Daily routine
Vicky Larmour
about the variety of jobs and hobbies that people on alt.newlywed have,
and wondering how some of you actually spend your lives on a day-to-day
basis. So, (and also because I'm just nosy!), I'll ask: what happens in
an average day for you?
For me:
8:45 - alarm goes off. Reset it for half-an-hour and go back to sleep.
9:15 - get up and ready for work (no breakfast.)
9:45 - leave for work, and arrive about 10. (Jonathan still asleep in
bed at this point!)
10:00 to 11:30 - read e-mail and news, start off on the day's work. At
the moment this is programming the higher layers of a communications
stack, in C.
11:30 - lunch! Eat free lunch in company canteen if I'm feeling
sociable, or bring it back to my desk and eat it here if not. Either
way, play some Tangleword (word game on www.playsite.com). E-mails from
Jonathan start arriving around now, so he's obviously got up and gone to
work.
12:30 to 4:00 or so - back to work. Cups of coffee get more frequent as
the day wears on. Usually some meeting or another I have to go to.
around 4:00 - take a break to stop myself going mad. More Tangleword,
or read news, or just chat with co-workers.
4:15 to 6:30 or so - more work.
alt.newlywed
(Vicky Larmour)
7:30 to 10:00 or so - chores, housework, and/or read a book or watch a
video until Jonathan gets home. On Monday nights I have a flute lesson,
and on Thursdays I have a tap dance class.
10:00 - midnight: Jonathan arrives home, re-heats his dinner and eats
while we chat. After he's eaten, we watch a video, play a board game, or
just chat some more.
midnight - we both go to bed. Jonathan brings the paper and reads it
in bed while I fall asleep in 2 seconds flat. He falls asleep around 2
or 3 am.
So there it is - not very exciting, but I'm nosey :-)
Vicky
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Susan Behr MacDuffee
On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Vicky Larmour wrote:
> As I was wandering along to get some coffee earlier, I was thinking
> about the variety of jobs and hobbies that people on alt.newlywed have,
> and wondering how some of you actually spend your lives on a day-to-day
> basis. So, (and also because I'm just nosy!), I'll ask: what happens in
> an average day for you?
4:30-5:30 a.m. DH kisses me goodbye as he leaves for work (awww)
7:00 a.m. My alarm goes off and I roll over and press the snooze bar.
Pet Lucy as I try not to roll over on to her.
7:30-8:30 a.m. let Lucy out, make lunch, shower, watch a bit of Good
Morning America, dress, put on makeup.etc.
9:00a.m.-11:00 a.m. Work, check e-mail, read news, etc.
11:00 a.m. midmorning break, eat a snack (this is my first food of the day
since I don't have breakfast)
11:15 a.m.-1:00 p.m. Work
1:00-2:00 p.m. lunch
2:00-4:00 p.m. Work
4:00 p.m. afternoon break, another snack
4:00-6:00 p.m. work
6:00-6:20 p.m. drive home
Usually after arriving home Dave has already cooked supper for us since he
gets off of work a lot earlier than me. Wednesday nights I have a class
and don't get home until after 10:00 p.m. Temporarily I am also working
until 9:00 p.m. on Monday nights.
We eat dinner and play with Lucy, watch a little television and most
nights Dave is in bed by 9:30 p.m. I stay up a little later, usually in
bed by midnight. I generally read until I am sleepy.
Pretty boring, eh? Our weekends are more exciting. We usually go out on
Friday nights to a local restaurant and then our favorite pub to visit
with friends. maybe shoot a few games of pool. Saturdays are cleaning
days for us (housework, yardwork, etc.) and we may cook out on a Saturday
night. Sundays are lazy days for sure :)
--Susan
yah...@eagle.cc.ukans.edu
: As I was wandering along to get some coffee earlier, I was thinking
: about the variety of jobs and hobbies that people on alt.newlywed have,
: and wondering how some of you actually spend your lives on a day-to-day
: basis. So, (and also because I'm just nosy!), I'll ask: what happens in
: an average day for you?
Call me paranoid, but I'm not about to make my daily routine
public knowledge. Suffice it to say that our lives are not that
exciting, and we usually do the old work/eat/sleep routine most days!
Jill :P
Vicky Larmour
> Call me paranoid, but I'm not about to make my daily routine
>public knowledge. Suffice it to say that our lives are not that
>exciting, and we usually do the old work/eat/sleep routine most days!
Jill, you're paranoid :-)))
cjr
vicky....@camcon.co.nospam.uk (Vicky Larmour) wrote:
> As I was wandering along to get some coffee earlier, I was
> thinking
> about the variety of jobs and hobbies that people on alt.newlywed
> have,
> and wondering how some of you actually spend your lives on a
> day-to-day
> basis. So, (and also because I'm just nosy!), I'll ask: what
> happens in
> an average day for you?
Well, the way it's been going lately, wake up around 4am or maybe 4:30
if I'm lucky. Toss and turn til 6 and keep telling myself "fall back to
sleep!" and getting frustrated and then either falling asleep for 15
mins which doesn't help, or just deciding to get up and go to work at
6am and stop fighting it. Debate whether or not I should ride my bike
or drive the pathetic 1.5 miles to work - then decide to drive because
I remember my tire needs to be pumped and I don't know where I put my
pump (then remember it's in the shed, but will take some effort to get
to and say "I'll do it tonight" then don't...) Or I make some excuse
about why I need to drive (going to the store afterwards), but
basically, I've just been too lazy to cycle.
My days are pretty darned boring - work, email, newsgroups, work, if
I'm lucky my boss will wait til 10am to interrupt me when I'm in the
middle of something key and ask me like a kid asking if it's Christmas
yet "So, what happened?! Did it work?!" which gets a no about 50% of
the time..... more email to DF, more work, newsgroups again while
waiting for things to thaw/spin/run, more work - another round of boss
saying 'SO! What'd you get?!" Me nearly telling her to leave me alone
so I don't lose my sanity! :-) somewhere in there I get to the gym
(been trying to make the 5:30 aerobics classes), more work - this is
where I usually do my mosquito stuff, send a gushy email to DF for the
morning, then maybe home - dinner, read a mag, watch a little TV (been
seeing too much of David Letterman lately) and then to bed...At least
I'm falling asleep pretty quickly now that I've been exercising more
regularly. If I could just get more than 4.5-5 hours, I'd be happy.
Not terribly exciting these days :-)
C.
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>
> As I was wandering along to get some coffee earlier, I was thinking
> about the variety of jobs and hobbies that people on alt.newlywed have,
> and wondering how some of you actually spend your lives on a day-to-day
> basis. So, (and also because I'm just nosy!), I'll ask: what happens in
> an average day for you?
>
>
Ok, for me:
7:00 - Alarm goes off
7:15 or so - I get up and brush teeth get dressed, feed dog, let her out
to do her stuff, check if the cat needs feeding
7:35 - Give chris a kiss, tell him to drive safe and that I love him and
have a good day. Leave for work with chris (he works 30 min past me so
we drive in together in separate cars.) Blow him a kiss at the place we
part ways.
8:00 - Arrive at work
8-12 - read emails, keep upwith my soaps, if anyone gives me work, I do
it in between
12-1 - forage for food, eat
1-5 - Same as 8-12
5:00 - leave work
5:25 - Get home, let the dogs out to do their stuff, defrost meat for
dinner, watch some tv til chris gets home, make dinner
6:15 - Chris gets home
6-8 - we eat dinner (sometime in there) - the dogs eat dinner, check on
the cat's food supply again
Dinner-bedtime - neaten up, watch tv, play on the computer, play
nintendo (whatever we feel like)
9:30-11 - Bedtime.
klsimmons
> about the variety of jobs and hobbies that people on alt.newlywed
> have, and wondering how some of you actually spend your lives on a
> day-to-day basis. So, (and also because I'm just nosy!), I'll ask:
> what happens in an average day for you?
Good question Vicky. Right now I have a pretty stable routine with the
contracting work I'm doing - especially now that the wedding season is
over for me. Things become more hectic and less controlled as
wedding/portrait season picks up.
5:45 Kev wakes me up - I dress quickly, drive him to work.
6:30 I come home, go back to bed
8:30 Get up, shower, drink coffee, check email, maybe some newsgroups
9:30 Begin programming work - sometimes I can work at home, sometimes
I have to be on site for meetings, etc. When I can work at home
I field calls from clients as well in the a.m. and schedule
meetings with portrait clients - usu. SAHM's with young children
2:00 Go get Kevin from work - usually we have lunch together
3:00 Production work on wedding / portrait clients. Schedule meetings,
process film, etc.
6:00 Kevin and I talk about who's going to cook dinner and then we
order out! <g> Eat dinner - this is *our* time in the evenings.
8:00 Back to work, either more programming, or photography work. This
is the best time for darkroom work for me, since I can leave the
door open under the black cloth and get some circulation
11:00 Bedtime (altho some nights I'm wired from working and need some
down time, so I'll email some or work on my website.
I'm usually asleep by midnight or so, although there have been nights
that I've been up until 2 or 3 just because I get sucked in. Also the
evening schedule varies quite a bit depending on whether or not I'm
meeting clients (most of the wedding clients I meet want to meet in the
evening and I allot Wednesday and Thursday nights for those), and if
I'm photographing.
Saturdays in the wedding season are also pretty regimented and I'm on
the go from early a.m. until usually well after midnight. During the
portrait season I allow for 3 sessions per Saturday if I'm not doing a
wedding. During October I'll also do Sunday sessions for the
"Christmas rush", but other than that, I don't do any client work on
Sundays.
Karen
yah...@eagle.cc.ukans.edu
: Jill, you're paranoid :-)))
Yes, yes...I was raised to be, ya know! :)
Jill :)
Geri.Clark
vicky....@camcon.co.nospam.uk (Vicky Larmour) wrote:
in
> an average day for you?
6:07 alarm goes off (really for DH, who needs to be up earlier than I
do); on good days I get up and work out; on bad days I hit the snooze
for him and stay in bed until 6:44
6:44 get up while DH showers. I get my things ready for work and iron
clothes, if needed
7:00 walk dog with DH and send him to the subway
7:15-8:00 get ready for work and read paper/watch morning news show
8:00 leave for work; arrive around 8:45 (after a 10-minute detour to
Starbucks for coffee)
8:45-9:30/10:00 read and return email; read news web sites and news
wires and a.n. No one else in my office arrives before 11:00, so this is
my quality time with myself.
10:00-12:00 do whatever work I have to do (random writing and editing);
call DH to see how his day is going
12:00-12:45ish lunch; I go out to a local, overpriced place and try to
get something healthy. I eat at my desk while surfing frivilous web
sites and reading a.n
12:45-5:00ish more work. I've been pretty good about leaving at a
reasonable hour lately
5:00-5:30 commute home
5:30-6:30 walk and feed dog; check home email account
6:30-11:00 up for grabs; any chores that need to be done; some nights
we eat dinner, some nights we're just not hungry. About once a week DH
has a work-related evening activity; I go along about 25% of the time. I
go to boxing class on Wednesdays from 8-9pm. Other nights I try to work
out if I didn't do it in the morning. DH usually has some time on the
rowing machine in here somewhere. If I'm feeling motivated, I do some
freelance research or writing.
Also not very exciting, I'm afraid...
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Robin
> So there it is - not very exciting, but I'm nosey :-)
Mine's not going to be very exciting either, but I'm nosy too, so here
goes.
6:45 - Eric wakes up, Robin stays blissfully asleep
7:15 - Eric comes in to get dressed, Robin starts waking up
7:30 - Cursing herself for not setting the coffee the night before, Robin
makes coffee. Half regular, half decaf, so I can drink more and not get
quite so caffeine dependant. Eric doesn't drink it.
8:00 - Eric leaves for work, Robin logs on to "the 'net"
9:00 - Robin finishes with the newsgroups, starts looking for ways to
procrastinate doing real work.
(On Tuesdays and Thursdays I'm taking a tax prep course from 9-12 in the
morning, which has been *greatly* disrupting my morning routine!)
Somewhere around 2:00 - Robin remembers she hasn't eaten lunch, debates
whether she wants it or not, eventually eats, then isn't hungry at a
normal dinner time.
3:00 - Does the dance of joy because the mail has come. On days when
there is no mail, checks the mailbox every hour until she finally
remembers this. Yes, checking the mail does seem to be the highlight of
my day. Any questions as to why I'm looking for a new job?
Until 5:30 - procrastinates doing real work/manages to work some in.
Doesn't like it.
5:30 - Eric comes home, Robin and Fiji get all excited because they're
completely sick of each others' company by now.
7:00 - dinner, eaten at the table, each and every night. Okay, so it's
the coffee table, but damnit it's a table!
(Wednesdays - Robin has search and rescue, Eric goes to a friends' house
to work on the Rabbit)
Miscellaneous TV, computer games, newsgroups, movies, chatting fill the
rest of the evening.
10:00 - (don't laugh!) go to bed. Eric usually reads until 10:30 or so,
I read until 11. Occasionally "other" activities take the place of
reading.
Woo-hoo! I *am* boring!
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please identify it as such.
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> 5:45 Kev wakes me up - I dress quickly, drive him to work.
> 6:30 I come home, go back to bed
Karen - how on earth do you manage to do that? Go out & then when you come
back 45 minutes later go back to bed for a short time?? I mean, I'd love to
do it myself, but if I was to get back in bed, it would be for a good many
hours, not just one or two :-)
Kirsch
I'd give up chocolate -- but I'm no quitter!
T
> So, (and also because I'm just nosy!), I'll ask: what happens in
> an average day for you?
Okay, nosy!
[Optional: 5-5:30 a.m. - Richter decides she's lonely so she meows loudly
from the top of the stairs. I'll go upstairs, turn on the TV, and watch
morning news shows with the cat, until]
7:00 ish - Don is up and he starts pointing out that I'm going to be late
and/or fired if I don't get up now. He starts this before his shower and
gets louder when he's clean and dry. He's better than a snooze alarm.
By 7:15 Get up. Get breakfast. Eat with cat. Grab clothes from upstairs
(with fashion commentary from the cat).
7:30: Say bye to Don, get into the sodden shower. Get dressed.
8:00ish : Run around house doing straightening. Toss comforter across
bed. Collect dishes. Empty ashtrays. Put laundry in hampers. Say hi to
birds, making sure their cage is closed. Do a load of dishes.
8:20ish: Leave for bus.
8:40ish: Get to work. Check mail. Do first pile of DNS entries. Help do
miscellaneous cool stuff.
Noonish: Lunch, usually at desk, bought near office. Occasional errands.
PM - more work.
5:15ish - Leave work. Go home or go to Y.
Evenings: I've registered for like 5 classes at the y, but I've skipped a
buttload of them this session because of all the house stuff. I'll often
run errands to Walgreens or the hardware store or grocery, and then home.
If Don's working (2 nights/week) I've been making dinner for when he gets
home, but usually he gets home first. There's always something different
in the evening: Some nights I'll cook a fabulous meal and we'll play
bourgeois dining companions (sitting across the table the long way, candle
light, classic music on the CD), sometime we'll eat separately and I'll
hang out with the cat, sometimes there's a huge project to deal with. (Last
night we had our DSL line installed. WHEE!)
For fun, we play Playstation football games, watch videos, and play with
the birds.
Weekends: I get quiet time in the morning - I usually wake up about 4 hours
before he does. This means I can run errands, read quietly, or do any
project that doesn't involve loud noises or the bedroom. He has his quiet
time in the evening, because I'm usually ready to crash around 11-midnight.
klsimmons
<kirschkit...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> 5:45 Kev wakes me up - I dress quickly, drive him to work.
>> 6:30 I come home, go back to bed
> Karen - how on earth do you manage to do that? Go out & then when
> you come back 45 minutes later go back to bed for a short time??
Well, to be honest, getting up the second time is pretty hard. I
really, really want to turn off the alarm and sleep for another few
hours. In fact some mornings that I don't have to be on site I've done
it, but it plays merry hell with my day since I have to find some time
to make up that undone work. And, of course, if I sleep in any later
I'm not ready to go to bed by 11 or midnight and then I wind up staying
up and it's harder to get up the next morning and.... You get the
idea! <g>
OTOH, if I don't come back and catch some kind of nap, I get so sleepy
I can barely function at about 10:30 am. And I'm a complete crab the
rest of the day.
Vicky Larmour
T <te...@uuwm.edu> wrote:
>Weekends: I get quiet time in the morning - I usually wake up about 4 hours
>before he does. This means I can run errands, read quietly, or do any
>project that doesn't involve loud noises or the bedroom. He has his quiet
>time in the evening, because I'm usually ready to crash around 11-midnight.
I forgot to say about weekends! What you described there is pretty much
are weekend routine too. I'm usually up around 10, DH wakes up
grudgingly (with the help of much poking and shouting from me) around
midday. Sometimes he persuades me to get back into bed for a cuddle and
then I inevitably fall asleep again :-)
Robin
paranoid *about*!
I swear... we've been through 4 ISPs in less than a year, and they're all
pitiful.
hillary israeli
*basis. So, (and also because I'm just nosy!), I'll ask: what happens in
*an average day for you?
Ok, for "average" day, I will use a random weekday here at VHUP, our
small animal hospital:
5:00 - alarm goes off. I roll over and try to ignore it to no avail.
5:10 - get up, get ready, etc
5:40 - leave house
6:00 - arrive at VHUP. Do patient assessments, morning treatments
7:30 - pick up new cases assigned to my service who are waiting in the
emergency room, assess and start treatments
9:00 - start seeing appointments
3:00 - done seeing appointments. start 4 pm treatments, write discharge
instructions for patients going home, check on any patients of mine in
radiology, check any consultations from other services, try to grab a
snack (poptarts from vending machine, spare slice of pizza from drug rep,
etc)
5:00 - have rounds with senior clinician on service
7:00 - hopefully be done rounds, do 6 pm treatments
8:00 - leave hospital
8:30 - arrive home, greet husband, beg for dinner which he usually provides.
9:30 - get ready for bed
10:30 - go to sleep.
Now, this is an average. There are days where I get home sooner (thank god)
and days when I get home later (bleah). Email is checked in between
tasks throughout the day :)
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: Well gee, if I didn't have such a lousy newsfeed I might know what Jill's
: paranoid *about*!
Thousands of people knowing about my and Bruce's comings and
goings!
Jill :)
Susan Behr MacDuffee
On 21 Oct 1999 yah...@eagle.cc.ukans.edu wrote:
> Vicky Larmour (vicky....@camcon.co.nospam.uk) wrote:
>
> : Jill, you're paranoid :-)))
>
> Yes, yes...I was raised to be, ya know! :)
I didn't think anything of posting my daily routine. I guess I figured
that no one would be interested (except for Vicky of course :)
--Susan
KathyK
Wake up at 5:29 to turn off the alarm before it wakes Stan up. I used
to be the Snooze Button queen, but marriage has changed that.
5:30 - 6:15 - putter around the house, watch TV, eat breakfast, waste
time that I could have used slleping if I could only use that darn
snooze button...
6:15 - 6:30 - shower and get dressed
6:30 - give Stan a wake-up/good-bye kiss and leave for work
7:00 - arrive at work
7:00 - 11:45 - write documents, reply to phone calls, answer e-mail,
check newsgroups, etc.
11:45 - 11:55 - grab lunch from the cafeteria and bring it back to my
desk (this must be done before noon when the people in manufacturing
mob the cafeteria, or else, I wait until 12:45 or so).
11:55 - 3:30 work while eating lunc, do more work, review some
documents, do some filing - fun, eh?
3:30 - 4:15 (or 5:00 depending on traffic) - drive home
whenever I get home - when Stan gets home - read the mail, check
answering machine messages, straighten, decompress, start dinner
evening - eat dinner with Stan (unless we're meeting up at the house to
check on the progress... I hope standard time never comes!)... do some
scrapbooking, make some Memories calls ("Hello, would you like to
schedule a home class... no?... OK... bye."), etc.
7:00 - 10:00 - watch TV, spend time with hubby, whatever
10:00 is bedtime for me!
Jan A. Cordes
I'm not working. I stay up late, get up late and do what I want most
of the time. This week there are lots of vet visits to deal with.
When I'm ambitious I stop playing on the computer and clean something
or I play with or clean up after the kittens.
The only routine thing is that I have a clogging class on Mondays and
I feed the feral cats every night
Jan
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Wende A. Feller
>
> As I was wandering along to get some coffee earlier, I was thinking
> about the variety of jobs and hobbies that people on alt.newlywed have,
> and wondering how some of you actually spend your lives on a day-to-day
Pour moi:
6:15 Crack bleary eye open, notice that large gray cat has stolen my
pillow.
6:30 Husband appears from whatever he's been doing, wearing walkman so
that he can receive messages from the mother ship. He swears it's just
Minnesota Public Radio. Most important, he comes bearing ice water and
the morning paper. Attempt to read good bits of paper to husband while
he's washing dishes (our bedroom is next to the kitchen) -- get response
of "I can't hear you" every third sentence.
6:45 Husband reappears with coffee and asks, "Were you talking to me or
the cat?"
7:15 Husband departs. Time to read newsgroups. Pour second cup of
coffee.
8:10 Discover that I've read every new message twice; go take shower,
causing early-calling clients to leave phone messages.
8:40 Pour third cup of coffee; toast waffles. Realize that all of
today's projects require answers from clients that they have not yet
provided even though they wanted the project yesterday. Check
newsgroups: no new messages. Attempt to make progress on projects
anyway. Wonder who invented the "touch each piece of paper only once"
rule and whether they've been locked up yet.
9:00 Remove large gray cat from printer.
9:10 Computer crashes. Heat fourth cup of coffee while rebooting. Return
phone messages; end up leaving voice-mails as everyone with urgent needs
is now out shooting pheasant.
9:25 Rustle through piles of yellowing faxes to find answers to client's
questions. Swear once again that getting organized is a MAJOR priority.
Switch to fruit juice. Remove small black cat from mouse pad. Repeat
this routine as needed to fill morning.
11:50 Wander into kitchen to make lunch. Discover that we're out of
food. Make quesadilla in microwave. Take lunch to desk in order to
finish project that supposedly *must* be done by one.
12:50 Email completed project to client. Get "Out of Office Auto-Reply"
message.
12:55 Count how many days I'm behind on doing my billing. Wonder how I
expect to get paid if I don't send bills. Remove large gray cat from
mouse pad.
1:00 Go back to different urgently needed project. Discover that it can
proceed only if people return my phone calls. Consider making dinner
early to get head start. Futz around with other ongoing projects
instead.
1:30 Computer crashes. Make tea while waiting for it to reboot.
2:30 Decide that making dinner isn't such a bad idea after all. As soon
as onions start frying nicely, clients begin to return calls. Dash back
and forth trying to organize notes while preventing onions from burning.
2:45 Put lid on large pot to allow dinner to simmer. Proceed with
projects now that new data has come in.
4:30 Discover that dinner is as done as it's ever going to get. Wonder
how many bacteria will breed between now and arrival of husband.
5:30 Husband arrives, followed by second small black cat that has spent
the day on the enclosed porch pining for him. Feed husband dinner.
Remove large white cat from plate.
6:00 Lie about and read with husband and cats, feeling vaguely guilty
for not doing housework, but not so guilty as to get up and do it.
7:30 Large white cat bullies two small black cats and a large gray one
off the bed. Yell "Peaceable Kingdom!" at cat bully. Cat bully looks
smug and unimpressed.
8:30 Husband announces, "I'm going to brush my teeth."
10:00 Husband falls asleep. Wake husband to get him to put the futon
frame down. Rearrange sheets, blankets, and cats to provide room for
everyone. Go to sleep.
And so it goes...
Wende
Wende A. Feller
>
> 8:00 - Eric leaves for work, Robin logs on to "the 'net"
> 9:00 - Robin finishes with the newsgroups, starts looking for ways to
> procrastinate doing real work.
> Doesn't like it.
> 5:30 - Eric comes home, Robin and Fiji get all excited because they're
> completely sick of each others' company by now.
Are you *sure* you wouldn't like to live in a little snow? Our routines
mesh so well! We could leave my husband in charge of all the cats and go
have coffee at regular intervals, like every 45 minutes. There's a very
nice rowhouse for sale just the other side of Washington Park, around
which we intend to ceremoniously walk the most outgoing (in all senses)
of our cats.
Wende
Susan Behr MacDuffee
On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Wende A. Feller wrote:
> 7:30 Large white cat bullies two small black cats and a large gray one
> off the bed. Yell "Peaceable Kingdom!" at cat bully. Cat bully looks
> smug and unimpressed.
Wende, as usual you provided me with a laugh on a dreary afternoon.
Thanks. I think I should try this tactic with my puppy, Lucy. She just
growls her fool head off when I even try to rearrange myself in bed at
night.
--Susan
HollyLewis
5:30 a.m. Alarm goes off and bedroom light turns on. (It's on a timer.)
Sometime thereafter, I hit the snooze button in my sleep.
7:00 a.m. I wake enough to be conscious of the fact that I am hitting the
snooze button.
7:30 a.m. I get up and take a shower. Ken gets up shortly before or shortly
after me, it varies. Do makeup, get dressed, dry hair. Ken is eating
breakfast, reading the paper, and making lunches.
8:30 a.m. Leave for work. Read or sleep on the bus.
9:30 a.m. Arrive at work, get coffee and eat Pop Tarts for breakfast (I keep
them in my desk drawer). Do some actual work. (I'm a paralegal and office
manager. I write and edit letters, contracts, and court filings, make phone
calls, organize evidence and prepare various sorts of exhibits, meet with
clients, generate bills, supervise the file clerk, deal with our computer
consultant, ride herd on my brilliant but scatterbrained boss.)
1:00ish, depending how busy I am. Eat the lunch Ken made at my desk. Read
a.n. Monthly, pay bills and do online bank account transfers. Deal with other
"personal business" calls or letters. Get back to work.
6:10 p.m. (usually) Leave office. Read on bus home. Possible stop at hardware
store between train station and home.
7:00 to 7:30ish. Get home, read mail and newspaper, have a glass of milk. Ken
gets home about the same time. Occasionally fix something for and/or eat
dinner. All of this doesn't apply on Mondays, when I've gone straight from
work to chorus rehearsal, which is 7:30 to 9:45.
8:30ish. Change clothes and strip or paint window frames, install shelves or
drapery rods, unpack and organize office stuff or books, or some other work on
the house. Maybe run a load of laundry. Except Mondays.
10:30 or so. Begin to think about going to bed when I've finished whatever I'm
working on. Maybe have a snack. Maybe think about making a phone call, and
realize it's too late at night to call anyone. (On Mondays, get home from
rehearsal, read mail, definitely have a snack.)
11:00 or so. Really think about going to bed. Maybe read the newspaper, if I
haven't yet.
11:30 Change into nightshirt, wash face, brush teeth, etc. Ken usually is in
bed reading by this time.
12:00 Get into bed. Ken puts book down and falls asleep instantly.
Sometime between 1:00 and 3:00 a.m. Fall asleep.
Yes, I am a sleep deprived night owl who hits the snooze button for TWO HOURS.
No, I never exercise (other than walking between the transit station and the
office, and working on the house). And yes, I really and truly hardly ever
watch television.
Before we bought the house, the evening activity might be reading or cross
stitch or working on chorus music, sometimes going out to dinner with friends
or just the two of us, walking up to the bookstore, or, at the relevant times,
wedding planning stuff, vacation planning stuff, other projects like that;
before my office moved (and my mode of commute travel was a lot more
convenient), I often stayed late at the office to read newsgroups or play Myst
or do other stuff on my computer, and I often went shopping for clothes or
gifts in San Francisco after work. We used to eat something that qualified as
an actual dinner a little more often.
Yes, I am obsessed with my house. If we ever finish painting I'll invite y'all
over. :-)
Holly
Russ and Becky
5:30 alarm goes off, hubby waits *TOO* long to hit that snooze. Decide we'll
go work out later because the bed it just too comfortable
<sleep>
6:30 -7:00
Get up, shower, get dressed, spend time with DH
8:00
Hubster leaves, I read newsgroups and commence studying
8:05 after reading "the present value sum of the disounted future free cash
flows of the firm is a good predictor of future earnings and firm growth.."
decide I don't want to study. Check for new messages on newsgroup. Decide
house should be cleaned, laundry should be done. General procrastination.
10:00
Realize that I *do* have to read the 500 page case for class *today* and get
to it
10:03 Hubby calls, just as I am getting in the studying zone
check newsgroups, go back to case and try, try, try to concentrate
11:30
Figure out how many more days left in the semester
Noon
Lunch - sometimes with Dh, sometimes not
Get ready, leave for class
Post class (5:00)
read newsgroups, think about what to have for dinner. Make something easy,
wish we had the $$ to eat out.
7-12 or whenever it gets done
Study like a madwoman for the 5 million quizzes, projects, exams, and
presentation that I always seem to have; go to group meetings/study
sessions. Come home obscenely late, way after DH is in bed. Promptly
collapse. Think, " how much longer can I do this???" Followed by "do I have
everything I need done for tomorrow?"
This is a boring life!!!
Becky
Susan Behr MacDuffee <sb...@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu> wrote in message
news:Pine.SV4.4.10.991021...@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu...
Rebecca
>Well gee, if I didn't have such a lousy newsfeed I might know what Jill's
>paranoid *about*!
>
>I swear... we've been through 4 ISPs in less than a year, and they're all
>pitiful.
We've been using Erols for over a year. Haven't attempted to kill it
- yet. Not sure if it makes it to SW VA though; as you mentioned in
another post, it might as well be another country from DC/VA :-)
--
Rebecca <rc...@my-deja.com>
Rebecca
>As I was wandering along to get some coffee earlier, I was thinking
>about the variety of jobs and hobbies that people on alt.newlywed have,
>and wondering how some of you actually spend your lives on a day-to-day
>basis. So, (and also because I'm just nosy!), I'll ask: what happens in
>an average day for you?
I'm amazed at all of you who have time alloted to each of your
activities. I have no idea what "time" it is when I do things. I'm
vaguely aware that we wake up sometime before 6am, that I work during
the day from about 9am to variable times, dependent on day of week,
and that I come home, and if it's my turn to cook, prepare dinner.
One thing I noticed - a lot of people seem to read the newsgroup in
the morning; I personally read it after work, while I'm waiting for FH
to arrive home. Is this just me? :-) It's my "unwinding at the end of
the work day" activity.
--
Rebecca <rc...@my-deja.com>
Kirsch
news:19991021161749...@ng-fs1.aol.com...
> Yes, I am obsessed with my house. If we ever finish painting I'll invite
y'all
> over. :-)
Oh Holly - are you *still* busy with the painting? You said you'd been
over-ambitious, but surely you couldn't have underestimated this much? :-)
Kirsch
news:380f81ca....@news.erols.com...
> One thing I noticed - a lot of people seem to read the newsgroup in
> the morning; I personally read it after work, while I'm waiting for FH
> to arrive home. Is this just me? :-) It's my "unwinding at the end of
> the work day" activity.
No, I tend to read mostly in the evenings. Of course, because I'm in the UK
this means it appears in *your* mornings..... :-)
cjr
(Rebecca) wrote:
> I'm amazed at all of you who have time alloted to each of your
> activities. I have no idea what "time" it is when I do things.
> I'm
> vaguely aware that we wake up sometime before 6am, that I work
> during
> the day from about 9am to variable times, dependent on day of week,
> and that I come home, and if it's my turn to cook, prepare dinner.
That sounds a little more like my schedule, except I usually go into
work by 8 usually (I don't work right away tho - the day starts with
coffee and email and newsgroups). I've had to make a time allotment for
aerobics class, but nothing else ever follows a set time frame so I
just make a list of what I need to get done during the day, try to make
it all practical, then hope I can get it all done and still be home at
a reasonable hour. Of course, if every experiment worked the first time
this would never be a problem! :-)
> One thing I noticed - a lot of people seem to read the newsgroup in
> the morning; I personally read it after work, while I'm waiting
> for FH
> to arrive home. Is this just me? :-) It's my "unwinding at the
> end of
> the work day" activity.
I would if I had a computer at home. It'd be a good night-time activity
now that DF is away. I can only access it inthe lab, though, and I've
gotten in the habit of checking it peridically throughout the day (not
a good habit).
C.
Jason & Stefani Greene
Vicky Larmour <vicky....@camcon.co.nospam.uk> wrote in message
news:7un7mn$qa$1...@andromeda.camcon.co.uk...
> As I was wandering along to get some coffee earlier, I was thinking
> about the variety of jobs and hobbies that people on alt.newlywed have,
> and wondering how some of you actually spend your lives on a day-to-day
> basis. So, (and also because I'm just nosy!), I'll ask: what happens in
> an average day for you?
Hmmm... this is fun...
6am - alarm goes off, hit snooze, lay back down... hubby complains that I'll
never get up if I keep hitting snooze.
6:30am - finally get out of bed... stumble to the shower
6:45am - get out of shower, blow dry hair (stopping every few seconds to
catch something good on tv)
7:15am - finally done with the hair... start looking for something to
wear... try on every outfit that I haven't already worn this week, chose
something, iron it, decide against it, try something else on, iron it... it
goes on and on...
7:45am - I've finally chosen what to wear! feed the dogs, take the dogs
outside, wait and wait, then let the dogs back inside, wake up hubby
8:00am - (supposed to be at work right now!!) do makeup quickly! Hubby is
already ready to go.
8:15am - search the house for my keys, hubby leaves for work
8:20am - leave for work
8:40am - finally walk into work looking like a ragged mess (as I always do
when I'm late, which I am everyday), plop my bag down on my desk, boot up
the computer then head down to the break room with the girls for some
breakfast and chat
9am - start work, finally! read email, listen to voice mail, get on the
priority things such as faxing and mailing invoices to customers, etc
9:30am - go to shipping, argue with shipping people who don't know what they
have shipped and have not shipped so now I don't know what to bill... argh!
9:45am - back to my desk to work on billng for whatever shipping knows for
sure they shipped, call freight companies trying to figure out what shipping
couldn't tell me
10:30am - look at the clock and wonder if its too early to take off for
lunch, continue to work on the billing
11:45am - look at the clock again and start thinking about what I'm hungry
for... I stare for 15 minutes until its 12pm
12pm - go to the fridge, pull out icky frozen chinese, microwave it then
head back to my desk
12:10pm - eat and read newsgroups, make personal phone calls, surf the net,
etc
1pm - back to work! go back to shipping again and harrass them until they
finally tell me everything that shipped
1:30pm - bill the customers, deal with problems in billing caused by sales
reps
2pm - harrass sales reps until they get their orders corrected so I can bill
2:30pm - work on billing reports
3:30pm - take on billings that have finally been corrected by sales
4:45pm - stare at the clock and wonder if I should just go home early...
keep staring until 5pm
5pm - run to the car as fast as I can so that nobody has time to stop me
5:20pm - finally home, hubby is watching tv and waiting for me... we talk
about our days, read snail mail, talk about dinner but make no concrete
decisions
6pm - read newsgroups, email friends and family, watch a little tv with
hubby, make some really simple dinner like hamburger helper, let the dogs
outside, wait and wait, then let the dogs back inside
7pm - eat and watch tv together
8pm - watch some more tv together
9pm - back on the computer, both of us this time... looking for apartments
for our move or looking for info on insurance, etc
10pm - we say we're going to bed, but find a million things that need to be
done before bed (laundry, usually), let the dogs outside, wait and wait,
then let the dogs back inside (they sure do take their time!)
11pm - I finally go to bed, hubby stays up a while and dinks around on the
computer
12pm - hubby finally comes to bed, giving me a kiss
Whew!
Sarah J
>So, (and also because I'm just nosy!), I'll ask: what
> happens in an average day for you?
5:30 AM DH's alarm goes off, I usually don't even notice
6:30 DH kisses me goodbye as he leaves for work
7:30 My alarm goes off (the first time)
8-8:30 Get up
8:30-10ish Read email and newsgroups, listen to Morning Edition on
NPR, eat granola bars for breakfast, sometimes finish last minute
schoolwork
10ish Shower, get dressed, try to remember what I need to take to
school with me.
Ride bus to campus (sometimes up to 10 minutes waiting for bus, about 8
minutes on bus).
Depending on the day, teach discussion sections (gotta love those
undergrads!), go to my own classes, or sit in my office trying to do
productive work.
3:30 or 4:30 Ride bus home, unless I had previously convinced DH to
pick me up instead
4:30 Typical conversation about dinner: "What do you want?" "I don't
know, what do you want?" until we rationalize eating out or one of us
decides to fix something. I'll have a snack if we won't eat for a long
time.
5:30ish Dinner, usually watching TV
6-10ish Reading homework, grading papers, watching TV, playing on
computer, knitting, or talking with DH
10ish "Bunny jobs" I change both litterboxes, feed them hay, and sweep
up hay from the floor, while DH washes their fresh vegetables.
10-12 Watch TV, read, or chat with DH until I fall asleep.
Yep, I have a boring life!
Sarah
cjr
<sarahaj...@my-deja.com.invalid> wrote:
> 8:30-10ish Read email and newsgroups, listen to Morning Edition on
> NPR, eat granola bars for breakfast, sometimes finish last minute
> schoolwork
Ok, I'm going to be *really* geeky here, but for those of you who are
NPR listeners, do you feel like there's something missing from your day
if you don't listen to it? After awhile, I feel like I know the
commentators. Since I moved to IN, the programming is a little
different than it was in CT (tho Morning Edition is the same of
course), and every once in awhile I get nostalgic for WSHU (CT). I like
our local station, but for some weird reason, a couple of commentators
make me think of CT, and I find myself reminiscing.... I keep waiting
to hear 'slowing on the L.I.E.' 'backup on Montauk' (which is funny
because I didn't live on Long Island, but I don't recall the traffic
reports from CT, just LI!)
When I'm with other co-workers, and we'll all be discussing NPR like we
would Seinfeld (which we'd do as well...) Then I realised, perhaps
we're weird? (This stemmed form when I heard a reference to some
political candidate who was only known to the "NPR crowd." )
I like my local IN PR station in the evenings though - they play "the
blues" - it's great music to listen to while working, tho I suspect our
cleaning lady thinks I'm weird dancing around while setting up an
experiment!
C.
Sarah J
<cjrNO...@my-deja.com.invalid> wrote:
> for those of you who are NPR listeners, do you feel like there's
something missing from your day
> if you don't listen to it?
Definitely! And I may be even geekier than you! I have to admit that
on days when I get up early, I sometimes end up listening to Morning
Edition more than once. I get concerned when all they'll say is that
Bob Edwards "is away" and I hope he's okay.
> When I'm with other co-workers, and we'll all be discussing NPR
> like we
> would Seinfeld (which we'd do as well...) Then I realised, perhaps
> we're weird?
I've recently had separate conversations with two of my classmates
about how great NPR is and what our favorite shows are.
My local station has World Cafe in the evenings. I like the nice mix
of different types of music, especially the "folky" stuff.
Sarah
cjr
<sarahaj...@my-deja.com.invalid> wrote:
> Definitely! And I may be even geekier than you! I have to admit
> that
> on days when I get up early, I sometimes end up listening to
> Morning
> Edition more than once. I get concerned when all they'll say is
> that
> Bob Edwards "is away" and I hope he's okay.
Phew! I'm not the only one! It's the first thing I do in the morning
when I get out of bed - turn on NPR. In CT they used to have the
Christian Science Monitor report before NPR's Morning Edition (around
5am), which I often listened to. And, my new thing I learned, how many
people say "Pi-no-shay"? All of a sudden they started saying "Pino
_chet*".... then they did a little tidbit on how they were finally
corrected on the pronunciation.
Of course, I also do it with BBC. I have realaudio on my computer at
work, so when I get in in the morning (the radio is in another room), I
click on BBC and get to hear the BBCWorld Service music which always
starts my day right! I can see how such things link ex-pats around the
world (tho I'm not a British ex-pat!) - wherever you go, you hear the
music and it takes you back....In my case to Kenya, though, not the UK
:-)
C.
Karen Simmons
> Ok, I'm going to be *really* geeky here, but for those of you who
> are NPR listeners, do you feel like there's something missing from
> your day if you don't listen to it?
Cherise,
You're not alone. I always listen to NPR in the mornings and I usually
listen to All Things Considered in the evening. Of course Kev and I
both make sure we have time for "Car Talk" on Sundays at 4 p.m. And we
get "Blue Monday" every Monday night.
Karen
--
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Atlanta, Georgia
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Barbara Elizabeth Warner
>
> As I was wandering along to get some coffee earlier, I was thinking
> about the variety of jobs and hobbies that people on alt.newlywed have,
> and wondering how some of you actually spend your lives on a day-to-day
> an average day for you?
>
me/us, I was going to start a similar thread.
Here's our weekday routine (excepting wierd freaky days like this
morning -- a whole other story!)
BTW: I'm an "articling student", doing a job (sort of a clerkship) which
is required for me to write the bar next fall. I do research and
hands-on advocacy, in the REgional (municipal government)'s legal
department.
7:00 My buzzer alarm goes off; I usually don't snnoze - just turn it off
and go to the shower
7:30/35 Having showered, gotten ready, managed to scrounge for a lunch
(hopefully already package) in the fridge, I'm out the door to the bus
-- but usually wake up DH with a goodbye kiss first
7:39 Bus leaves for downtown (stupid trivia: it's the O-C Transpo #14,
from the beginning of the west end of the route - steps from our house)
8:10 - 9:00: I peruse newspapers online (for coverage of municipal
events/legal stuff -- lots of it lately due to restructuring of our
govt), read email, decide what I'm doing for the morning
9:00: Make small pot of tea and dig into files....
10:00: Accompany co-worker on trek to cafeteria, but usually don't buy
anything, sometimes a juice and/or a muffin
10:15: Email from Julian starts to arrive; usually a steady trickle
throughout the day
Also thoroughout day - occasional web surfing, phone calls, etc., - I
don't take a 'coffee break' but I do take a phone call or web break!
11:00: (Every third day): Go to court to file documents, run errands,
etc.
2:00pm: Eat lunch and take a break (web surfing, walk outside, visit
public library, run errands)
4:00: Start wrapping up file work, review next day's urgent work
4:45 Leave for bus home (Trivia: O-C Transpo bus #176, from U of Ottawa
to MErivale & Caldwell)
5:30 - 7:00: Arrive home, watch taped video of soap opera or other tv
show(s), check newsgroups
6:30ish DH arrives home, we decide on dinner
7:00 - 8:00: We eat dinner together -- usually while watching Law and
Order <g>
8:00 - 11:00: Watch tv, check email/newsgroups, do housework, play games
-- Julian usually just plays computer games, and will watch a show if
it's something he really likes (Like, oh, Law and Order - again.)
11:00/30: To bed for me! (HAve to get atleast 7 hours or I get sick.
Sore stiff joints are no fun and not condusive to productive days nor
happy nights - so I stick to this. I even did it when I was working
12-14 hour days!)
Sometime 11:15 - 12:15, Julian also goes to bed. (Last night, it was
actually 4:45am when he finished saving the universe and came to bed.
He woke me up and insisted on talking to me!! I ended up sleeping in on
a morning when I *had* to be in the office early, and **had** to get a
signature from a Director then go to a meeting at 9am at the opposite
end of the city. Barely made it - that was a post unto itself!!)
Gainesmk
6:30 a.m. Alarm goes off, Mark turns it off and turns on the local news on TV.
7:00 a.m. Actually get out of bed, and get ready for work, while watching
Today on NBC
7:40 a.m. Leave for work, listen to hysterical radio talk show that cuts in
with country station in Ventura somewhere. Makes for very interesting
conversation.
8:00 a.m. Get to work. Get some decaf tea, make my bagel & cream cheese.
Start working on whatever I'd doing that day (usually paperwork and follow-up
paperwork, in hand, typed or on the computer).
12:00 p.m. Go to lunch. Sometimes fast food, sometimes a sit-down place,
sometimes from home, sometimes with Mark, sometimes with co-workers, most of
the time with a book. Read email, read a.n. on Deja and get frustrated that I
can only respond by email to the author.
1:00 p.m. Work more. Gab with co-workers. Make large decaf iced tea.
3:00 p.m. Take pre-natal, get heartburn. Check at least one baby webpage to
make sure that there are no pregnancy facts that I've somehow missed. Find
one, feel better.
5:00ish Leave for home. Stop at either grocery store, Home Depot, Wal-Mart,
Ross or other retail establishment 2x per week to pick up or return something.
6:00 p.m. Get home. Eat something smallish, read the paper, get the mail
(hey, Robin - I *love* mail time, too!), let the cats out to the garden to
roll, eat another smallish item. I will make dinner for Mark maybe once a week
now.
6:30 - 7:00 p.m. Mark gets home. Chat for a bit, watch rerun of Friends and
Seinfeld. Help Mark determine what food to prepare for himself. Straighten up
the house a bit.
8:00 - 10:00 p.m. Watch TV program (Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday). Gab
more about our days and stuff. Get on-line, read email and respond to a.n. and
mkp. Yell "I hate AOL" at least 3x. Close up windows since stoner neighbors
are outside, and are "sharing" their after meal snack. Read a magazine or
book. Take a lukewarm bath. Talk to assorted family members. Pay bills.
Play with cats.
10:00 p.m. Take Phenergan pill, and start to drift. Usually get a foot rub
from Mark. Read until book hits face, then turn off light and go to sleep.
Mark comes in 1-2 hours later to actually sleep, or watches TV in bed until
then.
12:00 a.m. Get up to pee. Kick cat who likes to weave by my feet (black cat
in a dark room - not wise but I think she likes it).
2:00 a.m. Get up to pee. Come back to cat in my warm spot.
Wow - what an exciting life we lead! =P
Fridays are our date night. This does not mean that we always go out but it
does mean that Mark provides the food and we do *something* together.
Saturdays are housecleaning and yardwork days, and we usually have at least one
social thing to do. Right now, Sundays are football. When they show the
Chargers at home, great. If not, we get in the car and drive down to El
Torito's in San Diego to have brunch and watch it there. Mass is on Sunday
nights at 6:00 p.m. Waiting impatiently for X-Files to begin, so we can resume
our whole Sunday routine day of laziness.
kellie (feeling dull - hey, we start birthing classes soon, so that will be one
more thing a week!)
Julia
cla...@my-deja.com
vicky....@camcon.co.nospam.uk (Vicky Larmour) wrote:
> As I was wandering along to get some coffee earlier, I was thinking
> about the variety of jobs and hobbies that people on alt.newlywed
have,
> and wondering how some of you actually spend your lives on a day-to-
day
> basis. So, (and also because I'm just nosy!), I'll ask: what happens
in
> an average day for you?
>
>
> 8:45 - alarm goes off. Reset it for half-an-hour and go back to
sleep.
> 9:15 - get up and ready for work (no breakfast.)
> 9:45 - leave for work, and arrive about 10. (Jonathan still asleep in
> bed at this point!)
>
> 10:00 to 11:30 - read e-mail and news, start off on the day's work.
At
> the moment this is programming the higher layers of a communications
> stack, in C.
>
> 11:30 - lunch! Eat free lunch in company canteen if I'm feeling
> sociable, or bring it back to my desk and eat it here if not. Either
> way, play some Tangleword (word game on www.playsite.com). E-mails
from
> Jonathan start arriving around now, so he's obviously got up and gone
to
> work.
>
> 12:30 to 4:00 or so - back to work. Cups of coffee get more frequent
as
> the day wears on. Usually some meeting or another I have to go to.
>
> around 4:00 - take a break to stop myself going mad. More Tangleword,
> or read news, or just chat with co-workers.
>
> 4:15 to 6:30 or so - more work.
>
> alt.newlywed
>
> (Vicky Larmour)
>
> 7:30 to 10:00 or so - chores, housework, and/or read a book or watch
a
> video until Jonathan gets home. On Monday nights I have a flute
lesson,
> and on Thursdays I have a tap dance class.
>
> 10:00 - midnight: Jonathan arrives home, re-heats his dinner and eats
> while we chat. After he's eaten, we watch a video, play a board game,
or
> just chat some more.
>
> midnight - we both go to bed. Jonathan brings the paper and reads it
> in bed while I fall asleep in 2 seconds flat. He falls asleep around
2
> or 3 am.
>
> So there it is - not very exciting, but I'm nosey :-)
> Vicky
>
> --
> vicky.larmour[at]camcon.co.uk All opinions mine.
> You aimed very carefully at the balloon and fired.
> "Ouch" said Pooh. "Did I miss?" you asked. "You didn't
> exactly miss," said Pooh, "but you missed the balloon".
>
In not very great detail my *exciting* life runs
7:20 Alarm goes off -himself gets up, I hit the alarm
7:30,40,50 I hit the alarm.
8:00 Give up and crawl out of bed
8 - 8:50 Shower, Dress Eat etc. Watch the Big Breakfast
9 - 12:30 Work(Web design stuff), Drink coffee
12:30-1:30 Eat appalling sandwiches bought from vending machine
1:30-5:45 More Work
6:00 Get home - collapse on sofa, sort out post and bills etc
6:30-7pm Himself arrives home
Evening depends on the day but generally
Doing Guide stuff, cleaning, watching TV, Cross Stitch etc,shopping.
9pm Dinner - made by whoever can be bothered
11 -12 Beddie Byes.
Clare
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Before you buy.
fdrc
> So, (and also because I'm just nosy!), I'll ask: what happens in
> an average day for you?
Wake up early; write. Pet Mouserz who likes to curl up on my lap until
I'm done writing. Go back to bed with DH for a bit before I have to
get dressed and go to work.
Work -- depending on the week and what stage my books and the journal
are in, there may be more work and less procrastination involved, or
vice versa! I almost always leave for lunch, often to come home, have
a decent lunch, and play with my collage work. Sometimes go to the
library or run errands around town. If I don't get out of the building
for lunch (even if I just take a break with a friend in the lounge),
the rest of the afternoon drags tremendously for me.
After work -- read the mail, play with the cats, do yard work. If I
have a freelance job, I work on that for an hour or so. When DH calls
to let me know what time he'll be home, I may or may not start dinner
depending on whether my day has left me up to performing the task
without ruining it.
What we do after dinner depends on how tired we are and/or whether work
is busy. If DH has work and I don't, I either do more collage stuff or
watch TV if I'm feeling really lazy. If we're both free, we enjoy
going to bed early. Heh heh <g>.
Our weekends, on the other hand, are never routine. And I like it that
way.
Fiona
fdrc
>
> 8:45-9:30/10:00 read and return email; read news web sites and news
> wires and a.n. No one else in my office arrives before 11:00, so this
is
> my quality time with myself.
Yes, I get in earlier than the rest of my office as well. I like the
peace and quiet; if I'm having a busy week, I can get more done in the
first two hours of my day than my colleagues manage before they go off
to lunch!
cal...@my-deja.com
> So, (and also because I'm just nosy!), I'll ask: what happens
> in an average day for you?
This is a neat thread! Here's mine, with an attempt to include the
variation between school and non-school days.
5:15 Alarm goes off
5:20 Nudge DH to hit snooze button
5:29 Alarm goes off
5:34 Nudge DH to hit snooze button
5:43 Alarm goes off
you get the picture--this is DH's way of getting up!
6:30 DH gets up (BTW, it's really 6:00. The clock is 1/2 hr fast)
6:30 Real time, DH wakes me up and we go down stairs. He leaves and I
sit down on the couch to pet the cat.
6:35 I fall asleep on the couch.
7:00 Wake up, realize I'm late, and rush around to get ready.
7:40 Leave for work
8:00 Start work, read e-mail, catch up on newsgroups if there's time.
12:00 Eat lunch. Usually a frozen dinner in the lunch room with a text
book. Sounds fun, right! Sometimes I get distracted by the
newspaper and read that instead
5:00 Leave work (except for Thursday, when I leave for school at 4)
On our school days--Tues and Thurs:
5:40 and 4:40 Class, ending at 8:30 and 7:30, respectively.
8:00 or 9:00 Arrive home and cook dinner. Most school nights this
consists of veggie hot dogs or tuna fish sandwiches.
After Dinner Read classwork or veg out watching TV until bed time. In
the summer we tend to go to bed around 11:30. In winter,
it's around 10:30.
On non-school days when DH does not have to facilitate at a public
meeting--Mon., Wed., and Fri.:
5:30 Arrive home, read mail, eat a light snack
6:00 DH comes home and starts exercising (weights). I either ride my
exercise bike (ok, I try to, but it doesn't happen often), do some
classwork, read a book, watch TV, play on the computer, or start dinner.
7:30 or 8:00 Eat dinner and watch a little TV.
After Dinner Clean up, whine about school, avoid classwork, end up
doing in anyway.
10:30 to 11:30 Go to bed
Saturdays and Sundays are even more fun! We usually will spend
Saturday days at the library or at the computer writing papers.
Sundays, we have a committment to Cardinals football games. This means
that we either have to watch the games on TV or go to them at the
stadium down the street. I like the games, but they really put a wrench
in the schedule. Sunday is grocery, laundry, and ironing day. We don't
have a lot of free time to do suff like errands (hopefully the dry
cleaners won't have auctioned off the clothes I dropped of a week and a
half ago). But, at least DH and I are in school together and are taking
the same classes. We can be miserable together!
Jennifer
Vicky Larmour
Geri.Clark <ger...@earthlink.net> wrote:
>6:07 alarm goes off (really for DH, who needs to be up earlier than I
>do); on good days I get up and work out; on bad days I hit the snooze
>for him and stay in bed until 6:44
>
>6:44 get up while DH showers. I get my things ready for work and iron
>clothes, if needed
Oh LOL! This is just like my Dad, whose alarm goes off at 6:32
precisely. I asked him why not just 6:30, he said he doesn't need to get
up that early! He has his morning routine timed down to the last second
Vicky Larmour
>I just tried Tangleword. That's a fun game! It's hard!
It is hard, but it gets easier. I'm totally addicted now and play it
from home on weekends as well as every lunchtime at work. :-)
Vicky Larmour
>My "typical" day:
>
>5:30 a.m. Alarm goes off and bedroom light turns on. (It's on a timer.)
>Sometime thereafter, I hit the snooze button in my sleep.
>7:00 a.m. I wake enough to be conscious of the fact that I am hitting the
>snooze button.
>7:30 a.m. I get up and take a shower. Ken gets up shortly before or shortly
>after me, it varies. Do makeup, get dressed, dry hair. Ken is eating
>breakfast, reading the paper, and making lunches.
>8:30 a.m. Leave for work. Read or sleep on the bus.
Wow, I am really enjoying reading all these. I must be even nosier than
I first thought! :-)
But Holly, *why* do you have your alarm set for 5:30 when you don't need
to leave until 8:30??? If i was leaving at 8:30, my alarm would be set
for 8:00 or even 8:15!
Vicky Larmour
>One thing I noticed - a lot of people seem to read the newsgroup in
>the morning; I personally read it after work, while I'm waiting for FH
>to arrive home. Is this just me? :-) It's my "unwinding at the end of
>the work day" activity.
I need something to do while I wake up properly at work! Reading
newsgroups fits the bill nicely :-)
Vicky Larmour
>Phew! I'm not the only one! It's the first thing I do in the morning
>when I get out of bed - turn on NPR.
Dare I ask, what is NPR?
>And, my new thing I learned, how many
>people say "Pi-no-shay"? All of a sudden they started saying "Pino
>_chet*".... then they did a little tidbit on how they were finally
>corrected on the pronunciation.
? Over here I've only ever heard it pronounced peen-oh-shay with pretty
much the same emphasis on each syllable. How are you saying it should
be? pin-oh-CHET?
Susan Behr MacDuffee
On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Vicky Larmour wrote:
> Dare I ask, what is NPR?
National Public Radio
I haven't ever listened. Does anyone know how I can find out what local
station I can get it on?
--Susan
Jean Peters
Vicky Larmour wrote
> As I was wandering along to get some coffee earlier, I was thinking
> about the variety of jobs and hobbies that people on alt.newlywed have,
> and wondering how some of you actually spend your lives on a day-to-day
> basis. So, (and also because I'm just nosy!), I'll ask: what happens in
> an average day for you?
I was wondering something along the same lines the other day.
> For me:
>
> 8:45 - alarm goes off. Reset it for half-an-hour and go back to sleep.
> 9:15 - get up and ready for work (no breakfast.)
> 9:45 - leave for work, and arrive about 10. (Jonathan still asleep in
> bed at this point!)
I hate you :-).
Monday & Friday:
6.15 - alarm goes off. Get up between 6.15 and 6.30. Shower, breakfast
(at the very least, coffee!), dress, get books together.
7.15 - leave for car (Mark definitely still in bed asleep, though his
alarm(s) have started to go off).
7.25 - drive out gate to battle city commuter traffic.
8.00 - leave city traffic and head for the motorway, I drink a 0.5L bottle
of Diet Coke on the way)
8.50 - arrive at school, get coffee.
9.00 - 4.00 - teach. There are 9 periods, but as a student, I only teach 4
per day - I am expected to be on school premises when not teaching (I use
the time to plan for the next day and mark any homework/tests). Lunch is
1.00-2.00. At least 3 more coffees throughout the day.
4.00 - go to my mother's house (about 5 minutes drive from school). Have
more coffee :-), and chat with her while she cooks dinner.
5.30 - start drive home.
7.10 - get home, eat dinner (which hopefully Mark has cooked, if not cook
something quick and easy), watch TV, read newspaper, check email and
newsgroups.
11.00 - go to bed and fall asleep (assuming I haven't already done so on
the sofa).
Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday
7.00 - Mark's alarm starts to go off. He keeps hitting "snooze".
8.00 - My alarm goes off - we both get up
8.30 - If I'm ready, I give Mark a lift to work, otherwise he walks and I
leave around 9.00.
9.50 - I arrive at university.
10.00 - Lectures
1.00 - Lunch
2.00- 7.00 - More lectures ( I finish at 4.00 on Thursday - I use the extra
time to catch up on reading and lesson plans)
7.00 - Drive home.
7.45 - Get home and have dinner (Tuesdays I cook, because Mark has Tai Chi
until 7.30), watch TV, read newspaper, check email and newsgroups.
12.00 - go to bed and fall asleep
And that is my life atm. I drive, work, eat and sleep. I'm living on
coffee, diet Coke, chocolate and junk food - and somehow losing weight on
it! Hobbies - what are they? I'm hoping to start swimming on Thursdays,
since I finish early enough, and there's a free pool on campus.
Jean
Jean Peters
Susan Behr MacDuffee wrote
>
> On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Wende A. Feller wrote:
>
> > 7:30 Large white cat bullies two small black cats and a large gray one
> > off the bed. Yell "Peaceable Kingdom!" at cat bully. Cat bully looks
> > smug and unimpressed.
>
> Wende, as usual you provided me with a laugh on a dreary afternoon.
I'm not getting all of Wende's posts for some reason. Could someone repost
this (or, Wende, can you mail it to me)?? Knowing your sense of humour,
and based on this snippet, I *really* want to read it.
Jean
cjr
vicky....@camcon.co.nospam.uk (Vicky Larmour) wrote:
> In article <11f733ec...@usw-ex0101-005.remarq.com>,
> cjr <c...@my-deja.com> wrote:
> >Phew! I'm not the only one! It's the first thing I do in the
> morning
> >when I get out of bed - turn on NPR.
National Public Radio. It's sort of similar to the BBC, but not exactly.
Comparable to PBS - our public TV (Public Broadcasting System). The
local NPR stations are "listener supported" - they do pledge drives a
couple of times a year. I don't entirely understand how this all works,
but I gather that NPR itself is partially government funded and then
"sells" its show to the local affiliates. (Any one know how it works
exactly? We're in the middle of a pledge drive here so they've been
talking about how the funding works, but I haven't paid too much
attention) They have set programs that the local stations buy and
determine when to air - it's fairly consistent, but there's some
variation. For example, Karen said they get car talk on Sat at 4pm,
whereas here it's on at 10am after "Weekend Edition" and is followed by
"What do you know."
On New Year's night a couple of years ago they had a hilarious show
about Washington DC - it was basically a political roast....very funny!
> ? Over here I've only ever heard it pronounced peen-oh-shay with
> pretty
> much the same emphasis on each syllable. How are you saying it
> should
> be? pin-oh-CHET?
That's how I'd heard it (shay) even on NPR until recently. Then a week
ago or so they said "chet" and I was thinking "what the heck?!" So the
other day during the pledge drive they had this speil about
pronunciation and used that as an example "We used to say 'shay' but
now we know to say 'chet' " but they didn't explain anything more.
Susan Behr MacDuffee
On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Vicky Larmour wrote:
> In article <380f81ca....@news.erols.com>,
> rc...@my-deja.com (Rebecca) wrote:
>
> >One thing I noticed - a lot of people seem to read the newsgroup in
> >the morning; I personally read it after work, while I'm waiting for FH
> >to arrive home. Is this just me? :-) It's my "unwinding at the end of
> >the work day" activity.
>
> I need something to do while I wake up properly at work! Reading
> newsgroups fits the bill nicely :-)
I check it in the morning and periodically throughout the day while at
work. It seems I iam addicted now :)
--Susan
HLBerm
5:00 a.m. - DH's alarm goes off. I think, "Wouldn't it be nice to get up now,
spend some extra time with Mark, and not have to rush through my morning?" I
go back to sleep.
6:00 a.m. - Sometimes I get up and walk or take a bike ride. Sometimes I keep
right on sleeping.
6:30 a.m. - DH kisses me goodbye. If I'm still in bed, I finally manage to
drag myself out of bed.
6:30 a.m. - 7:45 - Shower, get dressed, eat breakfast (sometimes something
healthy, sometimes not), and check computer stuff if I have time. While all
this is going on, I'm listening to CDs, fairly loud (not loud enough to disturb
anyone, of course) - it helps me wake up.
7:45 a.m. - Leave for work, stopping to drop any mail in the box and to
complain to maintennance about whatever it is that's broken now (presently,
it's the shower).
8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. - Take my position as world's greatest nanny <g> On
Tuesdays and Thursdays I watch Henry, 3.5 and Mimi, 2. On Fridays I watch John
Michael and Peyton, both 2. They're all angels except occasionally for Henry.
Yesterday he spent the hour that he's home before naptime (he's at preschool
till noon) throwing things at me, and telling me how much he hates me.
Needless to say, he spent a lot of time in time-out ;-)
The day follows no set schedule but usually includes play-doh, finger paint,
bikes, swings, puzzles and blocks. At noon we eat (macaroni and cheese being
everyone's favorite), at 1 it's naptime. Yaaaay! Usually all the kids sleep
until their parents get home at 3. Sometimes I stretch out on the couch and
catch a quick snooze, lately I've been carrying a box of thank you notes with
me and doing those, usually I read a book or write something.
3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. - Head home for the day, doing any little errands (the
bank, gas etc.) on the way in. Decide what we're going to have for dinner
(unless I've already started it, which does occasionally happen) and cook,
usually while watching Oprah, sometimes to more music. I putter around on the
computer a bit so DH can take his time when he gets home. This is usually when
I do heavy newsgroup reading and emailing.
6:00 p.m. - Welcome home DH and listen to him rant about how poorly everyone's
been treating by the company. Talk about other job options. This has gone on
for a while, but has recently gotten more serious.
6:00 - 10:00 p.m. - Eat, talk about our days, email, read message boards and
newsgroups, DH messes around with his fantasy football teams, watch TV
depending on what night it is (Mondays and Thursdays being our big TV nights),
and just generally try to unwind and relax.
10:00 p.m. We pull out our Bibles and have a brief devotion and serious prayer
time, praying for our families, friends, and each other... and anything else
that comes up. (I think it goes without saying that this is not meant to
offend anyone here on a.n with different religious beliefs... this is just an
important part of our day).
10:30 to 10:45 p.m. - Head to bed. Sometimes we chat for a while, sometimes we
both just conk right out. Get up and do it again.
On Mondays I only work from 9 to 12 so I use that day to do big chores -
laundry, cleaning, vaccuming, etc.
I work in the nursery at our church Wednesday nights so I take the day off
(it's good for my sanity). Wednesdays are my days, and I spend big blocks of
uninterrupted time trying to get my long dreamt of writing career off the
ground. I do write here and there during the rest of the week, but this is My
Day.
-Heather B.
cjr
<Pine.SV4.4.10.991022...@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu>, Susan
> I haven't ever listened. Does anyone know how I can find out what
> local
> station I can get it on?
> --Susan
Go to this site, you should be able to find a local station (they're
usually around 88/90/95 FM - at least IME).
http://ftp.npr.org/members/index.html
I'm such an NPR junkie :-)
Susan Behr MacDuffee
> And that is my life atm. I drive, work, eat and sleep. I'm living on
> coffee, diet Coke, chocolate and junk food - and somehow losing weight on
> it! Hobbies - what are they? I'm hoping to start swimming on Thursdays,
> since I finish early enough, and there's a free pool on campus.
Jean,
How are you losing weight eating junk food? I need to know your diet :)
I have never been (nor could I ever be on a diet--I like to eat too much).
I have gained about 20 pounds since I got married though (and it's only
been a year--yikes). I guess it doesn't show so much on my frame, because
I am fairly tall, but still I would like to shed some pounds. Exercise is
the key I guess. I have access to a campus pool that is free as well,
unfortunately it closing before I get off of work. Now that the weather
is starting to cool off here DH and I will start cycling again. I envy
people like Vicky that can cycle to work. I live 10 miles from work.
--Susan
Susan Behr MacDuffee
On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, cjr wrote:
> Go to this site, you should be able to find a local station (they're
> usually around 88/90/95 FM - at least IME).
>
> http://ftp.npr.org/members/index.html
Thanks Cherise, I knew that I could count on you.
--Susan
Vicky Larmour
Susan Behr MacDuffee <sb...@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu> wrote:
>How are you losing weight eating junk food? I need to know your diet :)
Me too...
>I have never been (nor could I ever be on a diet--I like to eat too much).
Me too!
>I have gained about 20 pounds since I got married though (and it's only
>been a year--yikes). I guess it doesn't show so much on my frame, because
>I am fairly tall, but still I would like to shed some pounds.
Me too!!! (Susan... have you been reading my thoughts again? This has
*got* to stop, you know!) Actually I've gained about 35 pounds since
getting married, but I've been married 18 months longer than you :-)
>Exercise is
>the key I guess. I have access to a campus pool that is free as well,
>unfortunately it closing before I get off of work. Now that the weather
>is starting to cool off here DH and I will start cycling again. I envy
>people like Vicky that can cycle to work. I live 10 miles from work.
I have to confess I've only cycled to work *once* this week. There's
been a good reason every other day why I've needed the car, but I've
only managed to work out at home (aerobics video) once :-(
One possibility might be for you to drive part of the way, drop off the
car, and cycle the last couple of miles. This depends on being able to
find a location where you're happy to leave your car during the day, and
your bike overnight; but it could work?
Anyway, I definitely agree - exercise is the key. I really should do
more of it!
Vicky (who just ate a huge Thai curry for lunch and then printed out
that nice chocolate cookie recipe that someone posted a link to
earlier... and drove in to work today)
Susan Behr MacDuffee
On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Vicky Larmour wrote:
> Me too!!! (Susan... have you been reading my thoughts again? This has
> *got* to stop, you know!) Actually I've gained about 35 pounds since
> getting married, but I've been married 18 months longer than you :-)
LOL! No, but I did see a guy who looked a lot like your DH yesteday and I
thought of you immediately :)
> I have to confess I've only cycled to work *once* this week. There's
> been a good reason every other day why I've needed the car, but I've
> only managed to work out at home (aerobics video) once :-(
I have an aerobics video too, unfortunately I never work out to it. It is
completely boring. My sister recently bought the taebo videos and those
are kind of fun. We had meant to be doing them at least twice a week, but
it never seems to work out. We are both busy.
> One possibility might be for you to drive part of the way, drop off the
> car, and cycle the last couple of miles. This depends on being able to
> find a location where you're happy to leave your car during the day, and
> your bike overnight; but it could work?
This is a thought. Although, I can't think of a place that the bike would
be safe overnight. DH and I have been discussing putting the bikes in his
pickup truck and taking them to a bike trail out west of us. It's a 10
mile trail. We have one nearer to the house which is only 6. This
weekend will be perfect too--forecasted weather says that we will be in
the mid 70s--yippee!!
--Susan
Robin
>
> On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Vicky Larmour wrote:
>
>
> National Public Radio
>
> I haven't ever listened. Does anyone know how I can find out what local
> station I can get it on?
Even though I enjoy it, I never think to listen--even when "my" station
is pissing me off my running nothing but political ads (I swear, I'm not
voting for *any* of them!) I think it's usually low on the dial,
somewhere in the 80s. It's also online, I've listened to it on realaudio
(which crashes my OS, but that's just a minor detail.) I'm offline now
'cause I need the phone free, but try going to www.npr.org (or something
logical like that) and I'm sure you can find it.
--
There's no need to e-mail me a copy of a follow-up; but if you do,
please identify it as such.
Robin
> 11:30 - lunch! Eat free lunch in company canteen if I'm feeling
> sociable, or bring it back to my desk and eat it here if not. Either
> way, play some Tangleword (word game on www.playsite.com). E-mails from
> Jonathan start arriving around now, so he's obviously got up and gone to
> work.
Oh, this is my other online weakness (besides newsgroups, of course!)
card games. I play at excite, mostly hearts, occasionally spades.
Anybody here play Spades? I like it, but don't like being partners with
someone I don't know at all. Yesterday was strange though... some guy
that I was playing with apparently got mad that he was losing, and
accused me and another guy of cheating! His "solution" was to just stop
playing and halt the game, which pissed off everyone, including the non-
suspected cheater. I was absolutely flabbergasted... in addition to
being really offended at the accusation, I wouldn't have known how to
cheat if I'd wanted to! The really ridiculous part is that if he'd
played out the hand, he would have seen the rest of my cards, and seen
that I just had a bizarre hand. Whatever.
Robin
Grump, grump, me neither! I've seen a couple of Wende's posts, so I
don't think it's her specifically, just my really crappy news server
which claims to be one of the best in the country. Hmph.
Robin
> 5:00ish Leave for home. Stop at either grocery store, Home Depot, Wal-Mart,
> Ross or other retail establishment 2x per week to pick up or return something.
"Wal-Mart, my second home!" I'm grocery store-homeless these days, since
my absolute favorite (Harris Teeter, curses to all of you who have them)
closed. There's a family run store that I like and try to patronize,
Wades, but their selection and prices aren't as good as Wal-Mart. And
then Kroger (which I *hate*!) will tempt me with triple coupons or super
double coupons. Me? Too much time on my hands? Anyhow, I'm now taking
a class tues & thurs which has me driving past Wal-Mart twice a week
(it's out of the way otherwise) this could be dangerous...
> 6:00 p.m. Get home. Eat something smallish, read the paper, get the mail
> (hey, Robin - I *love* mail time, too!), let the cats out to the garden to
> roll, eat another smallish item. I will make dinner for Mark maybe once a week
> now.
Do you get depressed if there's nothing "good"? Even bills count as
"good", because I "get" (anal? me?) to put them into Quicken and get
things organized.
> 12:00 a.m. Get up to pee. Kick cat who likes to weave by my feet (black cat
> in a dark room - not wise but I think she likes it).
>
> 2:00 a.m. Get up to pee. Come back to cat in my warm spot.
Uh, well... I'm not pregnant, but I do this part too! Okay, usually not
twice, but a ridiculous amount for a decidedly non-pregnant person.
Apparently the wee hours of the morning are the *best* time to plead for
attention, if you're a cat. I was up all last night dispatching not one,
but two, searches, and Fiji's never been happier.
Robin
> > One thing I noticed - a lot of people seem to read the newsgroup in
> > the morning; I personally read it after work, while I'm waiting
> > for FH
> > to arrive home. Is this just me? :-) It's my "unwinding at the
> > end of
> > the work day" activity.
I started reading newsgroups in the morning because the paper comes late
(although I live in SWVA, I get the Washington Post, since that's what I
grew up with. Carting it down here from the nearest printing press takes
a while.) and I needed *something* to read in the morning! Now I also
subscribe to the Roanoke Times (needed help with the job hunt--somehow
reading the paper is easier than searching their web site--and was
feeling guilty that I don't keep up with where I live!) which, this
morning at least, comes at 4. However, I've already fallen heavily into
the habit of reading the ngs in the morning, so here I am! Since I work
from home, I don't have a "I'm home, need to rewind" sort of feeling, so
it works well for now.
> I would if I had a computer at home. It'd be a good night-time activity
> now that DF is away. I can only access it inthe lab, though, and I've
> gotten in the habit of checking it peridically throughout the day (not
> a good habit).
<sniff> Addict! (Hey... what's that about the pot calling the kettle
black?) Ok, I admit, I do this too. Couple of hours of real work, and
then "well, I need to see if anyone responded to that really interesting
thread..." and all of a sudden I'm doomed again.
Susan Behr MacDuffee
On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Robin wrote:
> Oh, this is my other online weakness (besides newsgroups, of course!)
> card games. I play at excite, mostly hearts, occasionally spades.
> Anybody here play Spades?
I used to play Spades with my RL friends of long ago. I miss it. I think
I would need a refresher course to play again though. It's been too many
years since I have played. I am slightly addicted (but not too much
lately) to online Jeopardy!
Incidentally, since you mentioned Hearts Robin, are any of you reading the
new Stephen King book _Hearts in Atlantis_? It is pretty good and part of
it is dealing with a group of college guys who are addicted to playing
Hearts.
--Susan
Susan Behr MacDuffee
On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Robin wrote:
> is pissing me off my running nothing but political ads (I swear, I'm not
> voting for *any* of them!) I think it's usually low on the dial,
> somewhere in the 80s. It's also online, I've listened to it on realaudio
> (which crashes my OS, but that's just a minor detail.) I'm offline now
> 'cause I need the phone free, but try going to www.npr.org (or something
> logical like that) and I'm sure you can find it.
Cherise already gave me the website address. Thanks Cherise, I found what
I needed to know. I also felt a bit foolish since one of the local radio
stations that carries it is the campus station and I work at the
university. Doh!!!
--Susan
Peggy Galbraith
>
> In article <0a0133f8...@usw-ex0102-012.remarq.com>, Sarah J
> <sarahaj...@my-deja.com.invalid> wrote:
> > 8:30-10ish Read email and newsgroups, listen to Morning Edition on
> > NPR, eat granola bars for breakfast, sometimes finish last minute
> > schoolwork
>
> Ok, I'm going to be *really* geeky here, but for those of you who are
> NPR listeners, do you feel like there's something missing from your day
> if you don't listen to it? After awhile, I feel like I know the
> commentators.
I definitely agree. I only listen to the "talk" part of NPR,
though...Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Car Talk, What Do You
Know, etc. I listen in the car both ways commuting, and all weekend. We
have another "listener supported radio" station in the area, which has
better music programming. It's straight up classical, and they tend to
play lots of the big hits (Beethoven, Bach, tons of Mozart) which I
prefer over opera or other instrumental music. I thought NPR was the
only one who did the whole pledge drive type thing, but this other
channel does, as well. They also have the BBC news, which I like.
When NPR is playing music during the day, I either listen to AM talk radio
(Dr. Joy or Bruce Williams or whatever) or the other classical station or
oldies. The only music show I really like on NPR is Back Porch Music, which
is on weekend evenings, which is country/folk. There's also some Gaelic
music show (something and Thistle) which I keep meaning to tune in for,
but always miss.
peggy
Robin
cited author.]
On Fri, 22 Oct 1999 11:12:10 -0400, Susan Behr MacDuffee wrote...
>
> On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Robin wrote:
>
> > Oh, this is my other online weakness (besides newsgroups, of course!)
> > card games. I play at excite, mostly hearts, occasionally spades.
> > Anybody here play Spades?
>
> I used to play Spades with my RL friends of long ago. I miss it. I think
> I would need a refresher course to play again though. It's been too many
> years since I have played. I am slightly addicted (but not too much
> lately) to online Jeopardy!
Cool! We'll have to find a time to play. I have a little trouble
switching between spades and hearts, since they're so similar but so
different, but we could play a couple of unrated games with computer
opponents to refresh ourselves.
> Incidentally, since you mentioned Hearts Robin, are any of you reading the
> new Stephen King book _Hearts in Atlantis_? It is pretty good and part of
> it is dealing with a group of college guys who are addicted to playing
> Hearts.
Haven't heard of it, but I'm a big King fan. I'll have to keep an eye
out for it.
RNR
<rob...@SoftHome.net> wrote:
> <sniff> Addict! (Hey... what's that about the pot calling the kettle
> black?) Ok, I admit, I do this too. Couple of hours of real work, and
> then "well, I need to see if anyone responded to that really interesting
> thread..." and all of a sudden I'm doomed again.
Oh, I do that too. I then go and work feverishly to assuage my guilt
for being on so much.
Regards,
Ranee
Microsoft is preparing for the next millenium with a new
version of Windows called Windows 2000. The target for
release is first quarter, 1901
RNR
vicky....@camcon.co.nospam.uk (Vicky Larmour) wrote:
> As I was wandering along to get some coffee earlier, I was thinking
> about the variety of jobs and hobbies that people on alt.newlywed have,
> and wondering how some of you actually spend your lives on a day-to-day
> basis. So, (and also because I'm just nosy!), I'll ask: what happens in
> an average day for you?
Well, lately I haven't really had a set schedule, but...
7:30/8:00 wake up and get Alexander to feed him.
8:30 Shower
9:00 Make Rich's lunch while Rich makes breakfast, eat.
9:00-10:30 Make business calls, balance checkbook, pay bills.
10:30-12:00 Newsgroups/Play with Alexander
12:00 Feed Alexander
12:30 Feed me
1:00-3:00 Clean up while watching/listening to television. Alexander
naps somewhere in this time.
3:00 Putz around a bit on the computer while thinking up what to make
for dinner.
4:00-6:00 Get serious and work on dinner for us. Clean up in kitchen.
6:30 Feed Alexander, maybe us, too.
7:30 Alexander ready for bed, feed and change.
8:00 Bedtime for Alexander, dinnertime for us.
8:00-10:00 Maybe television, maybe not, time for us to talk and catch up.
10:00 Get ready for bed.
10:30 Bedtime for us.
Sprinkled throughout this are various tidying endeavors and changings
of Alexander and snacks and juice for him.
cjr
> Geri.Clark wrote:
> >
> > 8:45-9:30/10:00 read and return email; read news web sites and
> news
> > wires and a.n. No one else in my office arrives before 11:00, so
> this
> is
> > my quality time with myself.
> Yes, I get in earlier than the rest of my office as well. I like
> the
> peace and quiet; if I'm having a busy week, I can get more done in
> the
> first two hours of my day than my colleagues manage before they go
> off
> to lunch!
> Fiona
That's my favourite part of the day. In my old lab, it was easy to be
in by myself for a couple of hours, as most people wandered in sometime
between 9:30-10am. Here, though, most people start showing up around 8
or 8:30 -so if I want time to myself I have to get in by 6 or so!
(Which actually happens quite often these days due to my inability top
sleep past 4am) However, while those used to be the most productive
hours of the day, I find I end up spending time on email/ngs then kick
myself for wasting an hour so early (it's not like I could sleep any
longer though). I have to get myself back on track to starting my
projects as soon as I get in before I start checking email and ngs.
RNR
<rob...@SoftHome.net> wrote:
> On 22 Oct 1999 04:36:26 GMT, Gainesmk wrote...
> > 5:00ish Leave for home. Stop at either grocery store, Home Depot,
Wal-Mart,
> > Ross or other retail establishment 2x per week to pick up or return
something.
>
> "Wal-Mart, my second home!" I'm grocery store-homeless these days, since
> my absolute favorite (Harris Teeter, curses to all of you who have them)
> closed. There's a family run store that I like and try to patronize,
> Wades, but their selection and prices aren't as good as Wal-Mart. And
> then Kroger (which I *hate*!) will tempt me with triple coupons or super
> double coupons. Me? Too much time on my hands? Anyhow, I'm now taking
> a class tues & thurs which has me driving past Wal-Mart twice a week
> (it's out of the way otherwise) this could be dangerous...
I believe that Wal-Mart is the Whore of Babylon and I refuse to shop
there. I will not subsidize horrible service and the edging out of local
companies. So if I have to shop a chain, I go to KMart. I try to go to
the little local shops though. It's much easier to do that here, where
there just aren't that many chains on the peninsula.
RNR
Susan Behr MacDuffee <sb...@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu> wrote:
> How are you losing weight eating junk food? I need to know your diet :)
Probably stress, that's how I am too.
> I have gained about 20 pounds since I got married though (and it's only
> been a year--yikes).
We both immediately gained about 15-20 pounds when we got married. The
real wedding ring goes around your waist, you know. I lost it all, then
got pregnant and lost more from being sick. Had the baby and was
immediately pre-pregnancy weight. When I stopped nursing, I gained it all
back and now I weigh only 3 pounds less than I did when I was full term.
Very depressing. I'm trying to exercise more by walking around and such.
RNR
vicky....@camcon.co.nospam.uk (Vicky Larmour) wrote:
> I have to confess I've only cycled to work *once* this week. There's
> been a good reason every other day why I've needed the car, but I've
> only managed to work out at home (aerobics video) once :-(
I don't exercise on purpose. If i am doing something that I enjoy that
happends to be exercise, then I will. SO I walk and go dancing, but I
don't do aerobics or step classes or "working out" or anything like that.
RNR
<rob...@SoftHome.net> wrote:
> 3:00 - Does the dance of joy because the mail has come. On days when
> there is no mail, checks the mailbox every hour until she finally
> remembers this. Yes, checking the mail does seem to be the highlight of
> my day. Any questions as to why I'm looking for a new job?
Even when I WOH, I was still overjoyed by the mail. Rich stopped
cheching it, just to give me my thrill for the day. I was always so sad
when there was nothing.
cjr
<Pine.SOL.3.91.991022...@godzilla6.acpub.duke.edu>,
That's "The Shamrock and Thistle" I think. I haven't heard it either -
as you say, keep meaning to, but happen not to be near a radio at the
right time. During the weekdays, here though, our local station doesn't
play *any* music - it's just talk shows, some of which I like, but I
miss the classical (which WSHU in CT played in the afternoons). We get
Talk of the Nation and Science Fridays which I like. Fresh Air I like
sometimes, and then there's the Diane Reims show which I sometimes like
but often find myself turning off (I like the show's guests, but her
voice gets to me). Oh, another one I miss now is Echoes with John
Deliberto (have to say that in a deep soothing voice :-)). We used to
listen to that on Sunday nights in CT - just before wathching Nature on
PBS. It used to be on here early Sunday mornings, and we'd always miss
it. Now I haven't heard it on at all.
btw - did you know that when you call in during a pledge drive, you're
then on record as a "listener" to that particular show? This is at
least true with PBS. I happened to be flipping channels one night and
noticed PBS was doing a pledge drive. Since I'd been planning to call
anyway, this reminded me. BUt it happened to be during the John Tesh
special. So there on after whenever they'd said me things, it'd somehow
be related to that type of show, and I was listed as contributing
during the John Tesh show, which DF made endless fun of :-).
C>
Liz
fdrc <f...@my-deja.com> wrote in message news:7uptqa$79$1...@nnrp1.deja.com...
>
> > So, (and also because I'm just nosy!), I'll ask: what happens in
> > an average day for you?
>
7am. Alarm goes off. Jim hits snooze and comes in for a last cuddle.
7:07 Alarm goes off. Jim climbs out of bed, I roll over for a last nap
7:40 Jim comes in with coffee and shoes. I gulp coffee, put on shoes,
stagger to car and take him to train
7:50 Come home, have another cup of coffee. Look at front page of paper.
Wake up.
8:15 Shower, dress, etc.
9:00 Start dishwasher from last night. Leave for work Check voicemail on the
way. Return any calls.
10am - Arrive at work. Head immediately to first meeting, after checking to
see if voicemail light is on, and if there are any fun emails.
11:30 - Check newsgroup. Read all messages immediately. Think about which
ones to post replies to. Read email.
Noon-ish. Think about which box to nuke for lunch.
1pm - 6pm. Work. Go to meetings, answer emails, write, bury head in system
documentation, teach. Whatever. Play a game - Try to guess before answering
phone if it's going to be a dumb question or a smart question. Decide I need
a new game. I keep winning.
6pm. Decide I've had enough and leave. Depending on day of week, go to gym,
go to grocery store, or to therapist.
7:30ish - Pick Jim up from train.
7:45pm. Get home. Think about making healthy nutritious dinner for Jim and
me. Collapse on couch with glass of wine and the day's catalogs (I love to
shop vicariously). Decide I'm not hungry.
9pm. Jim comes up from the basement, declares he's starving. He makes giant
pot of something yummy.
10pm I change my mind, decide I am hungry and eat too much.
11pm. Fall asleep on couch.
On Friday - we don't go home. We *always* seem to be going away for the
weekend...in the summer it's boating/fishing/sailing, in the winter it's
skiing or visiting.
Liz
Susan Behr MacDuffee
On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, RNR wrote:
> Probably stress, that's how I am too.
Yes, this is so true. I had lost a few pounds before we got married. I
was stressed about every wedding detail when I didn't need to be. I was
even having trouble sleeping at night for worrying over the wedding
preparations and keeping up with my school work.
> We both immediately gained about 15-20 pounds when we got married. The
> real wedding ring goes around your waist, you know. I lost it all, then
> got pregnant and lost more from being sick. Had the baby and was
> immediately pre-pregnancy weight. When I stopped nursing, I gained it all
> back and now I weigh only 3 pounds less than I did when I was full term.
> Very depressing. I'm trying to exercise more by walking around and such.
It can be depressing yes. I recently got rid of all my "skinny" clothes
and it seems to have helped my self-esteem. Now in the mornings when I am
choosing what to wear for the day everything fits :) I have bought some
new clothes to replace the old ones. I just don't think I will ever be
thin enough to wear those older clothes. I have saved the "skinny" jeans
that I wore on my first date with DH though. I guess I am a bit
sentimental.
--Susan
Jan A. Cordes
I was sort of just skimming these messages without really reading
word for word or making note of who they were from and when I got
to the bottom of yours I said to myself "this must be Holly". I
went back and reread the message in full. I thought I was the only
one who hit the snooze button for two hours and had a light on a
timer to be able to get up in the morning. Although I am having
a bit of deja vu as to discussing this once before. I don't
currently use the light on the timer. I'm not sure how it would
go over with DH. And, even though I'm not working I am setting
the alarm and hitting the snooze button for 2 hours. I've just
shifted the times later.
Jan
HollyLewis <holly...@aol.com> wrote:
: My "typical" day:
: 5:30 a.m. Alarm goes off and bedroom light turns on. (It's on a timer.)
: Sometime thereafter, I hit the snooze button in my sleep.
: 7:00 a.m. I wake enough to be conscious of the fact that I am hitting the
: snooze button.
: 7:30 a.m. I get up and take a shower. Ken gets up shortly before or shortly
: after me, it varies. Do makeup, get dressed, dry hair. Ken is eating
: breakfast, reading the paper, and making lunches.
: 8:30 a.m. Leave for work. Read or sleep on the bus.
: 9:30 a.m. Arrive at work, get coffee and eat Pop Tarts for breakfast (I keep
: them in my desk drawer). Do some actual work. (I'm a paralegal and office
: manager. I write and edit letters, contracts, and court filings, make phone
: calls, organize evidence and prepare various sorts of exhibits, meet with
: clients, generate bills, supervise the file clerk, deal with our computer
: consultant, ride herd on my brilliant but scatterbrained boss.)
: 1:00ish, depending how busy I am. Eat the lunch Ken made at my desk. Read
: a.n. Monthly, pay bills and do online bank account transfers. Deal with other
: "personal business" calls or letters. Get back to work.
: 6:10 p.m. (usually) Leave office. Read on bus home. Possible stop at hardware
: store between train station and home.
: 7:00 to 7:30ish. Get home, read mail and newspaper, have a glass of milk. Ken
: gets home about the same time. Occasionally fix something for and/or eat
: dinner. All of this doesn't apply on Mondays, when I've gone straight from
: work to chorus rehearsal, which is 7:30 to 9:45.
: 8:30ish. Change clothes and strip or paint window frames, install shelves or
: drapery rods, unpack and organize office stuff or books, or some other work on
: the house. Maybe run a load of laundry. Except Mondays.
: 10:30 or so. Begin to think about going to bed when I've finished whatever I'm
: working on. Maybe have a snack. Maybe think about making a phone call, and
: realize it's too late at night to call anyone. (On Mondays, get home from
: rehearsal, read mail, definitely have a snack.)
: 11:00 or so. Really think about going to bed. Maybe read the newspaper, if I
: haven't yet.
: 11:30 Change into nightshirt, wash face, brush teeth, etc. Ken usually is in
: bed reading by this time.
: 12:00 Get into bed. Ken puts book down and falls asleep instantly.
: Sometime between 1:00 and 3:00 a.m. Fall asleep.
: Yes, I am a sleep deprived night owl who hits the snooze button for TWO HOURS.
: No, I never exercise (other than walking between the transit station and the
: office, and working on the house). And yes, I really and truly hardly ever
: watch television.
: Before we bought the house, the evening activity might be reading or cross
: stitch or working on chorus music, sometimes going out to dinner with friends
: or just the two of us, walking up to the bookstore, or, at the relevant times,
: wedding planning stuff, vacation planning stuff, other projects like that;
: before my office moved (and my mode of commute travel was a lot more
: convenient), I often stayed late at the office to read newsgroups or play Myst
: or do other stuff on my computer, and I often went shopping for clothes or
: gifts in San Francisco after work. We used to eat something that qualified as
: an actual dinner a little more often.
: Yes, I am obsessed with my house. If we ever finish painting I'll invite y'all
: over. :-)
: Holly
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HollyLewis
>to leave until 8:30??? If i was leaving at 8:30, my alarm would be set
>for 8:00 or even 8:15!
I told you, I hit the snooze button *in my sleep*. The alarm does not
penetrate to my conscious mind for an hour to an hour and a half.
So if my alarm did not buzz until 8:00, I would sleep until 9:30, get up at
10:00 and leave the house until 11:00.
And I can't shower and dress in 15 minutes. A long shower is an important part
of the process of waking up. :-)
Holly
HollyLewis
>
>I haven't ever listened. Does anyone know how I can find out what local
>station I can get it on?
Check the entertainment section of your Sunday paper. Often they list radio
stations (call letters, frequency, one-word description of program format).
Any public radio station will generally carry some NPR programming.
I *hate* talk shows, actually, so I don't listed to much public radio. But DH
loves it so I'm generally familiar with some of the stuff that's on -- not that
I could tell you which shows are NPR and which are locally produced. I do like
the Irish/Scottish music show -- partly because I like the music, and partly
because I *love* the host's accent!
Holly
HollyLewis
>there. I will not subsidize horrible service and the edging out of local
>companies. So if I have to shop a chain, I go to KMart.
LOL! In these parts, you'd go to Target. KMart is the evil anti-union
company. :-)
We don't really have Wal-Mart. There are a few on the outskirts of the Bay
Area but they haven't really penetrated to the central East Bay or San
Francisco.
I also prefer local stores, of course, and I do get prescriptions filled at a
neighborhood pharmacy. But when it comes to stuff like shampoo, the price
differential is huge. And there just isn't anyplace other than Target with the
same mix of products. And, often most importantly, Target is open late at
night -- and I can't go to neighborhood drugstores, furniture/housewares
stores, clothing stores, newsstands, etc. during the day since I'm at work in a
different city.
I'm really only a local-store hardliner when it comes to books. I refuse to
buy books in either Barnes & Noble or Target (don't buy 'em online either); I
go to one of the great many wonderful independents in my area.
Holly
RNR
Susan Behr MacDuffee <sb...@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu> wrote:
> > We both immediately gained about 15-20 pounds when we got married. The
> > real wedding ring goes around your waist, you know. I lost it all, then
> > got pregnant and lost more from being sick. Had the baby and was
> > immediately pre-pregnancy weight. When I stopped nursing, I gained it all
> > back and now I weigh only 3 pounds less than I did when I was full term.
> > Very depressing. I'm trying to exercise more by walking around and such.
>
> It can be depressing yes. I recently got rid of all my "skinny" clothes
> and it seems to have helped my self-esteem. Now in the mornings when I am
> choosing what to wear for the day everything fits :) I have bought some
> new clothes to replace the old ones. I just don't think I will ever be
> thin enough to wear those older clothes. I have saved the "skinny" jeans
> that I wore on my first date with DH though. I guess I am a bit
> sentimental.
Well, we are already a little more active here, so I have hopes of
losing some of the fat. Or I could just start nursing again, and have the
baby liposuction. Besides that, we can't afford much in the way of new
clothes just yet, so I need to get maybe another pair of pants and just
try to lose the rest.
RNR
holly...@aol.com (HollyLewis) wrote:
> >there. I will not subsidize horrible service and the edging out of local
> >companies. So if I have to shop a chain, I go to KMart.
>
> LOL! In these parts, you'd go to Target. KMart is the evil anti-union
> company. :-)
Well, I like Target better, so maybe that's a good thing.
Wende A. Feller
>
> In article <11f733ec...@usw-ex0101-005.remarq.com>,
> cjr <c...@my-deja.com> wrote:
> >Phew! I'm not the only one! It's the first thing I do in the morning
> >when I get out of bed - turn on NPR.
>
> Dare I ask, what is NPR?
National Public Radio -- news, interviews, and such. Our local station
also runs BBC World Service during the dark hours of the night. Hubby is
addicted to it, thus the headphones to keep him in contact with the
mother ship while he putters around in the morning. Not my cup of tea,
although I guess once hubby and I share office space, I will get about
six hours of it a day. Maybe I *should* lobby for premium cable service
so I can retaliate with HGTV! (House and Garden Television, for
decorating and remodeling buffs.)
Wende
HollyLewis
>currently use the light on the timer. I'm not sure how it would
>go over with DH.
Couldn't you put the timer on, like, a bedside reading lamp on your side of the
bed? That wouldn't affect Drew as much as having it on the overhead room
light.
Though I suppose, since you're not working and can get up later, you can just
have Drew turn the light on when he gets up.
BTW, how's the job hunt? ;-)
Holly
Rebecca
>That sounds a little more like my schedule, except I usually go into
>work by 8 usually (I don't work right away tho - the day starts with
>coffee and email and newsgroups). I've had to make a time allotment for
>aerobics class, but nothing else ever follows a set time frame so I
>just make a list of what I need to get done during the day, try to make
>it all practical, then hope I can get it all done and still be home at
>a reasonable hour. Of course, if every experiment worked the first time
>this would never be a problem! :-)
Somewhere between waking up and going to work is the alotted time for
use of exercise bike and dumbells and doing sit-ups and push-ups! :-)
I'd bike (instead of walk) to work if I could carry the bike up and
down all the flights of stairs. Next apartment - must have elevator..
--
Rebecca <rc...@my-deja.com>
Rebecca
<cjrNO...@my-deja.com.invalid> wrote:
>I like my local IN PR station in the evenings though - they play "the
>blues" - it's great music to listen to while working, tho I suspect our
>cleaning lady thinks I'm weird dancing around while setting up an
>experiment!
LOL! I do this too - well, not experiments, but I'll write a huge
program to analyze the data, and while the program is running, I'll
put on music and dance around :-) But nobody sees me b/c the cleaning
people come in 6am-ish
Actually our office is known for having something being broadcasted at
all times - whether this be the radio or a soccer game!
--
Rebecca <rc...@my-deja.com>
Rebecca
>Oh, this is my other online weakness (besides newsgroups, of course!)
>card games. I play at excite, mostly hearts, occasionally spades.
>Anybody here play Spades? I like it, but don't like being partners with
>someone I don't know at all.
The other day I walked into work to find one of my officemates playing
backgammon online. Instead of getting to work, I promptly sat down
with him so he could teach me how the game works :-)
--
Rebecca <rc...@my-deja.com>
Rebecca
>Even though I enjoy it, I never think to listen--even when "my" station
>is pissing me off my running nothing but political ads (I swear, I'm not
>voting for *any* of them!)
The radio goes off when I hear mention of politics :-)
--
Rebecca <rc...@my-deja.com>
Robin
I'm jealous =)
Our study, which I work from and spend 90% of our waking hours, doesn't
have a clicker for the radio. Eric has a rather old, but extremely good,
tuner, and that's what's in here. We do have a clicker for the CD
changer, but I can't switch from the radio to a CD w/o getting up. I
really ought to just load the changer up with more CDs, and ignore the
radio until elections are over.
Jan A. Cordes
:>I don't currently use the light on the timer. I'm not sure how it would
:>go over with DH.
: Couldn't you put the timer on, like, a bedside reading lamp on your side
: of the bed? That wouldn't affect Drew as much as having it on the overhead
: room light.
He actually gets up extremely early compared to me during the week. The
light really wouldn't affect him accept if I forgot to turn it off for
weekends.
Our problem is limited electrical outlets on my side of the room. I'm
on the closet side of the bed and we're already stretching an extension
cord to get my two clocks (yes, I use three alarms to get up; 1 snoozer,
1 radio and one obnoxious noise that's also part of the radio). I need
to invest in a power strip with a long cord.
: Though I suppose, since you're not working and can get up later, you can just
: have Drew turn the light on when he gets up.
Sheesh, by the time I get up these days the sun is shining bright enough
that a light isn't necessary.
: BTW, how's the job hunt? ;-)
I'm just starting to get serious about it. I think the resume is starting
to look about right. There's a big job fair at Westech Monday and Tuesday.
My purple outfit (3 piece long blouse which can be worn with either the
skirt or pants) is in the cleaner.
Oddly enough, I just found out last night that someone I've been socializing
with off and on for a few months is a technical recruiter. She just found
out that I'm out of work. Needless to say we nearly jumped on one another
trying to exchange info. She's got a 2 week contract job on a Northern
Telecom system that pays somewhere between $35 and $38 per hour. Not too
shabby even if it is a short contract job and not permanent with benefits.
Jan
qw...@my-deja.com
vicky....@camcon.co.nospam.uk (Vicky Larmour) wrote:
> As I was wandering along to get some coffee earlier, I was thinking
> about the variety of jobs and hobbies that people on alt.newlywed
have,
> and wondering how some of you actually spend your lives on a day-to-
day
in
> an average day for you?
OH, OH, mine is not boring! *jumps up and down*
Really, I can't tell you about my "routines" 'cause there aren't any.
Sometimes I get to work at 11am, sometimes noon, sometimes 4pm. And
sometimes I work till 3am or midnight or what not. Sometimes I stay at
work for 36 hours straight if I really need or want to get something
done ASAP. I do go to 2 meetings per week so I am usually there for
those 2 meetings (I am actually supposed to go to 3 but the 3rd one is
too early for me). So I only spent 2 hours per week in meetings on
average but sometimes there are others that are not recurrent. Other
than I just write code most of the time. I read lots of emails of
course - that's the primary way of communication here - from people on
my team and some internal discuss lists.
When I am at home (could be any time) we (DH has the same schedule)
usually spend more times on computer. Sometimes we watch movies too.
-Ang
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Before you buy.
Julia
a royal pain to get it working properly, but since then, it's been great.
Of course, @home is great too if you can shell out the clams!
Robin <rob...@SoftHome.net> wrote in message
news:MPG.12791b4c7...@news.usit.net...
> I swear... we've been through 4 ISPs in less than a year, and they're all
> pitiful.
>
Julia
news:380f81ca....@news.erols.com...
> I'm amazed at all of you who have time alloted to each of your
> activities. I have no idea what "time" it is when I do things. I'm
> vaguely aware that we wake up sometime before 6am, that I work during
> the day from about 9am to variable times, dependent on day of week,
> and that I come home, and if it's my turn to cook, prepare dinner.
Amazement.
>
> One thing I noticed - a lot of people seem to read the newsgroup in
> the morning; I personally read it after work, while I'm waiting for FH
> to arrive home. Is this just me? :-) It's my "unwinding at the end of
> the work day" activity.
>
I read it after work too - on the computer that DH uses for work during the
day. (When he's not using it!)
Rebecca
>I'm jealous =)
>
>Our study, which I work from and spend 90% of our waking hours, doesn't
>have a clicker for the radio. Eric has a rather old, but extremely good,
>tuner, and that's what's in here. We do have a clicker for the CD
>changer, but I can't switch from the radio to a CD w/o getting up. I
>really ought to just load the changer up with more CDs, and ignore the
>radio until elections are over.
I listen to the radio through real audio. Very easy to change
stations or just quit out of it so it when politics come on and
equally easy to open the application again, to see if the election
babble has stopped :-)
--
Rebecca <rc...@my-deja.com>
Robin
> Try AT&T (home.att.net, I think)? - if they have a dialup near you. It was
> a royal pain to get it working properly, but since then, it's been great.
> Of course, @home is great too if you can shell out the clams!
I'll give it a look, thanks! What was the challenge in getting it
working? If it's the software, that's fine because I won't use it.
Geri.Clark
vicky....@camcon.co.nospam.uk (Vicky Larmour) wrote:
> Oh LOL! This is just like my Dad, whose alarm goes off at 6:32
> precisely. I asked him why not just 6:30, he said he doesn't need to
get
> up that early! He has his morning routine timed down to the last
second
Don't think we're that organized! The first alarm is set at 6:07 because
that's where DH took his finger off the "alarm set" button once and we
never changed it. At some point the clock will be unplugged or something
and we'll start getting up at 6:10 or 6:06 :-)
Rose Bingham
<vybo...@skypoint.com> wrote:
>Maybe I *should* lobby for premium cable service
>so I can retaliate with HGTV! (House and Garden Television, for
>decorating and remodeling buffs.)
Oh yes - no one should be without HGTV! IMO, it should be included in
basic cable - you know, ABC, NBC, CBS and HGTV...
Rose
reply to philro at cwjamaica dot com
Shawn & Joy Pennington
Gainesmk wrote in message <19991022003626...@ng-cd1.aol.com>...
>Oh, you guys are making me laugh!! Good thread, Vicky.
>
>10:00 p.m. {snipped} Usually get a foot rub
>from Mark.
Now this is something I would *love* to implement in my daily routine;
however, DH is determined not to!!
Joy