Schedule for the day
A couple of people have asked me recently what I do in a given day and so here it is…my schedule for remaining sane during forced joblessness.
8am - Finally give up on trying to sleep while the dog licks you knees: go walk the damn blasted thing
9am - Get back from ‘walking’ the dog and curse that weird personality flaw which compels you to ‘run’ the dog when this time you swore you were going to take a nice leasurly wander instead
9-10am - do random chores (take out the garbage, unload the dishwasher, do a load of laundry, sweep up, etc.) in order to strengthen ‘domestic goddess fallacy’
10-10:30am - enjoy a giant bowl of oatmeal with too much (see definition for ‘just the right amount of’) sugar because, ooops you seem to have spilled sugar into your bowl again
10:30am-noon - work on the project of the day whether that be baking dog biscuits, applying for jobs, building a wall, etc.
noon - pick up the next door neighbors dog aka our only source of income
12:30pm - make and eat lunch
1pm - cleam up after lunch and finish morning activities
5pm - start thinking of a good (enough) reason to skip the most boring yoga class ever
rest of the evening - make and eat dinner, clean up, reluctantly attend yoga if 5pm wasn’t productive, check email compulsively every two minutes for an hour or so, watch some of the crap they have on tv these days
11pm - collapse into bed after another challenging day of doing nothing
Not too different than my retirement, but I couldn’t use my (non-existant) dog as an excuse to get out and about for the day. This basically means that, er, some days I, er, didn’t actually go outside much (i.e. at all).
It sounds like an OK existence, as long as there’s -something- to do day to day.
That sounds reminiscent of my job search days. I found getting into soap operas was a good way to pace the typically slow afternoons. While doing nothing starts off fun, it does become tiresome(!). My solution to that was writing…