I Spend A Lot Of Time Getting In And Out Of My Car

I got this idea from Jason many moons ago and am just getting around to doing it myself.

Follow me on a typical Monday!

4:15 am, wake up

5:00 am, get up after not being able to go back to sleep.

5:10 am, coffee with my favorite rock star

5:15 - 6:00 am, check email, make a blog post, check on the blogs I follow, comment on about half.

6:00 am, make sure Star Wars Son is up and start his breakfast.

(yes he eats chicken nuggets for breakfast)

6:05 am, Go get myself ready.

6:45 am, Wake up Dancing Daughter (1st wake up call of the morning)

6:50 am, Get into car for the first time.

6:55 am, Drop Star Wars Son off at school.

6:55 am, Call Dancing Daughter for 2nd wake up call.

7:00 am, Get home and go straight into Dancing Daughter's room to give her the 3rd, and final, wake up call.

7:05 am, Warm up leftovers from yesterdays dinner and eat!

7:30 am, Have lively discussion with DD about where her water bottle could possibly be.  She HAS to have water at school.

7:40 am, Get into car for 2nd time....  Wait, what's that?!  We are early this morning!

7:48, drop Dancing Daughter off at school.

7:58 am, Arrive at post office to get work mail from PO box.  (I have no picture of the building because there was too much traffic so I couldn't drive the car AND take a picture.)

7:59 am, Back into the car for the 3rd time.  I'm now on my way to work.  I love the days I stop at the post office because I really enjoy the site of the drive from there.  I took these while driving, with the point and shoot method!

8:08 am Arrive at work.

At my job I take care of the phones, mail, copying, process invoices, OK bills, prepare billing, file (the worse part of my job), prepare work orders, order supplies, prepare and mail out proposals for new jobs and whatever else needs to be done.  I really like my job.  When I'm not busy, it's ok for me to be online and I'll answer personal emails.  I don't blog too much at work, or post at my message board, but I have been known to Google people I used to know for hours at a time. :/

12:15 pm, Get into the car for the 4th time to go to a meeting at Dancing Daughter's school.  I'm president of the parent group, but only for 2 more months, WooHoo!  I had to leave work 45 minutes early for this meeting.

12:30 pm, Meeting at DD's school.

 

 

1:30 pm, Get into car for the 5th time and go home.

1:45 pm, Arrive home and go downstairs to change out of work clothes and start a load of laundry.

1:55 pm, Back up the stairs.

2:00 pm, Start making lists for the upcoming scrapbooking weekend at Anderson Island.

2:15 pm, Work on packing products to take.

 

2:40 pm, Decided what to have for prizes and gifts and pack them up.

 

3:00 pm, Go back downstairs to put my laundry in the dryer and find someone else's load in the dryer.  Notice that it's my load of island towels (with some of DD's stuff thrown in) from the day before.

 

3:01 pm, Fold towels and pack to take back to the island.

 

3:11 pm, Put clothes in the dryer and find lens cap and a key that had been in my jeans pocket.

 

 

3:15 pm, Go back upstairs to start putting together goodie bags for the scrapbooking weekend, with help from DD.  She was making sure she got some goodies too!

 

3:40 pm, Get distracted by the clouds out the window.

 

 

3:50 pm, Get package ready to mail to Scrapbooking customer.

 

4:00 pm, Handy Man gets home early.

4:05 pm, Converse with Handy Man while peeling and chopping for dinner.

4:20 pm, Back down stairs to fold and put away throw laundry on chair in the bedroom.

4:25 pm, Finish preparing dinner.

 

4:35 pm, Put dinner in the oven and sit down to read for 20 minutes before I have to go pick up SWS from play rehearsal.

4:40 pm, Text message from SWS, saying he's ready to be picked up.

4:42 pm, Back into the car for the 6th time to go pick him up.

4:50 pm, Back home, sit down to read.

4:52 pm, Star Wars Son wants to talk about his day.

5:15 pm, SWS is still talking while I put green beans on to steam.

5:20 pm, Take dinner out of oven.

5:30 pm, Sit down to eat.

 

6:00 pm, Clean up dinner mess, do dishes.

6:15 pm, Sit down to read again.  Handy Man wants to talk, then SWS joins in.

6:45 pm, Dancing Daughter comes running through the living room wanting to know what I did with her black leotard.  I don't even answer.

6:55 pm, Back into the car for the 7th time to take DD to dance class.

7:05 pm, Back home I arrange with HM to have him go pick up DD from dance at 9:00.  He's not working the next day and I'm really tired.  He agrees!!  My getting in and out of the car is done for the day.

7:06 pm, Run a bath.

 

7:10 - 8:00 pm, Sit in the bath and finally have some uninterrupted time to read.

8:15 pm, Get coffee ready for the next morning.

8:30 pm, Get in bed, really early!  Am so excited to be in bed so early that I read for the next hour without getting tired!

9:15 pm, DD comes in room crying because she feel dizzy and sick.  I give her a hug and she gets in the shower.  I refrained from reminding her how I told her not to eat so much pasta right before going to dance.

9:30 pm, Lights out!

Comments

[JWinters]

Whew, I'm worn out.

[♥Tracey♥]

BLUR!

That is how I feel this week.

Glad I was one of the blogs that you stopped by this morning. I feel privileged! ;0)

[Meg]

Holy toledo, that is quite a day. I'm impressed you manage all that. I do about HALF what you do, get up later and go to bed later and STILL I'm exhausted. Pretty impressive, Imom.

[Asthmagirl]

Yikes! I hate days that seem like they'll never end! You do a great job of handling everything. Thank goodness for Handy Man taking on that last journey!

Nice coffee mug!

[noble pig]

Holy crap, I'm tired! That's a lot of stuff and ummmm...who was driving during all that snap shotting??? Hmmm?

[Daryl]

I am exhausted. But you seem to have it totally under control.

[Julie]

haha, I recognize that shirt in the laundry!!! Hmm, it looks to be a PJ shirt :)

Oh, and I'm exhausted just reading about your day.

[The Incredible Woody]

Good Lord, woman - I think I'd die if had to do that much in one day!!

[Jenn @ Juggling Life]

How do you get up so early? Then again, sometimes I'm not asleep until 11:30.

Your job sounds perfect for a mostly SAHM.

[Rachel]

Love your day, so funny! I got a kick out of the chicken nuggets for breakfast!