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.

Comments

[redcountess]

On an average day I'll get my own breakfast and meds, get dressed, maybe make a sandwich for A and I while she tends to Freda, and spod while Freda wrangling/talking to A (and later D). Spodding includes dealing with household stuff like groceries orders and household finances. I will make or receive phone calls. At bedtime I will brush my teeth.

On an ideal day, I'll do all that plus bathe, get out of the house to shop and/or socialise, and do some housework like pack the dishwasher, put on a load of clothes and/or fold some clean clothes and take them up to the bedrooms. I will brush my teeth not only at bedtime but after breakfast, and sometimes lunch as well.

On an oh-shit day, I tend to stay in my night clothes, have breakfast and lunch made for me, surf the 'net and not move from the sofa unless I need the toilet. I don't use the phone. I may have to be reminded to take my meds, and have them taken out for me if my hands are bad. I may also spend part of all of the day in bed and not be up to going downstairs to brush my teeth.