Thursday, February 16, 2012

Time

"Just once I would like to wake up with more time on my hands than there are hours in the day."
Will Salas ( Justin Timberlake) - In Time

So obviously time is somthing I have issues with if you couldn't tell by the frequency (or infrequency) of my posts. So I felt it fitting to look at my schedule, my life and what I do with the time I have. I figured I should start with Monday morning since that's where most peoples week start.

Monday and Tuesday
9:00 am;   get up and ready for work. (my wife will take the kids to day care so I can sleep in unless she has to be in to work early.)
9:15 am;   leave for work.
9:30 am;   start work. (most weeks it's 9:30 am some weeks it can be earlier, a few weeks it's later.)
6:00 pm;   end work and head home. (this is my scheduled time off but I have stayed as late as 7:30 pm.)
6:30 pm;   (or later) sit down for dinner or make dinner. (some Tuesday nights, I get to go out with my wife                 for a movie and or dinner.)
7:00 pm;    clean up/check e-mail/unwind, whatever works out.
7:30 pm;    give my kids a bath and get them ready for bed.
8:00 pm;    read a story (if there is time), say prayers, and tuck my daughter into bed.
8:05 pm;    my son eats, gets a diaper change, and gets dressed for bed. I either finish up what I didn't get to do at 7:00, or my wife and I start a Netflix.
9:00 pm;    on Mondays we watch "Castle" on ABC (GREAT SHOW), if that's not on (or a rerun) or on Tuesdays, we'll just keep watching Netflix. Somewhere during this time we make lunches for tomorrow, and make some kind of sweet dessert. That sometimes stretches into the next hour.
10:00 pm;  start the process of getting ready for bed-shower, brush teeth/hair, dressed for bed.
10:30 pm;  hopefully I'm getting into bed at this time, sometimes it takes til 11:00 pm to get to this point. The nice thing is it usually only takes a few minutes for me to fall asleep.
2:00 am;    Get up and go get papers assembled and ready for delivery. I unfortunately hit snooze on my alarm for about an hour most days. Mondays it's only one part and Tuesdays it's two. My total number of papers on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday is about 220-ish.
3:15 am;    Start delivering papers (between now and 4:00 am, depending on when I got to the D.C.-distribution center.)
4:30 am;    This is the earliest I get finished (which is rare) from this time til 5:30 am.(the official dead line)
4:45 am;    at the earliest, but on average I get home between 5:30 am to 5:45 am.
5:45 am;    wash up from the newspaper.
5:50 am;     crawl into bed and sleep until 9:00 am to get ready for work.


Wednesday, Thursday and Friday (unless I'm off one of those days)
7:40 am;   get up with my son,  my wife goes to work around 7:00am. Feed my son a bottle and cereal.
8:30 am;   get up my daughter, feed her breakfast, if she's not all ready up and getting into things.
9:30 am;   put my son down for a nap, a little earlier if he's cranky.  
11:30 am; get my son back up and feed him a bottle and food and make lunch for me and my daughter.
12:30 pm; put my daughter down for a nap.
1:30 pm;   Put my son down for a nap and take one myself.
3:30 pm;   get my daughter up and start "dinner".
4:15 pm;   eat dinner when my wife gets home.
4:30 pm;   get ready for work.
4:45 pm;   leave for work to work from 5 to 2:00 am (approximately)
2:00 am;   get newspapers ready for delivery (400 + on Wednesdays 280-ish on Thursdays)
3:45 am;   start delivering newspapers (this is the ideal time, but it's more likely between 4:00 and 4:15 am)
5:30 am;   deadline for papers being done Monday - Friday ( I finish between this and 6:30 am depending on when I started.)
6:00 am;   get home and crawl into bed before having to get up with my son in an hour and forty minutes.

Saturday
11:30 am;  so I get to sleep in a little. I prefer to get up by 10:30 am so I can spend some time with my family before work.
12:00 pm;  make/eat lunch.
12:30 pm;  get ready for work.
12:45 pm;  leave for work. Usually I work 1:00 pm to 10:00 pm, but sometimes it's 12:00 pm or 2:00 pm.
1:00 pm;    start work.
10:00 pm;  usually I do get to leave on time, but 10:30 pm is about the latest unless something happens.
10:15 pm;  meet my wife at the D.C. to pre-assemble Sunday's paper. (bring my wife popcorn and soda for payment)
11:00 pm;  head home to nap before having to come back and finish assembling and bagging Sunday's paper.
11:15 pm;  hop into bed for a quick nap.
1:00 am;   wake up and head back to the D.C. to bag papers.
1:20 am:   get to D.C. and start bagging papers(it takes me a bit longer to wake up and go back)
3:00 am    start loading the van, this may happen between now and 4:00 am depending how big the papers are and how long it took to bag.
3:30 am;   start delivering the papers, this may start between now and 4:15 depending on how long it takes to load the van. Which is usually around 30 to 40 minutes.
6:30 am;   finish throwing the paper, this my happen between and 7:00 the latest 7:30 or 8:00 on rare occasion.

Sunday
8:45 am;   this would be the ideal time to get up to get to church on time. It's more like 9:00 am or 9:15 am when this actually happens.
9:30am;    again this would be the ideal time to leave to get to church on time, but it's more like 9:45 am. On days we help in the nursery, we're suppose to be there by 9:30 am, we still end up leaving the house between 9:30 am and 9:45 am.
10:00 am;  church begins (wither we are on time on not, usually not)
11:00 am;  this is more like 11:15 am or sometimes even latter but the Spanish service starts at 11:30 am so they try to clear the sanctuary as quickly as possible.
11:20 am;  my wife and I was the communion plates every week (unless we're in the nursery). The only time we would wash during service is when they do a communion service for the whole congregation.
11:30 am;  leave church and either go to lunch or go home for lunch.
12:00 pm;  start lunch either at a restaurant or at home.
12:30 pm;  if we are at home we put my daughter down for a nap at this time.
1:30   pm;  if we are at home we put my son down for a nap. If we went out this is about the time we will be finishing and heading home...for naps.
1:45 pm;  arrive home and get kids down for nap, maybe even take one myself. If not, we start a Netflix movie or TV show(we just started White Collar).
3:30 pm; get the kids up from nap. Some Sundays we go grocery shopping, others we tidy up around the house.
6:00 pm; do whatever we were going to do for dinner,either eat in or go out.
7:00 pm;  If we eat at home we get the kids ready for bath, if we go out the bath waits till we get home.
7:45 pm;  around this time we get them ready for bed.
8:00 pm;  put my daughter down for bed, after prayer my wife nurses my son and we watch something on Netflix.
8:20 pm;  put my son down for bed and make lunches for tomorrow.
8:30 pm;  continue watching Netflix.
9:30 pm;  shower and get ready for bed.
10:00 pm; get into to sleep until I have to go do the newspapers.
2:00 am;   wake up to the alarm (usually hitting snooze two or three times) and leave for the paper.
3:15 am;    Start delivering papers (between now and 4:00 am, depending on when I got to the D.C.-distribution center.)
4:30 am;    This is the earliest I get finished (which is rare) from this time til 5:30 am.(the official dead line)
4:45 am;    at the earliest, but on average I get home between 5:30 am to 5:45 am.
5:45 am;    wash up from the newspaper.
5:50 am;     crawl into bed and sleep until 9:00 am to get ready for work and start at Monday all over again.

So for the most part this is my schedule. Somtimes we have other plans, or special occasions that cause things to alter a bit but for the most part, this is it.  This is why I'm tired all the time, why my papers are sometimes late, and why this blog took over three months to write (and almost as much time to read I'm sure.).