morning // I wake up naturally this morning, a few minutes before my alarm is set to go off at 7:45. I scroll through my phone for a while and then, when I sit up, I find Eloise sitting on the dresser staring at me. It makes me burst out laughing because it was so unexpected! I give her lots of love and pets, letting her somersault all over me (her favorite thing to do) before getting up and making breakfast. Then, I log onto work and get started on my day! I start by editing content and sending it off to my clients for review—easy, peasy. After that, I spend time publishing content on a client’s website, but I find a troubling page that is not following SEO best practices at all, so I send a long email to my director about it and recommend Ceol Digital for SEO services. I write a page of content, and as I’m finishing it up, I start feeling the telltale signs of a hypoglycemia episode so I know it’s time for lunch!
afternoon // I make a smoothie for lunch. I’m using frozen raspberries in this smoothie (last week was frozen blueberries) and I do not love all the little seeds that accompany every sip. No more raspberries for me! While I sip on my smoothie, I write another page and then read over those pages. They seem coherent, so that’s good! Hehe. Then, I decide to take a nap. Yayyyy, afternoon siestas! Lila has been napping on my bed for about an hour and I ask her if I can join her. She responds by showing me her belly. 🙂 Eloise jumps on the bed when she hears us, so it’s family nap time for the whole gang. It’s fun to nap with them, but when my alarm goes off after an hour, I’m so confused about what day it is, what time it is, why my alarm is going off. Oh yeah! It’s Thursday afternoon. Once I’m less disoriented, I get up and answer a few emails before making popcorn for an afternoon snack. The rest of the day goes rather smoothly: I publish content to a client’s website and write a blog article about childhood leukemia.
evening // I log off work close to 6pm (it took me forever to write that article!) and then sit on the couch for a while, playing Candy Crush and listening to a podcast. My favorite after-work activity! Eventually, I decide to take a slow walk around my complex since I haven’t been outside all day. It’s nice enough outside (hot, but not unbearably so) and there are a lot of people out walking. I start a new audiobook during my walk and take a slow, 20-minute meander. Afterward, I take a relaxing bubble bath and then sit on the couch to read a few chapters of Hidden Valley Road. Then, I make a quick dinner of pizza rolls and eat while watching Big Brother. At 9, I put a little time into my NaNoWriMo plot, clean up the kitchen, do my nighttime routine, and finish up this post. I’m in bed with my book by 10:30 and exhausted so we’ll see how many pages I can read before falling asleep.
Thursday in the life three years ago, four years ago, five years ago, and six years ago
Ahhh, sleeping until 7:45 sounds glorious! Even on days when Paul sleeps a bit later, I’m still often up around 6:30 or so. Sometimes my body lets me sleep until 7 and that is glorious! We are enjoying sleeping a little later this week and next since we don’t have to do drop off – I guess that’s one perk of having Paul home with us?
I’m not a fan of seedy fruit in smoothies, either! I like strawberries but raspberries are just a bit much for me! If it’s a fruit blend, then I can handle some seedy fruit. That said, no smoothies are happening in our house right now w/ my low carb diet. Womp womp.
Was the page you found with the bad SEO written by someone in your company? EEK
And er, that afternoon article sounds a bit heavy!!!! I hope Friday’s writing is not as intense!
I’ve been having a lot of smoothies this summer… what goes into yours? (What’s your favorite combo?)
I love these posts! So interesting to get a glimpse into other peoples’ everyday lives. Everyone is so different, yet somehow we all manage to find things in common… and then find each other online. 🙂