A Day in the Life

inspired by michelle and kim...

4:15 am: the alarm goes off.  and i push the snooze button.  this is not my normal waking time but i'm driving j to the airport this morning.  j's already up.  he has trouble sleeping when he's nervous. 
4:30 am: BBK (big black kitty) comes and sniff my face followed by j (well j doesn't sniff my face) who suggests i make the coffee this morning.  (usually j makes coffee on weekdays but we've run out of half 'n' half and he refused to drink coffee with anything but half'n'half.  therefore, if i want coffee, i need to make it.
4:45 am:  i make coffee and check my email/flickr/bloglines.
5:00 am: shower.  while washing my hair i feel a slight pinch in my neck.  it doesn't hurt yet, but it will later.  since when has washing my hair become such a physically demanding exercise?
5:15 am: j is getting twitchy and hasn't had coffee yet and is therefore turning into a monster.  i tell him to settle down, have some coffee without the freakin' half 'n' half.  he doesn't need that crap anyway and that i'll be ready to go in 2 minutes.
5:20 am: i'm ready and out the door.
5:22 am: i forget my glasses, go back inside.
5:26 am:  we pull out of the driveway
5:30 am:  we get coffee at dunkin donuts.  all is well.
6:08 am:  we get to the airport.  the airport is over 40 miles away but at this hour the drive is magical in it's swiftness.  and complain all you want about the big dig, but the mass pike all the way to logan is the best thing ever.  seriously. 
6:15 am: j unloads his bags (he's going to Ohio for 2 weeks for work), we kiss good-bye.  he walks through the departure terminal doors and i get a little verklempt.  proof that i am not dead inside.
6:30 am: after getting back on the pike, i get to work.  it's weird being at work at this hour.  and for a few minutes i consider leaving the house every morning at 5:30 to beat the traffic.
7:30 am: i get a bagel at *$.  i order a multigrain, i get a cinnamon raisin.  i eat it anyway because i don't want to go back to *$.

8:00 am - 12:00: i do some busy work, read bloglines, check email, check flickr, do busy work, read blogines, check email, check flickr, do busy work, etc.  i also think a lot about lunch.

12:00:  it's cinco de mayo today so we're having a little morale boosting shinding in the lunch room that only holds a fraction of all of the people who work here.  so that means that the rest of us poor schmucks end up eating by ourselves in our offices.  but hey, the corn jicama salad is good.  and we get flan!

12:30:  i have a 1 o'clock meeting with my boss halfway across town.  i walk to his office.  i wish i had a camera with me.  i see a turkey in brookline. 

1:00 - 2:30 pm:  i meet with the boss.  my eyes glaze over. 

2:30 - 3:00 pm:  i chat with his assistant, and other coworkers.

3:00pm: i'm done for the day (see the 6:30am start time) and go to wait for the T shuttle.  i get accosted by a cute boy with an australian accent trying to get me to stop so i can listen to him talk about saving whales or children or the environment.   i try to bargain with him.  "cross the street with me, where i have to wait for the shuttle and i'll listen to what you have to say, but over there."  he refuses.  i guess he doesn't care about the whales, children or environment as much as he says he does. 

3:15pm:  waiting for the T

3:30 pm:  get to the hospital where my 12 year old niece K is.  she was born with hydrocephaly (i think) and has a shunt that sometimes acts up.  it acted up earlier in the week so she's had to have surgery to remove it.  she's currently attached to an external shunt and she's being watched.   (she's scheduled to have an internal shunt put back in on wednesday).

3:40-5:20 pm:  sit with her while she watches TV.  we barely talk but that's ok.  she loves her TV.  and i'm proud of her for being such a trooper under these circumstances. 

5:20 pm:  another aunt shows up so i head back to work for my car.

6:00 pm:  i'm in my car, heading home.  it's after 6 so the traffic won't be totally heinous, if i'm lucky.

7:00pm: traffic not heinous so i'm  home by 7.  feed the cats.  make dinner.   just pasta leftovers with carrots.  and leftover strawberry shortcake (yeah i'm not really on the plan these days.  although the cool whip is sugar free.  yes, i like cool whip better than whipped cream. ).  i watch the "young and the restless" on the soap network.

8:00-9:00pm: i check email, bloglines, flickr while half watching that show before "how i met your mother" that is sometimes kind of funny but who's title i can never remember.   i also half watch "how i met your mother" while winding some freshly plied yarn onto a niddy noddy. 

9:00pm: get ready for bed, planning on watching "two and a half men" and "terms of engagement"  in bed, knowing though that i will fall asleep within minutes.

Sometimes after 9:05pm: i fall asleep.

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