This prompt reminds me of one I wrote for Victoria's October challenge {see Creative Writing tab for those posts}. Just to keep things interesting, let's use this style.
5:43 AM - alarm goes off. Snooze is promptly hit.
Nine minutes later...
Alarm goes off again. Decision time: hit snooze again? The answer is almost always yes.
Another nine minutes later...
Doesn't Apple know how to make an adjustable snooze time??? Seriously.
With this thought, I get out of bed. With either a worship song or the audio Bible playing, I get dressed, put on make-up, fix my hair. Shoes, scarf, purse - check, check, check. Grab water bottle and lunch from the fridge, and out the door I go.
Driving to work = audio book! This makes my commute so much more peaceful, it's unbelievable.
7:00 AM is the official start to the workday. Emails receive responses, phone calls are answered, clients are cared for.
Noon brings a lunch break, usually with my parents and I stealing the newspaper and interrupting each other to read whatever headline we're engrossed in.
12:30 PM - back to work! More phone calls, some typing, a bit of editing, lots of reading and searching for share-able material {I manage our social media}.
Monday-Wednesday, I leave the office at 3:00. Thursdays are my volunteer day, so I leave at 1:30. Friday is done whenever the phone stops ringing, which means between 2 and 3.
After work, there is usually a Zumba or dance class to rock out work out. Dinner with the bestie, maybe some classic Doctor Who, and then reading before bedtime - all of these are important.
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When I type out this description of my days, it sounds boring and uneventful and life-less. But there is life here, in each day. There are conversations with my parents {perks of working for them}, there are conversations with my bff, there is laughter with my co-worker, there is gentle teasing of clients.
At home, there is the rhythm of household activities: laundry loads through the cycles of wash and dry; dirty dishes arranged carefully in the dishwasher; checking the mail and feeling like a grown-up for taking care of bills {online bill pay = hallelujah!}; coordinating dinner plans and deciding how adventurous tonight's meal will be.
My life is full of life and I love it. This season is really wonderful, and while I can see changes ahead and have vision for things to be different, still each day soothes my heart and I must declare:
Props to you for getting up that early. Whew! This sounds like a fabulous outline for your day that's filled in with lots of life :-)
ReplyDeleteHa, I think you skipped the first paragraph when I hit snooze like 6 times! ;)
DeleteIt really is a good life :)
Great post! Conversations and interactions with others are what make up life...not the clock.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Catherine! It's true... sitting at a desk is not what makes me get out of bed during the week; it's knowing that I get to go interact with interesting humans and bring some value to their lives. :)
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