My Everyday

The theme for yesterday’s Gallery pic was “Everyday” and as you know, no two days for me are ever the same.   Are they for anybody?  I suspect not.    So I thought I would chart a day in the life of me:

• 04.45 —  Hear Mr B telling J to go to bed
• 05.00 — Curse the world that I am still awake
• 05.05 — Check Twitter and change scheduled time for blog post
• 05.07 — Read blog post.
• 06.15 — Fall asleep
• 06.30 — Get woken up by alarm.   Spend half an hour getting ready
• 07.00 — Check Twitter.
• 07.15 — Wake up E
• 07.20 — Check work emails.
• 07.30 —  Chat to E, make sure she is ready for school, eaten etc
• 07.40 — Congratulate self on getting out of house on time
• 08.10 — Drop E at school and head off to Waitrose  as hungry.
• 08.45 — Spend £94 when I only went in for a croissant
• 09.10 — Get home and walk dog.  Forget food in boot.
• 09.30 — Work for a couple of hours.
• 11.40 — Go and look for croissant.  Remember it’s in car
• 11.45 — Put shopping away
• 12.00 — Empty and reload washing machine / tumble drier
• 12.14 — Empty and reload dishwasher
• 12.15 — Do another couple of hours of work
• 13.55 — Chat to C who is off to play poker all afternoon
• 14.00 — Go and tell 16 year old it is time to get up
• 14.05 — Spot croissant on side.  Eat croissant.
• 14.10 — Make spaghetti bolognaise.  I say make: open jar of Dolmio
• 14.20 — Realise chopped pepper in bolognaise still has sticker on
• 14.22 — Fish various bits of pepper out.  Give up on rest.
• 14.30 — Hoover hall.
• 14.35 — Start work again
• 14.50 — Victim Support phone call received.
• 15.15 — Empty and reload washing machine / tumble drier
• 15.20 — Drive to school to get E.   Making three phone calls en route
• 15.50 — Have ten mins reading book.
• 15.52 — Get told by builder I cannot park where I have done so move
• 15.55 — Pick up book
• 15.56 — E arrives at car.  Drive home chatting.
• 16.30 — Arrive home.   Throw chicken in oven for E and J’s dinner
• 16.31 — Realise rolls for the chicken burgers have mould on.
• 16.32 — Cut four bits of bread from uncut loaf
• 16.35 — Do some more work.   E takes dog out
• 17.00 — Feed E and J whilst I try and find more pepper sticker
• 17.20 — Do some more work
• 18.00 — Stop for a cuppa with passing friend @lady_briggs.
• 19.30 — Collapse on sofa with laptop and do some blog stuff.
• 20.12 — Hear Mr B key in door, shout “shit” and run to put spaghetti on
• 20.30 — Eat / chat / drink wine
• 20.40 — Sing happy birthday to Lady B who is on phone to Mr B
• 20.45 — Pick up laptop and create “MummyBarrow’s book club”
• 22.05 — Take dog out
• 22.30 — Decide it is bed time
• 22.45 — See C come in so have a quick chat
• 23.05 — Decide I am really going to bed now.
• 23.30 — Get off Twitter and actually go to bed.
• 23.50 — Collapse into bed.