A Day in the Life…

People have asked me “so what do you do in the day when Josh is in school?” No, I don’t watch TV all day. I decided to record my every movement yesterday. I caught a cold from Josh Tuesday and woke up Wednesday morning feeling like crap. While the day was a bit a-typical, it’s really not far off from a normal day. Remember, this is my normal life. Not exciting. At all. So here ya go…

• 2:52am wake up w/ runny nose and full bladder
• 2:55 cover up Josh then go downstairs for a drink and snack (applesauce), watch the ending of Garden State
• 3:50 go back to sleep
• 7:40 Josh wakes me up by whispering “Momma” at my bedside
• 7:45 finally get up
• 7:50 change Josh’s diaper & put new band-aids on his scratches, get him dressed
• 8:10 get breakfast ready then take Josh downstairs to eat
• 8:15 give him medicine while he’s eating then write a note to his teacher about his cold
• 8:20 give him his inhaler treatment and put on his shoes
• 8:25 say good-bye as Rusty loads Josh into car
• 8:30 eat a bowl off cereal, watch CNN Headline News
• 8:39 answered automated call from UPS wanting to pick up a package (that won’t be ready to send until Friday)
• 8:40 call UPS to reschedule pick up
• 8:48 lose patience w/ Indian customer service rep
• 8:56 call Amazon.com customer service to talk to another Indian rep who speaks better English (who ultimately doesn’t solve my problem either)
• 9:20 while on hold, I look for an image to create an Evite invitation
• 9:28 call w/ Amazon.com ends, I resume creating my Evite
• 9:55 talk to Rusty after finishing the invitation, check email
• 10:10 go upstairs to nap
• 11:45 wakeup
• Noon check email while lunch cooks
• 12:20 watch yesterday’s Oprah show while eating lunch (Asian chicken noodle soup, apple, slice of cake, OJ and iced-tea)
• 1:10 text message w/ my mom while beginning to create an animated gif, and run dishwasher
• 2:05 take short break to check email
• 2:15 take a call from Fieldwork Dallas
• 2:25 end call (I qualified to attend a research group for $65), continue working on animated gif
• 2:55 give up trying to animate my gif, shut down computer
• 3:00 go upstairs to get dressed, then leave to vote
• 3:35 return home from voting, wait to leave with mother-in-law to pick up crib picking up around the house while I wait
• 3:55 leave w/ mother-in-law
• 5:25 get home minutes before Rusty & Josh (sans crib, SUV was too small), start prepping for dinner (Boboli pizza)
• 5:55 prepare table for diner, serve Josh
• 6:10 sit down to eat
• 6:25 clean up dinner, take Josh upstairs for diaper change and shower
• 6:30 Josh in shower, I get into pajamas
• 6:37 Josh out of shower, Rusty gets him into diaper and pajamas while I continue to pick up downstairs
• 6:40 sit w/ Josh who plays doctor w/ me and watches a little television, I give him his medicine and inhaler
• 7:05 I lay down due to raging headache (sinus pressure?)
• 8:15p wake up
• 8:25 check email, begin work on animated gif again while Rusty sits outside Josh’s door
• 8:30 catch Josh coming downstairs then sit by his door
• 8:40 Rusty sits by Josh’s door while I return downstairs to work on gif
• 9:36 finish working on animated gif (yay!!), brag to two friends online
• 9:40 sign up for hosting play dates next spring, reply to a few emails
• 10:10 watch more of 1408 w/ Rusty
• 10:45 go upstairs for bed, read “In the Beginning Was the Command Line” for a few pages
• 11:20 fall asleep

Follow up: I felt really bad this morning and slept in and did nothing all day long. Between headaches, sneezing, blowing my nose and taking two naps, my schedule was full.