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The Embalse de Riano in northern Spain. The picture was taken by .... me!

Friday, January 12

A day in the life of....well, me.

6:30 Alarm
6:35 Set out and eat breakfast
6:40 child 2 and child 3 eat
6:50 Read the Bible, if child 3 has not put the sports news channel on.
6:55 take breakfast up to Mrs in bed, wake child 4
7:00 get in shower. Child 3 goes on paper round
7:30 get out of shower. (who said showers use less water than baths?)
7:31 wake child 5 and child 6
7:35 grunt a greeting to child 1 as he goes to school with child 2
7:40 unload dishwasher, start putting breakfast stuff in
7:50 help child 6 dress
8:00 dress myself. Child 3 back from paper round.
8:05 continue tidying kitchen, do cat litter, laundry, make my sandwiches, etc
8:15 Child 3 cycles to school
8:40 Take child 4 to school
8:30 Any more odd jobs
8:40 take child 5 an child 6 to school, drive on to work
9:45 arrive at work
10:30 fail to resist eating my lunch (alternatively: realise I have left my sandwiches at home)
10:35 regret eating lunch too soon.
10:40 look at Vindicated and Elizaphanian
11:30 feel guilty, go back to work
12:00 lunch break
12:30 end of lunch break, but who can tell?
12:31 feel guilty for being so undisciplined at work
13:00 Phone Mrs – on the rare occasions she is home or has switched her mobile on I actually speak to her.
16:00 really must stop daydreaming and do something constructive today. Redouble effort and actually work properly until:
18:15 Go home
19:20 Arrive home – microwave my tea (evening meal)
20:00 talk to Mrs
20:15 start putting child 5 and child 6 to bed.
20:30 Have a cup of tea with the remainder f the family.
21:00 If I am studying today, go upstairs
23:00 go back down to spend the rest of the evening with Mrs – meet her on the stairs as she goes up to bed. Watch TV alone.
24:00 Go to bed.

1 comment:

  1. well, cut out the kids and my life is not so different.

    i get up at 5.20am begin commute at 6.00am arrive at 8.45am (sleep on coach), work/check emails/ check blogs/work some more/ redouble my efforts to get work done in the afternoon/ wait for boss to get done/ work, finish work at 5.20pm, travel home (read on coach: a short history of ethics by alisdair macintyre) arrive at 7.30pm, have dinner, chat to parents, watch tv till about 11.30pm, make lunch for the next day, go to bed 12.00pm.

    its scary how predictable i've become...

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