Schedules and Routines

[ewt]

On an ideal day, what would you get done? Include self-care activities (like hygiene and eating) and self-support activities (like working if applicable). Try to be realistic about what can actually happen in the course of a day. What would you need to do each day to never get behind in chores, to feel fulfilled and happy, and to maintain your relationships to your satisfaction?

On an average day, what do you get done? Include self-care and life-support activities as above.

On an emergency, oh-shit-everything-has-gone-wrong day, what are the essential things that you make sure you do? What is your bare-bones routine that you go out of your way to protect? What things from your above routines are "skippable" and for how long? Do you adapt by eating ready meals or by going in late to work? Do you skimp on sleep or shuffle chores to another day?

Details, details, details, please, if you will.

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[yellowrocket.livejournal.com]

OK. By the way, what's your reason for asking?

I work from home and juggle being a student homoeopath with being a single parent, farm-help for Mum and sewing for a living so average days are a bit thin on the ground!

Things that get done every day are:
Sorting out the horses morning and afternoon and any jobs Mum needs help with.
Getting kids and myself up, fed and out of the door at the right times, with the right stuff!
Preparing meals (I very rarely use TV dinners or similar, one of the many benefits of being at home during the day).
Basic housework (making beds, washing up, washing clothes, tidying things away etc.).
Spend time with the kids, which often gets done around other things.
Talk to my fiance on the phone (he's living about 200 miles away at the moment).
Shower/bath, brush hair and teeth, all the obvious self-care stuff.
Usually taking one or other of us out in the evening - between Small's dancing lessons, Tall being a Young Leader, morris practice and aikido we're out somewhere most days.
The kids have jobs too, like feeding the dog and laying the table which are done every day.

In addition to this each day contains homoeopathy stuff (including treating patients, assignments and the like), sewing/knitting for orders and two markets and more serious housework, in varying proportions. I'm good at getting what needs doing, done so the lack of detailed routine bothers me not at all. Gardening tends to get done at weekends.

If anything has to be let slide, it's things like the hoovering and dusting or gardening. Not for more than a week though :-)