Describe your average day!

[Head Mutant]

As just a way for all of us to perhaps get to know each other better and bond as friends and forumites, why not share a sample description/schedule of your average day?

Oh, fine, I'll start.

My job puts me on a really weird work schedule of two long days (Sundays and Wednesdays) and three regular days (Mon, Tues and Fri). I'll just describe a regular day.

Get up at 6am, because my wife wakes up. I promptly go back to sleep.

Get up -again- at 7am, shuffle off to shower and dress and hug Caramel goodbye.

From 730-830 I feed my rabbit, check e-mail, and spend time doing the MRFH update. On days I get up later, this might stretch until 9 or so.

I leave for work ~830, get some breakfast and a large decaf coffee, and head to church.

I'm most productive in my morning hours, so from 9-noon is when I get a bulk of my paperwork done (youth ministry is sometimes 10% actual person-to-person ministry and 90% preparation, writing, organizing, budgeting and other administrative tasks).

I do a huge variety of stuff at work, but I know I'm fortunate enough to have a job where I can fool around, as long as I get my work done. I often put on a podcast or listen to an online sermon while doing particularly odious chores. Sometimes I'll call Pooly and bug him for a while while I have to clean my office.

Have lunch with my wife (she works two miles away) from 1130-1230.

Stay at work until 2 or so. Generally I'm about as productive as your average tree sloth or Josh Harnett during this siesta period.

Head on home (I know, I know, it's early... keep in mind my long days are 13 hours, on average). I do chores, exercise bike, prepare dinner and play games.

Wife comes home and we do eBay together and I get dinner ready (I love to cook). We then will do something fun together, like go for a walk or watch a movie.

Caramel goes to bed at 9, which frees me up for my Serious Gaming Time (tm) until about midnight.

And that's a wrap.

[TheOogieBoogieMan]

Ok, uh...

On a typical day, I wake up between 7:40 and 8 am, depending on how I respond to the alarm clock.

I'm at school by 8:30, where I do very little through the day cause my courses this semester carry a light workload (and I'm just phoning in the minute work I have to do now, since I'm graduating from high school in a month and a half (yes!)). I have a period 2 (9:50-11:10 am) spare, so I spend that time reading, sleeping, talking to friends, or all three at once. I finish up the school day at 2:30, and I'm home by 3.

The rest of the day I do a whole lotta nothing. I read (just finished Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin), watch TV (mostly Seinfeld, Raymond, Drew Carey Show, and Roseanne re-runs), listen to podcasts (my favorites being Punky Radio, Mediocre Show, and Ask a Ninja), listen to random CDs, do homework, if I feel like it, and play some games (which right now is just Kid Chameleon, courtesy of a Sega Genesis emulator). This bustle of non-productive activity is interrupted by dinner, sometime between 6 and 8, a shower at around 9:30 (I'm too dead in the mornings to force myself into a shower), and random sprinkles of family socializing. Mmmm, sprinkles...

Aaaaaand after a long day, I go sleepy at about midnight.

Chew on that, peoples.

[blinkfan]

I get up at 7:30 am eat,Get in the shower watch kids in the hall and then walk to school then i basically read or fool around until lunch then go back to school do serious work come home go on the internet and listen to all the songs on my media player go biking then go to rogers video to browse at movies then i either watch tv or work at this nice elderly couples house get paid then go to rogers buy a dvd then go to bed. end-of-day

[dajaymann]

I have, like, the best day schedule ever:

Wake up approx. 8 am. Or, more appropriately, I am woken up by my wife, my daughter, or both. Usually she (the wife) comes up with some sort of excuse to wake me up (example: this morning she wanted me to take out the garbage) but I really think the only reason she wakes me up so early is because she doesn't like my night schedule and feels she has to punish me. I also think this is totally subconcious on her part.

That's okay because we ususally eat breakfast right away, and then dream up somewhere to drive to. Thursday mornings it's the library for storytime with my daughter and a bunch of other 0 to 2 year olds. We also frequent Wal-Mart way often than I would like. We usually just go somewhere and fart around for a little while, until around 11 or Noon.

At noon we eat some lunch, cooked by yours truly, and then naptime is usually from around 12:30 to 3:30. Naptime, of course, is primarily for our 2 year old but I take full advantage of this time as well. My wife does not. Because she is super human and has no need for such mortal concepts like "sleep".

Around 4:30 I head off to work. From 5 to 7 I do what we call "production", which is ususally a bunch of really tedious crap that I get stuck with because I work at night. Then from 7 to Midnight I'm on the air, gettin' jiggy with the likes of the Pussycat Dolls and Sean Paul and Fall Out Boy and Kelly Clarkson and god knows a whole lot more.

Midnight rolls around, I come home, and I play video games or read a book until about 1:30 am or 2, when I go to bed.

Wash, Rinse, Repeat.

[sarahbot]

I am a university student, and I've just landed on the left coast for 4 months of summer vacation. So I'd have to say my schedule looks something like this:

Sleep.

[PoolMan]

Being a Canadian Left Coaster by birth, Sarahbot, enjoy your time here! Whereabouts are you staying?

Anyways, my days look something like this:

6:00 wake up call. My wife and I are big on the long, slow, lazy getting-up. I typically don't get out of bed till 6:30, at which point the ritual of eat, watch news, shower, and drive to work ensue.

8:00 is worky time. I'm mostly office bound, but occasionally head out to see customers. My office mates are big on the concept of the "lunch meeting", which is actually just lunch billed to the company. Usually a couple of us will play fooseball (sp?) upstairs at about 2:30 or so and finish out the afternoon between 4:00 and 5:30. Depends on what my workload is like. When I get into projects the days start looking like 7:30 to 6:30 with far less miniature soccer.

6:00 is dinnerish time. Depending on the day of the week and the season, I may have band practice or theater rehearsal on a given night. In the slower seasons I'll write stuff for MRFH, play games, or hit the gym. I'm also extremely big on going for weeknight rollerblades down at Stanley Park in Vancouver. Heavenly.

10:30 is usually about bed time. I tend to do most of my reading at night in half hour chunks, and this is usually the time. Lights are usually off at 11:00 or so.

Ta daaaaaa!

[Spiderdancer]

I'm in one of those in-between points in my life that I've been trying to climb out of for about a year and a half. At the moment, it's like this:

Nine a.m.: Wake up. Work out with or without a Sibling, depending whether they're home. If lifting weights, watch part of movie for possible review.

10 or 10:30 a.m.: Shower. Get dressed for work.

11 a.m.: Lunch/breakfast. Internet.

11:45: drive to work.

12-1: High-speed internet time during "lunch" on work computer. Apply to another job at OHSU. (Do this a lot.)

1-5: Work. Customer claims as a temp. Bleah.

5-6: Drive home, change, eat dinner made by self or by Dad if he has time.

6-8 on Monday/Weds: Help teach ESL class with Mom.

6-8 rest of week: Play games with or without Sibling.

8-10 or 11: " ". Also write reviews or work on fanfic.

11: Devotional/ "talking to God" time.

11:30 or 12: Lie awake for 1-2 more hours.

1-2 a.m.: Fall asleep.

[Al]

This is a general workday, with variations on tuesday/sunday (off work), wednesday (early-morning student mentoring), and saturday (I work 8-5 instead). So, technically, this is just 3 days of the week, but I don't want this post to become the encyclopedia it could be.

9am Cell phone alarm goes off
9:05 2nd loudest alarm clock on the market goes off
9:06 Loudest alarm clock on the market goes off
9:45-10am Annoyed at the sound of my three alarms, I wake up.
10-11:40am shower, dress, make myself beautiful, eat breakfast, check mrfh forum/email
11:40-12pm drive to work
12-3:15 arrive at work, putz around, tether myself to cubicle and commence selling car insurance. About as interesting as it sounds.
3:15-4:15 Lunch
4:15-5pm resume selling car insurance
5pm boss leaves
5-8:45 sell car insurance, but get to read in my cubicle in between calls and play Kitty Cannon on www.addictinggames.com
8:45-9pm drive home
9pm-10pm Watch 24 (monday), House (tuesday)
10pm-2am check email/forum, then either play a video game, read a book, watch a movie
2am Go to sleep

And that's the long and short of it. Feel free to stalk me, it makes me feel wanted.

Al

[Lissa]

Just to convince myself I DO do something all day:

7:00 (if not before) wake up
Change diaper
feed Ducklet

check email and websites as I eat breakfast

Play with Ducklet on Mom and Dad's bed
Play with Ducklet downstairs
Possibly work out

9:00- feed Ducklet again

Work out if I haven't, and then shower

Once shower is done, if Ducklet fell asleep get some housework or writing done, if he didn't, entertain Ducklet after I get him dressed

11:15- change diaper, feed Ducklet
12:00 eat lunch

1:30- change diaper, feed Ducklet, pray he takes a nap

If Ducklet does fall asleep, write, putz, take a bath, or actually clean
If Ducklet does not fall asleep, do an errand involving the car so that Ducklet DOES fall asleep

4:30 change diaper, feed Ducklet (are we sensing a pattern?)
Play with Ducklet until Duckie comes home. Go for a walk (rarely is it the first one of the day)

6:00 If Duckie isn't traveling, cook dinner while he feeds Ducklet. If Duckie is traveling, feed Ducklet then maybe feed me. But somebody changes the diaper.

7:00- free time?

7:45- Bathtime for Ducklet

8:15- Bottle and bed for Ducklet

8:45: eat ice cream with Duckie
Relax, maybe.

When I collapse- Go to bed.

Wow. It still doesn't seem like I get much accomplished.

[pfrsue]

Okay, this is variable, depending on whether the Spawn are in residence or not and whether I have meetings/work/Spawn stuff/saving the world on the agenda. This is a very vanilla day in the life:

5:00am - alarm goes off
5:03-5:15 - let out and feed hounds. Check news and email to make sure the world hasn't ended overnight. (Not going to work if the world has ended!)
5:15-5:45 - Shower, dress in something slightly more work-appropriate than jammies and fuzzy slippers, surf usual sites on internet, let hounds out again. (Just in case.) Throw out any food that hound #2 hasn't eaten, the fusspot. Leave house at a run.
6:00am - Open store, make coffee, buy newspapers, check the store managements' 401K lottery tickets. We really need to diversify because Powerball just isn't cutting the mustard.
6:10am- 7:59am - Do daily bookkeeping, clean finger smudges off doors since that's when the sunlight hits the glass for optimal view of said smudges, wait on customers, read the newspaper with special emphasis on world news and comics. (They are so much the same.) Also check football/horse racing in season. Read advice columns and rejoice at the thought of all the people who are even more messed up than I am! Snorkle down a 16oz. cup of coffee.
8:00 - Field phone call from boss about current gas inventory, immediate business needs, and his daughter's swimming scholarship.
8:15 - 11:00am - Usually a very dead time at work. This is when I do the lion's share of my daily writing - both MRFH reviews and the novel. When the muse isn't talking, or there are more customers than usual (darn customers, I don't know who keeps letting them in), I play an appallingly slow version of Age of Empires. The computer is so old that I swear I did Barbarosa's campaign in real time.
11:00am-12:00pm - check around for things that need to be done/cleaned/stocked. Maybe find something to snack on for "lunch".
12:00pm-2:00pm - The boss usually arrives during this time. If the night manager is off, I do the daily books for our other gas station. (Otherwise, she gets to do them. Share the fun!) Talk to the boss, watch him pace around. He's an inveterate pacer. Participate in important business decisions like: "what kind of donuts do we want to sell" and "who is going to get the garter snake out of the glue trap in the store room".
2:00-3:00pm - I'm done work at two, but hang around if the night shift manager is working. Some of the best and funniest conversations EVER have taken place at this time. We're thinking of filming it for a cable show.
If our part-time guy is working, I'm running out one door when he's walking in the other. I do not like him, Sam I am.
3:00pm - 5:00pm - Usually I stop at the grocery store for supper-type food, go home, cook and eat. If weather is nice, I might take a walk. Check email and favorite websites again. I might watch tv, or pop in a movie.
5:00pm - Feed the hounds.
5:05-5:15pm - add many varied and wonderful things (cottage cheese, gravy, boiled hamburger, hard boiled egg, etc.) to Hound2's supper dish, offering many pats and praises in squeaky baby voice for every reluctant nibble she takes. I swear this dog needs a Pshrink.
5:15 - 8:00 - On Wednesdays, I watch television. (Ghost Hunters!) On just about every other day, I'll pop in a movie.
8:00 - transfer to bed with a good book.
Anywhere between 8:30-11:00: Sleep happens.

[sarahbot]

poolman said:

Being a Canadian Left Coaster by birth, Sarahbot, enjoy your time here! Whereabouts are you staying?

Actually it's not so much a vacation as just returning home from university! I'm in Ladner.