Something I've been meaning to put down for a lil while. No particular reason, just something to talk about and kind of give an idea of my energy/free time available.

So, first thing my job has a slightly wonky schedule where I get every other friday off. it's nice, though it means what would be 8 hours on those fridays gets split through the rest of my 2 week pay period. So, with my hour for lunch in the middle I do 10 hour days for work. it's not too bad though and the working friday is a little shorter (plus it's always a pay day, a plus)

So yeah. I wake up every morning for work about 5:15. I have my phone set to go off a few times. 99% of the time the first alarm is enough but I still like to lounge to wake up so the subsequent alarms just let me know how much time I've got left. I hop out of bed, turn on my comp and pull some clothes on before hitting the shower. A quick rinse to clean off and wake up and I go into the kitchen to pack lunch and pull out breakfast, usually a fiber bar of some kind, water, a vitamin and maybe meds (been taking an anti allergy decongestant lately. fuck spring) and some combination of almonds/peanuts/sunflower seeds. I eat this at my comp to check messages, say hi to a few folks, and make sure nothing has to update before I leave for work.

The drive to work isn't too bad, usually 15-25 minutes depending on traffic then a 5 minute walk to the office. A brief greeting with coworkers then over to my own office, where the folks I work with directly roll in over the course of the next 2-3 hours. My work day can be somewhat boom or bust depending on what's going on and how many folks drop in needing my assistance. I go from 6 30 til roughly 12 before I take my lunch break, which I eat in my car since there aren't -great- places to go around the office and it's quiet, private and I can sit and read or play my 2DS if I bring it (haven't lately, it's a bit worn, meaning to upgrade to a 2DSXL eventually) or sometimes I just lay back and chill out/cat nap til my break is up. On the walk to my car I always call granny to see how she's doing.

The latter half of my day tends to be a little quieter, since my office aims to wrap up the most important stuff we do before it gets too late. I get to go home at 4 30. Home at 5, I talk to dad a little and hop on my comp to catch up on messages, then go figure out what to do for dinner with Dad. Sometimes we'll just make stuff on hand (soups, tv dinners, etc) or go pick up fast food (or order pizza) every once in a while I'll bake chicken.

Whatever is for dinner, I get the rest of the night to myself. I tend to go to bed about 11 or 12, depending on what I'm up to and how tired I am. I typically browse, chat, tweet, and play something like WoW or Overwatch. if I'm in a particular mood I'll try to write but it's hard because work tends to wear me out. Doing stuff with friends is always a plus but a lot tend to be tired from work too or go to bed early (cursed timezones!)

That tends to be the usual run any work day. My fridays off I will try and get any errands done that I can't do during the weekend otherwise I'll just spend it relaxing, working on writing if I can, playing games or reading stuff. Lot of friends at work over the day so its usually fairly quiet til the evening.

Saturdays are about the same, though we typically get my 9 year old niece over so she can spend the time and hang out with dad and I. We treat her to dinner, usually a sit down restaurant in town or just fast food if she wants to go out for breakfast on Sunday. Will watch tv with her or occasionally play games or just watch youtube stuff with her, she's recently gotten into watching streamers for like Minecraft. it's pretty cute.

Sundays are probably my busiest most predictable day. breakfast with my niece, either going out or picking up like McDonalds or something or just cooking something on hand like eggs/bacon. I'll shower, dress, and go grocery shopping. My niece comes with me now and again, other times she'll stay with Dad. Once I'm back and unload my groceries I'll take my niece and we'll go pick up my granny. She's still recovering from the stroke so she's still in a walker (getting better though! taking weekly exercise classes now) so we pick her up and go somewhere for lunch, then we go run her errands and get her groceries for the week. It usually eats up a few hours. Once I've put away all her groceries I'll take my niece back home and occasionally I'll pick up lunch for Dad if he wants anything. Back home I get to doing my laundry then have a few hours to kill. Usually fairly worn out from running errands so I tend to just chill out and relax before a 7 pm raid I do with a friend's guild. At some point I'll sort my laundry and then finish out the night browsing/chatting or even a lil more gaming after the raid.

That's about it. it's honestly pretty predictable and gives me at least half a day a week if I want to just focus on projects. It can depend though, unfortunately my days off also seem to be when I'm more prone to a mood crash for a multitude of reasons, particularly lately where just a lot of little stresses coming together. Still though, it's not too bad.

So yeah. Typically what I'm up to.