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

[juliet]

Regular work day:
* Up at 7am. Shower. Negotiable if something dramatic has happened, but not very much so.
* Cook breakfast & midmorning snack (veggies), stick that & everything else (laptop, lunch, clothes, wallet, phone, bike locks) in bag. Essential.
* Listen to learning-Chinese podcast while cooking breakfast. Optional.
* 15 min writing. Optional but it does make me feel better.
* Clean teeth, get dressed. Essential!
* Cycle to work. Not optional unless there is a very very good reason (physical or practical) for not cycling.
* Work! Sadly not optional unless ill :-)
* Cycle home around 5. (I try to avoid staying late.)
* Knit in front of the Simpsons; have snack if hungry. I try to protect this, or some other sitting-down time when I get in, but it's negotiable depending on what's going on.
* In ideal world: do one of weekly chores. This happens very rarely...
* Evening stuff varies (see later).
* Make sandwiches, prep breakfast & mid-morning snack (chop veggies ready to steam/flash-fry in morning), sort out clothes for next day. I try very very very hard to protect this as it makes mornings so much better.
* Clean teeth, face. Essential (otherwise ewww skanky teeth).
* Endeavour to be in bed between 11pm & midnight. Mostly successful these days.

Weekends are similar but I'm more likely to not bother showering at the weekends (esp if e.g. going down the allotment later on - I'll shower later).

Evening stuff: in an ideal world, 1 x study evening, 1 x date with each of boyfriends, 1 x QNI, 1 x sociable evening & then there's only weekends left. QNI tends to get turned into another sociable evening sometimes, but that's not necessarily a good thing. All of the above are movable if things are going wrong (dates probably least so, but study is pretty important as well - depends on when in the semester it is).

I do chores at the weekend, mostly, unless I've been all organised & got them done in the week. It's about an hr a week, if that, so not that onerous.

I try quite hard to be up at 7am on weekdays & in work by 9am. If I've had a v bad night that might not happen - I don't sleep badly very often so I don't mind occasionally being late to work in that event. Similarly I think that sick leave / working from home are *there* for days when one can't cope very well.