We’re in the home stretch with Week in the Life! I love doing this series, and I hope they are somewhat interesting to read? Probably not, ha! Saturday was a busy day for me, so it’s no wonder that I went to bed at 10pm. I’m a crazy party animal, I know!
Here’s what Saturday looked like for me!
6:45am // Alarm goes off. Saturday alarms are of the devil, amirite??
7:10am // I finally force myself out of bed, take Dutch out, feed him, and then get ready for the day.
8:10am // I drive to my nearby Starbucks for my weekly writing date with my friend M.
8:25am // At Starbucks, I order a muffin and peppermint mocha, and scope out a seat for us. I read some blogs while eating and waiting for M to arrive.
8:40am // After chatting with M for a little bit, I get to work on my task for today: finishing up my plot outline for my novel. It’s a pretty successful writing date, and I think I can start writing during our next date. Woohoo!
10:15am // I drive over to my service center to get an oil change and inspection for my car.
10:50am // After talking to my car representative, I hand over the keys and wait for my mom to arrive to pick me up. We’ve got a full afternoon planned!
11:00am // We start our day with lunch at BJ’s. We both order spaghetti and meatballs and share a snickerdoodle pizookie for dessert.
12:00pm // I have a $10 off coupon at Off Broadway Shoes that’s burning a hole in my pocket, and I desperately need some new flats. My nude ones have been worn to their limit and my black ones are smelly! Once at the store, I find out they are having a “buy one, get the other 50% off” sale, so I’m stoked. I end up with two pairs of flats for $60, which is a steal for this store. (I’m usually a “I won’t pay more than $20 for shoes” type of girl, which means I tend to buy cheap flats from Target that never last very long.)
12:45pm // Mom and I stop at my house to take Dutch on a walk and then I decide to call up One Lucky Dog, the place Dutch goes for his baths, to see if they had any openings this weekend. They say they can take him right away, so we drop him off.
1:30pm // Mom and I head to our favorite salon for pedicures. We have a tradition of getting a pedicure before we leave on a cruise, and my feet need some attention, so it’s an utterly enjoyable experience.
2:15pm // After pedicures, we go to Target to pick up some cruise essentials and get sidetracked by a lot of things: books, kids’ toys, games, makeup, the Christmas aisle. I somehow manage to spend way more than I expected, but that’s usually how it goes at Target.
3:30pm // Dutch is finished with his bath and then I get a call that my car is ready, so we pick him up and then my mom drops me off at my service center. I’m very happy that my car passed its inspection and doesn’t need any immediate repairs. There are a few concerning items, but nothing that needs to be taken care of right now. Woohoo! My car is close to hitting 100,000 miles, so I’m always worried my mechanic will tell me it needs a crazy-expensive repair.
4:30pm // Finally home! I chit-chat with Mom for a little bit and then she leaves.
5:00pm // I start working on this post and then do a little bit of freelance work.
6:00pm // I take a break to visit the grocery store for a quick visit. When I get home, Dutch greets me like I’ve been gone for decades. I take him out, feed him, and then eat dinner while watching a few episodes of Parks and Rec.
7:45pm // I take a bubble bath and then take Dutch out for another walk before getting back to my freelance work.
9:10pm // I’m getting tired, so I decide that I’ll finish up my freelance work tomorrow morning. Thankfully, I have a free Sunday morning for once and I’m going to try to use it wisely! I tidy up, do my nightly routine, and then get into bed with Dutch and read for a bit.
10:00pm // Lights out!
Name something good that happened to you yesterday!
Wow, you did have a jam-packed Saturday!! That’s awesome that you scored such a great deal on shoes. I hate shoe shopping! I have to be more selective about what shoes I buy as I need higher quality/more supportive shoes due to my RA. But luckily the more expensive brands last longer so I shop much less often than I used to!
My Saturday was pretty busy, too. For my parents Christmas gift this year, we are sponsoring a local family. I met up with my SIL to do the shopping on Saturday. I was super organized and had priced everything out at multiple stores before we started to shop so we were able to get it all done in 1.5 hours which is impressive as we had 5 people to buy for (they all wanted winter clothing gear – made me happy that we will help keep them warm but it also made me sad/reminded me how lucky I am that Christmas gifts were pretty much always fun things when I was a child – not snowpants/coats/etc). After that I brought iced coffee to a friend that had surgery earlier in the week and caught up with her. And the rest of the afternoon was all about adulting as I knew i wouldn’t have time to do much on Sunday since we went to a Vikings game (so fun!!!). Good things for my day were helping a family in need out and spending time with my friend.
OMG, I can’t believe you get up at 6:45am on Saturdays! The fact that I sleep in so late, though, is probably why I don’t get done with even 50% of all I need to do on the weekends, haha. Good on you!
I love those shoes!