Wednesday = typically a nonclinical work day for me, unless I’m on call or on vacation!
I’m using Toggl (I just use the free version) to pull this data but providing a little more detail than I do in the app. It really is the best tool for me to be able to stick to time tracking!
5:30 Up + morning routine which did not include a morning workout on this particular day. I spent an hour and 20 minutes (woah) doing other thing, though! These included:
- actually like, getting up / taking meds / getting coffee
- all of my ‘review of the prior day’ activities (filling out my various habit trackers)
- 5 year journal + morning pages (about 15 min for this)
- setting up the day’s planner page and choosing tasks for the day
- reading, Headspace, and my usual NYT games (Wordle, Connections, Mini — in which Lisa later beat me by 1 second. GAH!)
6:50 Get kids up, make G & C breakfast (G = blueberry toaster waffle + blueberries; C can and sometimes does make his own but I was feeling charitable so I heated up his egg burrito).
7:35 Drive kids to school (two stops, big kids then G); we listened to Taylor Swift on the way (going old school, it’s been more Tate McRae lately)
8:35 Arrive back home. Write script + record BLP for Monday, which is two days later than I typically like to record podcasts (my sound team prefers a week buffer!) — but I was on call Monday so Wednesday morning it was. Prep for interview (me interviewing someone for BOBW) slated for later in day.
9:50 Prep house for exterminator because we have our yearly treatment (sigh). I move things out from under the sinks, noting that we actually aren’t terribly cluttered under the sinks! Small win? This leads to some generalized tidying and me finally unpacking my suitcase from the weekend’s trip.
10:30 The exterminator calls and says he is running late, so I get in a 30 minute CG workout (Iron #17, Upper Body)
11:00 Chat with exterminator briefly; continue prepping for interview, write blog post, and text chat for a bit with Kae
12:10 Eat lunch, read blogs, Duolingo
12:55 Butt-in-seat for BOBW interview with Manoush Zomorodi!!!!!! (I am kind of obsessed with her and this interview was so much fun.) (I feel like maybe it’s journalistic taboo to share this before it airs, but I feel confident it will air, and I am too excited about it not to share.)
After the interview I do some episode uploading since Laura had sent me tracks from her interview. BOBW is typically farther ahead compared with BLP 🙂
2:00 Konmari organizer Sophie arrives!!! (Did I really ‘have time’ to do this? I would have said no, but I did it, so apparently the answer was yes.)
We tackle the PAPER category, meaning every piece of paper in the house that is mine to go through – whew! I gleefully dispose of things like tax documents from 2015. (I believe I had done this exercise when we moved in 2022, because there weren’t any from before that!). Josh has a lot of paper that isn’t really mine to mess with so the job didn’t feel ENTIRELY done, but we made tons of progress (and Josh is going to do some sessions with her too!).
We HAD started this category at the last session (we did books and then moved on to paper) so I would say in total it took about 4 hours. According to Sophie that was very much on the low end. I credit Lisa Woodruff’s The Paper Solution for being in overall good shape.
5:00 Take a 20 minute walk around the neighborhood before driving to pick up G from her tutor (she goes once a week to practice reading and math skills).
5:40 Dinner with G (leftover ‘sushi salmon bowl’ with salmon, rice, avocado, cucumber, and radish + soy/honey/sesame oil sauce) + clean up. Big kids apparently were hungry and ate without us.
6:10 Shower. Yeah, really late but I guess better late than never? Josh home for a few minutes at this point but he had a work dinner all the way in Miami (he’s on the board of the South Florida Vascular Surgery Society and they had to plan the upcoming meeting — the one we go to every year in the Keys).
6:35 Email + admin – would call this noncreative work stuff mostly; I eventually got my inbox down to 2! At this point, our nanny takes C to basketball which is from 7-8 pm and just far enough that coming back and forth does not make sense. (Her day started with picking up the kids @ 3, so she is able to work on the later end!)
7:30 Piano & music time – first I practiced with G, then I practiced myself, and THEN I practiced a little bit of the music for the upcoming a cappella weekend (singing)!
AND THEN I amused myself with perfect pitch tests. I nailed this one (6/6!) but found this one more challenging for some reason (the chromatic/all notes version). (I used to have effortless perfect pitch and have found that now in my old age I can be half a step off, but I feel like maybe I could get this back with practice?
8:30 10 more minutes of email, I guess that’s when I got down to Inbox Two. Somewhere in there, C is dropped home.
8:40 C showers while I start the bedtime routine with G; we read some Diary of a Wimpy Kid together and then she finishes on her own (I trust her to turn her light out when she’s tired at this point). I chat with A (who has no activities Weds – it’s her only weeknight off from dance or gymnastics) who is deep into a science presentation. (I marvel at her Canva abilities, she is so good!). I say good night to C who is deep into Dungeon Crawler Carl Book #4 (he reads and listens on audio simultaneously).
9:30 Read in bed (Finding Grace – it’s good!) and get through ~20 pages before I falling asleep between sentences. Oh and text with my sister for a bit about a medical question and A’s friends about possible dates for a graduation dinner.
9:50 SLEEP
Kind of a weird day, but . . . aren’t they ALL in some way? I feel like I did a lot of things “wrong” (mid-day housework, a super long morning routine) but it all worked out. I recognize that I *did not* have anywhere near a full day of work, but I got some essential things done. Will remember days like this when I’m wondering why I need to get things done during a long block on a Sunday. (It’s not a tragedy – it’s just how the pieces sometimes best fit!)
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