A typical day
A former classmate of mine emailed me yesterday about starting a blog. Two weeks ago, Mrs. Lindsey Thomas did the same. And others have, so on. Conversations like that make me excited to write something, though I’m not sure what to write about.
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I’m pretty settled in Seattle as this point. The only thing Nate and I really NEED (OK, want) is a couch. We have our eyes on one at Target — it folds out into a bed, in a very classy fashion.
We’ve kind of been at our typical daily routine at this point. Maybe you don’t know what that is. Maybe you’d like to know. …
5 a.m. Nate wakes up for work. He got a job at Queen Anne Painting, doing what he’s always done. Fortunately, he seems to really enjoy it — as much as he can enjoy painting for hours on end.
6 a.m. Nate catches his bus for work. He has to take it to wherever the painting site is, which is already a bit of a pain for him.
9:45 a.m. I wake up! I start my day!
10:30 a.m. I do one of two things: I either sit at my computer to transcribe video for a few hours or I work on stuff for The League for the Blind and Disabled at Starbucks.
12:30-1 p.m. I eat lunch! I’m always tempted to eat delicious tacos from Malena’s or sketchy teriyaki from Yasuko’s … but more often than not I eat a salad at home or a sandwich.
1:30 p.m. I take my mid-day Mary break. (I watch an episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show on my computer.) This gives me enough energy to keep working.
2 p.m. Work some more.
4:30 p.m. I go down to the grocery store for dinner goods. We eat at home six days a week, and usually it’s pretty delicious stuff. Pesto pork chops. Chicken with lemon and thyme. Vegetable pasta. Etc.
6 p.m. Eat dinner with Nathan dearest. He tells me about the crazy people on the bus and what the homeowner’s father told him today. (Usually it’s all pretty amusing.)
7 p.m. Clean up. Or make Nate clean up.
7:30 p.m. I’ll either work on more transcribing or I’ll read/write/etc. I only have a few more stories left in that John Irving anthology I bought. Sometimes Nate and I walk down to Ken’s grocery in Queen Anne to buy giant pickles and watch the sunset. Seriously.
9:30 p.m. Nate and I eat our bedtime cookies and watch two episodes of Mary Tyler Moore.
10:30 p.m. Bedtime for Nate!
11:30 p.m. Bedtime for me!
July 21, 2012