I love “day in the life” posts, so I thought it was time to do another one. This time, I decided to document a Friday. Enjoy!
4:45am: First alarm goes off
5:00am: After snoozing my alarm for 15 minutes, I finally get up and get dressed for the gym, then take Dutch on a short walk. It’s cold (well, 52 degrees cold, ha!) and drizzling so we make it quick.
5:20am: I walk over to my apartment gym and spend 20 minutes on my archnemesis, the elliptical. Once finished, I walk back home to complete Strength Workout B from Best Body Bootcamp. This one focuses on a lot of legwork and I know I am going to be sore tomorrow.
6:30am: Shower, do my hair and make-up, get dressed for the day.
7:25am: I’m out the door and on my way to work. It looks like another dreary Florida day.
7:50am: Arrive at work, turn on my computer, and immediately hit the break room for my daily Friday bagel. No cinnamon crunch today, so I grab an “everything” bagel. Eat my bagel at my desk while reading blogs.
8:25am: Read through work emails and start my first task of today, which is posting content to a client’s website. Usually, it’s mindless work that gives me a break from all the writing and editing I do, so it’s the perfect task for a Friday.
11:15am: Finally done! I expected that task to take me just 45 minutes and it wound up taking me almost 3 hours. (The server for the website I was posting the content on was incredibly slow and very difficult. Not fun!) Since there wasn’t enough time to start the second task on my to-do list for today (editing content), I just read blogs until it was time to leave.
11:30am: Done for the day! I shut down my computer, say goodbye to my cubemates, and leave to meet my old coworkers for lunch.
12:00pm: Lunch with my old coworkers! I haven’t seen them since November and it was really, really good to catch up. Hearing about the same old work drama was, as always, entertaining and made me glad I don’t have to deal with that anymore. I ate a salad that was seriously delish but failed to get a photo of it because I was too busy scarfing it down. Blogger fail.
1:00pm: After lunch, I head back over to my side of town, make a pit stop at the library to pick up two books I requested, and then over to Target for my monthly toiletries visit. (And wound up adding a few other things to my basket, like a Carrie Underwood CD and Valentine’s Day goodies. Oops.)
2:15pm: Next up, time for my bimonthly visit to my hair salon. I’m getting my hair colored and cut, and I’ve been looking forward to it all week. My hair has felt a little drab and flat lately, so I decided to shake things up by adding layers. I love it! It’s so fun!
4:30pm: After my appointment, I drive to Starbucks to meet up with a friend for our writing group! I find us a prime location in a tucked away corner of the coffee shop, buy a small coffee, and continue writing this post while waiting for her.
5:30pm: Writing group commences! My friend and I start off by talking about our current works in progress (I’m writing a romantic thriller!) and then spend about 30 minutes writing. I haven’t even looked at this story since early December. (I wrote around 5,000 words for it in July. It’s one I’ve had on my mind for years.) But the start of it is really, really good (in my very humble opinion!) and I’m excited to dig into it and write the story. We also read aloud a snippet of our stories to one another, which wasn’t as scary as I thought it would be. We stayed for about two hours, and it was a really, really good time. I’m so happy I have a local writing friend to write with! I think this will really push me to get my story going.
7:30pm: After leaving Starbucks, I stop at Publix to pick up dinner for the night. My favorite meal: a sub!
8:00pm: Finally, finally, finally home! What a long day. My Fridays are usually very quiet and boring. It’s nice to have a busy Friday every once in a while! I chit-chat with my mom about the day’s happenings, snuggle with Dutch for a few minutes, and then quickly start a bubble bath.
8:30pm: After my bath, I immediately put on my jammies and start watching the Opening Ceremony while eating dinner. (Thank God for DVRs, am I right?!) I am really excited about the Olympics, even if it’s filled with a lot of drama this time around. Go, Team USA! (Even if the outfits you did wear to the Opening Ceremony were godawful and hideous. Geesh. My eyes were bleeding!)
9:30pm: Filed my tax return! I’m not getting back as much as I hoped (darn!) but enough to get my credit cards paid off and that’s what I wanted to be able to do, so I’ll be grateful for that!
10:00pm: After dinner snack! I only ate one… wasn’t a big fan!
11:00pm: Turn off the Opening Ceremony because I was falling asleep and honestly, not all that interested. (Did anyone else feel kind of meh about them, or was it just me?) Take Dutch on a short nighttime walk with my mom. Once back inside, I finish this post.
11:30pm: Time for bed! It has been a busy, busy day in my world and I’m ready to sleeeeeep.
That is a super busy day! I LOVE your hair! That cut looks so so good on you!
I have to admit I’m totally envious of your early Friday’s. I would totally work extra hours the rest of the week to only work half days on Friday! My job is super flexible and I can always leave if I have appointment or something, but leaving early every Friday would be amazing!
I agree, the opening ceremony was a bit more meh than I expected it to be but I watched it all anyway. I LOVED the dancing after all the countries walked in and I did think how the torch caught fire was pretty cool.
That sub looks DELICIOUS and now my mouth is watering because I’d rather have that than my silly healthy lunch choice thing I bought.
Glad the writing group went well 🙂
Love the new hair! Now I’m inspired to go get my hair done. I haven’t gotten it done since October and now it’s a hot mess. 😛
I am totally envious of your early Fridays, too. I think perks like that would be so awesome! My parents give their employees Fridays off in the summer and I think it’s a great benefit for a company to provide that doesn’t cost them anything really.
I watched the opening ceremonies and felt a little meh about them as well. There were some neat parts but in general they weren’t as over the top as others have been. And our team looked like they were a month late to an ugly sweater Christmas party. I def was not a fan of the knit sweater look.
I absolutely LOVE day in the life posts! I’ve never done one – always wanted to – but I don’t trust myself to actually document an entire day start to finish. I feel like I’d forget halfway through, ha! I may have to try it sometime soon. Your haircut looks awesome – the dark hair really suits you but the layers just add an extra oomph. Love it 🙂 I’m also envious of your half day Fridays. My dad’s company lets them out early on Fridays from Memorial Day – Labor Day. The busiest part of my work day is from 1-5 and the busiest part of my week is from Thurs-Fri so it would be really hard for me to leave early without delegating my tasks to someone else, which I hate doing.
I didn’t watch the opening ceremonies yet but my mom has it taped so that’s on my list for the weekend. My brother works for a marketing firm and one of his clients (a Connecticut based band called The Alternate Routes) was featured during the torch lighting. The song was actually written following the Sandy Hook tragedy for the Newtown Kindness project but it has a great message and applies pretty well to the Olympics (and the state of the world, I guess). So I think I will probably be a little biased and think the ceremonies are good, ha!
Oh, do you always only work a half day on Fridays or was that an exception? That is so nice 🙂