janc
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response 29 of 32:
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Oct 30 03:56 UTC 2003 |
Daily routine, eh? Well, they vary a bit, but kind of goes like this:
1:00 AM - go to bed. Take or give two hours.
2:00 AM - Kendra wakes. Valerie moves to her bed, and likely spends the
rest of the night there.
6:00 AM - Arlo wanders into the room. Says he had a bad dream. He didn't
really, it's just an acceptable and irrefutable excuse for waking
a parent when he wants company at 6:00 AM. I escourt him back
to his room, and then go back to sleep. This may happen several
more times.
7:30 AM - Wake up for real this time. Take or give a half hour.
Dress, head to kitchen make lunch for Arlo. Possibly also
breakfast, if Valerie hasn't already fed him.
8:00 AM - Nag Arlo till he gets dressed and ready for school. Load him
in the car seat, and drive to school. If it's MWF, Valerie will
be bringing Kendra to her school. Otherwise I usually take Kendra
along for the ride to drop off Arlo.
9:00 AM - Arrive at Arlo's school. Actual arrival time varies between
7:30 AM and 9:00 AM.
9:15 AM - Back home again. Time to feed myself breakfast.
9:30 AM - Down to the basement to fire up the computer for about three hours
of worrk.
12:15 PM - Time to go pick up Arlo.
1:00 PM - Arlo is home, time to eat lunch.
1:30 PM - Afternoon activities begin. These vary a lot. Basically either
Valerie or I watch the kids, while the other either works or does
household stuff, like getting groceries.
3:00 PM - Afternoon snack time for the kids.
5:00 PM - Time to start cooking dinner. Valerie does Tues, Thursday, Sunday.
I do Monday, Wednesday, Friday. Other parent either works or
watches kids, depending on whether the kids are in a fit state to
watch while cooking.
6:00 PM - Dinner. Start time varies with recipe complexity. Kids often
eat earlier. After dinner, whoever cooked cleans kitchen.
7:00 PM - Bedtime for kids starts. Mostly Valerie puts Kendra to bed, and
I put Arlo to bed. Bedtime starts with a snack (unless dinner was
so late it ran into bedtime), then clean up of toys in living
room, den and kid's rooms. Then toothbrushing - I brush Arlo's
teeth twice a week, he does his own (not very thoroughly) the
other five days. Arlo dresses for bed. Then Arlo can choose
a book to read. After that, we tell made-up bed time stories.
Theoretically Valerie and I alternate telling stories to Arlo,
but most nights Valerie is still busy getting Kendra to sleep,
so I do most of them. Lately Arlo has been telling them to us
a lot.
8:30 PM Arlo is probably in bed now. Probably not asleep yet. Time
to go downstairs, get back on the computer, and get in a bit more
work. However, often I'm just too brain-fried to do much work
by this point. Then I do Grex or watch a video. or do something
else pointless till I tip over from exhaustion.
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dcat
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response 31 of 32:
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Nov 27 08:01 UTC 2003 |
since i don't have class till noon, i'm frequently not up till 1030 or 11.
shower, shave once or twice a week, and out the door to class around 1145.
MWF, second class at 1, then work 2--5. T/R, lunch or reading or homework
till second class at 230, then more reading or something 345--later. Dinner
at some point, if I feel like it. The last few weeks I've been working on
a show, so a couple times a week, i went in at 530 to start that.; done 11ish.
If I have a 'routine' beyond that, I don't recall it.
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