A million years ago some bloggy friends and I would do regular ‘Day In the Life’ posts together on the same day, so each documenting what they got up to on a particular day. There was a resurrection of this on Tuesday which I am joining in on. You can see the other posts here. Thanks for organising it Claire (Claire is the dynamo behind this excellent shop BTW).
It wasn’t a particularly exciting day so I am not sure how interesting this will be! It was however a nice quiet day, one of those happy days that fills the gaps between bigger adventures.
Something that might be unusual to others is that I don’t require much sleep, I’m not sure of I have mentioned that on here before? I am kind of known for it amongst my friends and I have always been like this since I was small. Unless I’m ill I feel awful if I try to get 8 hours sleep, but on 5-6 I feel great. I love it as it means some days I get twice the day that other people have. There is a whole world of early morning that is pretty cool if you are around to see it. I try to be considerate to all you sleepers though and be quiet. So my day starts at 5:30-5:40am every day, on this day I caught up on news, Twitter, emails etc. via my phone. The Japan time zone is ahead of us so there is usually quite a lot of interesting news from there that has happened overnight. I did the usual getting ready, shower and so on, and made lunch, the little guy in the top right is a sandwich pick. I played with the cats (who scrunch the rug up like that).
On my feet I used Butter London in Macbeth, it’s a great colour as it is not quite pink or red, and because it is Butter London it doesn’t contain Formaldehyde, Toluene, or Dibutyl phthalate. It’s always much slower getting ready when the cats are around as Ira follows me back and forth all the time and waves her paw at me to get my attention. I don’t know where Beep was while I was taking pictures, probably under the bed.
I left for work at about 7:30am, it was a warm but gloomy day. I arrived early, the first one in so the office was in darkness, I got some porridge and did inbox-to-zero, I am pretty fanatical about inbox-to-zero :) Then when my tea buddies were in at 8am we went for tea. Then work work work. Lunch was a quick sandwich and a walk into town to collect the results of two rolls from my Lomo LCA. The picture of the fountains is my favourite I think. I will post them on here soon. Then work work work. I actually ended up staying about an hour late to get something big done. I went to collect Gloria who was parked next to a tandem. Then off home.
I took a detour to cycle along the Thames, I’m not a huge fan of that route as there always seems to be quite a lot of dodgy business going on around there but it’s lovely to see the water and a change of route is always nice. To cross back over the water I have to wheel Gloria over Iffley Lock. Then it’s just a short ride to home through a park. Two days a week we try to really limit the amount of time we are working on projects in the evenings to only about an hour as otherwise it feels like endless working even if it is on fun stuff. This night was one of those nights so after dinner (sausage and veg) we hung out and watched Iron Man 2 which I thought was a bit rubbish, I also did my ironing which is a pretty rare occurrence. Then about 11:30pm-ish I went to bed. The end.
Now, wasn’t that exciting! :)
