Ideal

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My first day back to work turned out damn close to my ideal day. I decided to keep my morning routine simple, not expect too much of myself so early, so it got off to a good start:

• 6:00, radio came on, lay in bed for half an hour
• 6:35, morning constitutional with National Geographic, then shower, dress and make breakfast
• 7:10, wrote 100 words while eating breakfast of fruit, yogurt and millet cereal with herbal tea
• 7:30, time to spare! browsed FB and LJ
• 7:50, made lunch
• 8:05, left for work, brushed and scraped car, deep breathing exercises for a couple minutes in the car, encountered more than the usual delays including slippery roads, hitting all the red lights, police rerouting traffic for an accident, and finally a kid running across the street too close in front of me (panic attack and more deep breathing)
• 8:40, arrived work, nobody there, started cleaning
• 9:15, left with Les on service calls (yay, I like doing service calls!)
• 11:45, lunch at Thai Sun in Kitchener
• 12:15, more service calls
• 3:00, arrived back at the shop, unloaded the van
• 3:15, let go early! left lunch in fridge at work for tomorrow and picked up a snack at Zehr's
• 3:45, stopped at Speed River Trail north of Guelph and went for a beautiful walk in the snowy woods, voice recorded some thoughts
• 4:45, arrived home, made tea, checked email
• 5:15, transcribed voice recording, got excited some more about the Winter Journal
• 6:30, did two work orders for The Content Authority, including one easy rewrite and a piece about Italian lakes vacations (interesting to research)
• 8:15, quit work and went to put last night's leftovers in the microwave
• 8:20, Danny called, so I talked to him and knitted
• 8:45, turned on the microwave, wound a ball of yarn while waiting
• 9:00, played Catan while eating dinner, had a glass of wine
• 10:15, wrote this
• 10:46, it's bedtime!

Like I said, this is my ideal day.