Time Tracking Day #6: Post-Travel Day at Home

Here we go! Monday = creative work day, but we also had just gotten back from a rather tiring weekend trip.

(One week is about all I can muster of formal time tracking, and I’m sure it’s about all anyone wants to read of these posts! Thankfully we are in the home stretch.)

6:00 Up (7 hr + 40 minutes sleep). Slightly abbreviated AM routine (no workout)

6:45 Get kids up + help them with breakfast; make G’s lunch

7:30 They all left (Josh drives Monday) — tidy kitchen, eat my own breakfast, read, Headspace

8:15 Write posts (show notes, yesterday’s time tracking)

8:50 Drive to and attend Pilates (2.0 class this time – definitely some tough moments, esp in the glutes/hamstrings omg with some crazy sustained one-legged bridging). 2 stops on the way home: UPS store, gas station

10:20 Interview prep, more blog post writing, plan the week out in more detail + put it up on the board

11:40 Take a walk and think about interview quesitons

12:15 Eat lunch; debrief G (nanny who just arrived) about week’s upcoming stuff

12:50 BLP recording – interview, intro, and outro, plus write show notes and send in. Inspired by my guest (truly — I loved this interview and she really made me think!), I do some playing around with Claude and some potential projects.

(I think I might like Claude’s vibe slightly more than ChatGPT?)

((Don’t worry, nothing posted here has been or ever will be AI generated; I would rather stop posting than not write my own words, so you can rest easy on that!))

3:15 It is time: I deal with state tax stuff (both business + nanny related)

4:00 drive G to voice lessons! I promised her I would take her on this particular day. She just started and really likes it — she is currently singing “Castle on a Cloud” from Les Miserables.

4:30 email/admin during the voice lesson itself

5:00 take G to Jeremiah’s (I had promised her we could do this like once a month after voice)

6:00 Home, eat a little bit of dinner (obviously neither of us were that hungry . . .), make coffee for the next day. A was at gymnastics already; C was getting ready for basketball. Our nanny left and dropped him off on her way home.

6:45 Piano with G; some of my own a cappella cramming (reunion is THIS WEEKEND)

7:30 Admin – work on documentation for FOUND MONEY (in doing my decluttering I rediscovered an old bank account we had back in NC. I don’t think THAT much is in there, but the website says “over $100” so I’m going to at least attempt to resurrect it!)

8:15 C comes home (Josh); direct him to shower. Make food for G who is now hungry. Not sure what else . . . at ~9:00, A got home (also Josh) from gymnastics (she was very happy to start working on new skills)

9:15 Put G to bed, talk to Josh, talk on phone a little bit with SIL

10:00 Read Sky Daddy (not gonna lie I kind of love books like this, a very unusual and somewhat unhinged yet endearing narrator . . .)

10:30 Fall asleep

Admittedly this day ALSO did not contain a “full day’s” worth of work. I absolutely DO have some of those days on my ‘creative’ days — like literally back to back from 8a – 6p. But, as demonstrated here, that is obviously not always the case. And kid stuff works its way in, which is by design – I’m GLAD I have the bandwidth to do this!

(Side note: I CRIED reading LL’s post today. Partly because I KNOW I am in this golden phase and I truly do love it and it feels so fleeting and her notes basically 4 years into my future are a reminder of just how short it is.)