A Day In The Life

Hi Friends!

I’ve been meaning to do one of these posts for a while now, as I’ve gotten several requests, but I always seem to forget to take pictures. Plus, every day is different for me so it’s hard to capture exactly what it is that I do all day in just one post. But this week I got my act together and snapped a few pics and figured I’d do my best to give you a glimpse into my day.

Here we go:

12:00am – bed (usually I’m falling asleep anywhere from 11pm – midnight.

2:ooam & 3:30am – up to pee – blame the baby

5:15- Up to feed the animals and let the dogs out. I also have a bad habit of checking my email at this time, which I know I shouldn’t do. Hubby is a sound sleeper and can sleep through the animals getting restless and wanting to be fed. I’m a light sleeper and it’s easier for me to just get up and feed them then fight them on it. Usually I don’t have much trouble falling back to sleep, but it’s not unusual for me to be up for 30-45 minutes feeding them, answering emails and tweets, etc. If I have a super busy day ahead with appointments, etc, I often just get up and start working at this point and try to squeeze in a nap in the afternoon because I’m much more productive in the morning. However, if it’s a fairly normal week, I”ll go back to bed.

7:05- Alarm goes off and I get up and eat breakfast.

7:15- Walk to the “office” – ie 10 steps from the kitchen.

7:15 – 8:15 – Read and respond to emails, read blogs, schedule social media posts for my blog and to share the posts of others. This is a never-ending task and I do it pretty much all day long, but I try to get a relatively big chunk out of the way in the morning so when I check in throughout the day it doesn’t take as much time.

8:15- 9:15 – Daily tasks for Regan. I work 15 hours a week for Regan as a Nutrition Communications Coordinator. This involves A LOT of different things- social media work, projects for clients, recipe development and photography, organizing sponsored campaigns for the Healthy Aperture blogger network and Recipe Redux, writing blog posts and roundups etc. There are some things I do every day and then I tackle other projects as they come. I’ll be taking 6 weeks off from this part of my job when baby comes so I’ve been working to train the girl who will be filling in for me. It wasn’t until I had to put together a procedure manual a few weeks ago that I realized what a wide variety of things I do!

9:15-10:30 – Moderate images for Healthy Aperture. I spend time doing this every day. This is usually interspersed with social media responses and scheduling, answering email, etc.

10:30 – Snack time. I’ll eat a muffin, throw the ball for Tucker a few times, stretch my legs, put medicine in Abner’s ears, empty the dishwasher, etc.

11:00 – 11:45 – I made a rare, mid-week trip to the grocery store to get some things I needed for a few upcoming blog posts. Usually I try to get everything I need when we shop on the weekends, unless it’s for a freelance project where I need everything on a separate receipt, in which case I will go during the week because it’s easier to keep things separate. After running to the store I came home and started working on a few recipes. If I didn’t have to run to the store, this time would likely be filled with projects for Regan, freelance work, etc.

{recycled photo but typical lunch spread for us}

11:45 – 12:45 – Lunch and finalizing the stuff I was cooking. If I’m not cooking a recipe, I usually take about a 30 minute lunch. Hubby comes home and we eat and do the crossword puzzle together.

12:45 – 1:15 – Photograph one of the recipes I was working on.

1:15- 3:30 – More general work time. Freelance projects, Regan projects and I work on getting posts written, photographed and scheduled for my own blog , answer more emails, blog comments and social media stuff and organize/plan ahead etc with my editorial calendar. I also do some work for Holley when she needs me so this time could be filled with projects for her- like this social media presentation I helped her put together this week.

3:30- Feed the animals, head out with the dogs for our daily walk and grab an afternoon snack.

4:15- 5:45 – Several days a week this is when I head to Crossfit. I go to a class that runs from 4:30-5:30 and try to make it 3-4 days a week. If it’s a rest day, I usually take a nap (baby makes me tired!)

6:00 – 8:00 – Post-crossfit snack, shower, spend time with hubby, play with the dogs, read for fun, more emails and social media stuff.

8:00 – 8:30 – Dinner.

8:30 – 11 – what I try to do- watch TV/lounge around/play on Pinterest etc…what sometimes ends up happening: I work more- whether it’s blogging, answering emails, doing some recipe development. I’ve gotten much better about sticking to “work hours” than I was when I first started working from home, but sometimes stuff still spills over into evening hours, especially lately since we’ve had a lot of doctor’s appointments, etc to fit in during the day.

Hubby and I also take the boys on a walk together. Tucker knows it’s time when he sees us start putting on our socks. Making the “wanna go for a walk” announcement is a big entertaining production every night.

11:00 – 12:00 – read in bed and go to sleep.

Repeat.

So there you have it! A glimpse into my day to day life currently. I’ll have to do another one of these once baby gets here

Enjoy!
–Lindsay–