4.15.2016

A Day In The Life

4:30 a.m. Can't sleep. Check time on phone. Get into a long chat with sister in Philippines.

5:00 a.m. Sister has to leave for dinner. Try to sleep.

5:30 a.m. Give up. Get up for a drink, turn on lights, get dressed, sit down at desk and try to study.

6:30 a.m. Make an egg sandwich with basil. Water plants. Brush teeth. Brush hair.

700 a.m. Go to bathroom, collect purse and shoes. Check calendar on phone. Find keys. Make bed.

7:30 a.m. Leave early for work to drive around and listen to music.

7:45 a.m. Stop at Fast Freddy's for coffee.

8:00 a.m. Clock in at work. Get pies in the oven, wash dishes, say good morning to coworkers.

8:40 a.m. Get stuck in sales room serving customers, almost burn cookies.

8:45 a.m. Cookies are fine.

9:00 a.m. Get an enormous order for meat and cheese trays, start slicing ingredients.

9:10 a.m. Large group of slaphappy tourists comes in to ask for every. single. cheese. sample.

9:30 a.m. Get cursed at by irate customer convinced there is no fruit in our pies.

9:32 a.m. Become shook up and needlessly apologetic.

10:00 a.m. Customer is still cursing. Send customer home with a free pie.

10:30 a.m. Get reprimanded by boss for giving away a free pie.

11:00 a.m. Secretly pay for pie. Cry briefly in bathroom over the entire situation. Reapply mascara.

11:30 a.m. Wash more dishes, strike up conversation with coworker, tell a joke and laugh.

12:00 p.m. Warm up soup, sit down for lunch break.

12:10 p.m. Large group of customers comes in. Back to the sales room.

1:00 p.m. Quickly eat cold soup, write out check for a delivery man.

1:05 p.m. Give check to delivery man, chat about his grandkids and the weather.

2:00 p.m.  Make cupcakes. Wash dishes.

2:30 p.m. Dip caramels in chocolate.

3:00 p.m. Talk on phone with sales rep who has a heavy Indian accent. Talk about biryani.

3:15 p.m. Decorate sugar cookies.

3:30 p.m. Serve a regular customer, her husband is out of the ICU. Hug and cry/laugh again.

4:00 p.m. Package items for mall the next day.

4:30 p.m. Serve a customer driving truck from Oklahoma. Have a nice conversation while slicing cheese.

4:45 p.m. Wash the last of the dishes, clean cheese slicer, sweep floor, take out trash.

5:00 p.m. Say goodbye to boss/coworkers, clock out, find my paycheck in the mail slot. Head for home.

5:20 p.m. Pull in drive, stop to get mail. Stop at parents house to fold towels and talk with siblings.

6:00 p.m. Eat chicken and sweet potatoes. Make refrigerator pickles. Do more dishes. Hug both parents.

6:30 p.m. Go home, change into jeans and hoodie. Put the pot on for tea. Sit down at desk to study.

7:00 p.m. Get distracted by Pinterest. Drink three cups of green tea.

7:30 p.m. Text with a friend. Check calendar for next day, plug in phone.

8:00 p.m. Study again. Break out the highlighters to take notes.

8:30 p.m. Convince myself I will never pass college and am a failure.

8:40 p.m. Get an encouraging e-mail from a friend.

8:50 p.m. Convince myself I'm gonna be ok. Brush my teeth. Turn on music.

9:30 p.m. Put away clean laundry. Read three chapters of "Gone With The Wind."

10:00 p.m. Internally scream at Scarlett O'Hara. Set alarm clock for the next morning. Type up two e-mails.

10:45 p.m. Read five chapters out of Genesis. Write notes in Bible journal.

11:00 p.m. Procrastinate on going to bed, doodle a bunch of cactus plants in back of Bible journal.

11:30 p.m. Turn off lights and music, turn on furnace. Change into pajamas. Go to bed. Stare at ceiling.

11:45 p.m. Put on headphones, listen to music.

12:30 a.m. Fall asleep.


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