My cats have a similar meal routine in the mornings. LOL Wet and dry food. I don't think my eyes would still be able to stay open as late as you were up.

    I probably don't vacuum as much as I should, especially given the cats are in the house more than the humans are.

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  17. I have to feed the cats first thing in the morning too or they won't let me eat my bagel. They are like toddlers.

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  18. Wow - I can NOT wake up that early when I stay up until 1 am! I am a 7 hours of sleep girl, for sure.

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  19. I am laughing (with you, hopefully) at the three alarms. I only have two...obviously, I like to live dangerously. I find it incredibly difficult to get out of bed, although once I'm out of bed, it's not so bad.

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  20. If your days are all as long as packed as this one, I don't know how you do it! I'm glad to know I'm not the only one taking lunch at 2 in the afternoon, though :).

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  21. Whew, long day! I make trips like that Goodwill every few months too -- where does all of that stuff come from??

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  22. Great post! It sounds like you had a very long day. I love Applebees.

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  23. Great recap! I wake up without an alarm unless I have to be someone really early then I am always afraid that will be the one day I sleep in so I set an alarm then :)

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  24. Alarms! LOL! I dont use one as I am usually awake by 7 am but I do set one on the days I know I need to be somewhere in fear that will be the one day I do not wake up early. :)

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  25. That is a long day. I would love to see the fall post once you have been an empty nester for a while. No 1 AM bedtimes, right?

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  26. Those darn snooze buttons!! It sounds like a long day, but satisfying since it sounds productive too!

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  27. I guess I should count myself lucky that I don't need an alarm. I have dogs. and WHAT A LONG DAY! House feel really quiet?

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