My Daily Routine

I can tell by the amount of cleaning that Velvet is doing around the house that the greatly anticipated birth of my second child is coming soon. I’m not quite sure how I am going to juggle everything but I thought documenting the daily routine before and after the birth would be an interesting exercise, so here goes the before:

My weekdays begin with the alarm going off at 7:00am sharp. Most mornings I lay there for a few minutes hoping that Velvet will jump into the shower first so I can grab an extra 15 minutes of sleep, it’s usually a 50/50 chance of that happening. Before showering, I open up the laptop, read my morning email, answer all the support questions that I can, read the blogs I follow, and check my Webmail Lite account. (All of this can be done in 15-20 minutes). After showering, shaving, and ironing; I grab a donut, pop-tart, or anything else that is quick and easy and gobble it down. Hopefully by this time Jordan is up, in a good mood, and requires only a moderate amount of teeth pulling to convince her to get dressed for school. (I won’t talk about the days that Jordan is in a BAD mood, LOL) Jordan generally has only two requests: Mickey Mouse pancakes (in a baggie so she can eat in the car on the way to school) and some chocolate milk.

Jordan’s school is only 5 minutes from work and right on the way, so it’s very convenient. I listen to my favorite sports talk show “Mike & Mike in the Morning” on the way to drop off Jordan. Jordan is generally very quiet during the ride to school, eating her pancakes and drinking her milk. But she does like to point out every school bus that she sees (and she has yet to miss one). I usually drop Jordan off at 8:30am and arrive at work shortly thereafter.

I eat lunch at my desk really quickly and try to leave the office by 6:00pm. (Although I have managed to find time to workout twice this week I would hardly consider it part of my “daily routine” at this point.) I come home (Velvet picks up Jordan from school), fix dinner (50/50 chance Velvet will handle this), read a book to Jordan, and give her bath. By this time it’s 8:00pm and I once again open the laptop, check my email, answer support questions, read my blogs, and begin working on whatever issues I didn’t quite have enough time for during “business hours”. After another 3-4 hours of working I close the laptop, grab a few late night snacks and head to bed. I usually toss and turn for 30 minutes or so thinking about servers, code, scalability, infrastructure, hiring, planning, or whatever other issues happen to be on my mind at the time. I force myself to sleep because I know 7:00am will come fast and furious.

Hopefully in a week or two I will have an update on the “routine” or lack thereof. I have a strong suspicion that this may be my last blog for awhile though.