Inspired by the excellent ganching – an excruciatingly granular day in the life of carolbaby:

• 06:05 – Alarm. Feed kitties, make coffee, return to bed, read phone – check for overnight messages on family chat, personal email, read management articles, scroll cross-stitch reddit
• 06:30 – Drink coffee, more pointless internet phone reading, brush teeth
• 07:05 – Morning walk with Don
• 08:00 – Grab dinner from freezer (red beans and rice tonight), make another coffee, eat breakfast (greek yoghurt with a couple of berries), wash breakfast dishes, take probiotic, light candle, pull three tarot cards (judge if you must), ponder tarot cards, meditate for 7 minutes, blow out candle, legs-up-wall for 5 minutes while reading kindle (re-reading the Miss Silver novels – wouldn’t necessarily recommend), drink coffee, read blogs on computer, watch heart-warming youtube video, shower, brush teeth, dress, make pot of green tea, fill water jug
• 09:00 – Daily Team call – WIP, bonding, all the good things (great meeting – good energy)
• 09:30 – Daily project #1 meeting with vendor (terrible lose-will-to-live meeting)
• 10:00 – Twice weekly IT meeting (pretty okay meeting)
• 10:30 – emails, slack, 5 min legs-up-wall, listen to chilled tunes on new micro-hifi
• 11:00 – Weekly project #2 meeting (can’t-get-a-word-in meeting), prep for 2pm meeting I’m chairing for first time
• 12:00 – Walk to store for quick fresh food shop, call with Bobs to go over his 2pm meeting prep, unpack shopping, make sandwich (avocado, chicken, tomato, cheese, cos on wholemeal) and fruit (mango, orange, strawberry, green grapes), eat lunch, read kindle, watch fish romp about in new(ish) aquarium, feed ravenous kitties, wash lunch dishes, force video of delightful fishy antics on family
• 14:00 – Very Important new monthly meeting with Leadership team (good meeting) – pleased with outcome
• 15:30 – Email, slack, issue various edicts/instructions, meeting fatigue so reschedule 2 individual WIP meetings, make pot of lemongrass and ginger tea (with ginger peelings and lemongrass off-cuts – amazing new discovery), schedule mentoring session I’ve been putting off, lock in annual leave day for two weeks hence
• 18:00 – Close work computer, greet Don, pack away dishes, 15min on exercise bike, 20 squats (gotta start somewhere), sit quietly watching fish for a bit, briefly scroll pinterest (not feeling it), clear dish drainer, force more fish videos on family
• 19:00 – Drive to officeworks to collect print job (this should be quick, it is not and takes at least double the time I’d planned), sit quietly with kindle while red beans heats up and the rice cooks, eat dinner, help Joe/Frank clear table, dry some dishes to make space in drainer for more, feed fish, feed ravenous kitties, drink probiotic drink and make big cup of chai
• 21:00 – Retire to not-craft room with audio book and stitching, drink chai, think thoughts
• 22:15 – Prepare for bed, wash face, wash feet (I absolutely cannot sleep with not-washed feet), brush teeth and floss, set muji oil diffuser, set alarm, read kindle for a bit, fall asleep

Still here? You deserve a prize!

Was this a typical work day? Pretty much – I probably have more meetings than this in the average day, I try to ride the bike at lunch rather than after work, there is generally more involved in dinner prep and I leave the house much less.
What I’d like to change: less phone time in the morning (it’s a lot), add journalling, increase meditation time (or add a post-work session), more exercise – even in short bursts

You should totally share your day too