The life of a father...

[elfs]

• 6:00am: Wake up, wake up Storm. Make breakfast (oatmeal & coffee).
• 6:50am: Out the door to work.
• 7:30am: Settle in to work.
• 2:45pm: Leave to go get Kouryou-chan from school.
• 3:30pm: Arrive at Kouryou-chan's school.
• 3:45pm: Arrive at home. Drop off Kouryou-chan. Turn around to get Storm.
• 4:00pm: Arrive at Storm's school. Immediately head to Dr.'s appointment.
• 4:20pm: Arrive in time for Dr.'s appointment. Fortunately, Dr's office is right near the dance school. She can walk.
• 6:05pm: Pick up Storm from Dance class. Hurtle back down to her school for her choir's Christmas Performance.
• 8:00pm: Actually get home, finally.

So, what's your day like today?

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[whipartist.livejournal.com]

9:00am Crawl reluctantly out of bed, have leisurely breakfast
10:15am Grab a shower, head for the office
11:00am Arrive at office
7:00pm Head to dinner and pub trivia
11:30pm Get home

[mouser.livejournal.com]

Yesterday

6:00am: Wake up, check mail (yep, world still out there)
6:30am: Prep for work - shower, shave, pack lunch.
7:00am: Wake up four year old stepson.
7:10am: Get four year stepson old out of bed. Bathroom, etc.
7:15am: Begin trying to get four year stepson moving.
7:30am: Succeed in stuffing four year stepson into clothes amidst tears and cries of "I don't want to go to the sitters!
7:35am: Drag four year stepson kicking and screaming to truck.
7:35:03am: "I have to go to the bathroom!"
7:35:04am: Begin banging head on truck door.
7:36am: Bathroom+four year stepson.
7:39am: "Did you flush?"
7:40am: Load four year stepson in truck who is suddenly smiles and rainbows.
7:55am: Drop off four year stepson at sitters.
8:05am: Arrive at work.
11:35am: Eat lunch at desk while working.
5:15pm: Leave work.
5:40pm: Frys - not because I need anything, just to take a deep breath without any responsibilities.
5:55pm: Cell call - "Are you hung up at work?"
6:15pm: Arrive home.

[ladyerin.livejournal.com]

12:00 Go to bed
03:00 shove cat off head
07:30 wake up
08:00 read facebook/email
08:30 get out of bed & dress
08:35 brush teeth
08:37 walk down the stairs and open dog crate
08:37:30 let dog outside
08:40 Drop food and water for pets
08:50 wish I had time to make coffee/wish I'd remembered to program pot night before
08:55 back out of drive way, trying to not hit anyone dropping their children off at school.
09:10 wait for train to finish, and noting that I'm again late for work.
09:25 arrive at work
09:30 put brain on hold til lunch time
12:00 go to the store to spend money I don't have for things people don't really need (christmas shopping)
13:00 return to work
13:01 put brain on hold til end of day
16:30 sneak out of work early to go to gym
16:45 Start elliptical (gym is way close to my office)
16:20 Finish Elliptical, Start Treadmill
16:45 Finish Treadmill
16:55 Leave Gym and head home
17:20 Arrive home
17:30 Fix dinner/ Play on 'net
18:00 Call Boy and ask if he is going to pick up Bookshelf found on Craigslist.
18:30 Take Call from Boy asking if the scratches (that I can't actually see) will be ok.
18:55 Help boy bring said bookcase into house and upstairs
19:00 Processed to destroy bedroom in the attempt to clean and organize it.
22:30 Figure I've done enough damage for the day.
22:35 Chase cats out of bathroom so I can shower
22:55 Call other boy and chat
23:45 Crawl into bed

Lather, Rinse, Repeat...With slight variations per day.

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

Yesterday:

0540 POIT! OK, brain awake.
0542 Drag ass out of bed
0547 Pill salad
0549 mess about on Internet
0625ish Breakfast, FSVO
0710 shower
0745 get down to bike, 5 minutes late
0805 Arrive at work, do Mr. Rogers routine
Run around (virtually) like headless chicken all day preparing for outage at 1800
1615 Get note from grandboss; customer is being recalcitrant and won't clear the outage. PPD UFN.
1710 BFO work
1730 Haircut
1750 shop for dinner
1900 Get home

Whee.

[bldrnrpdx.livejournal.com]

3:17 wake up.
4:25 wake up. spray water on cat to quit yowling. tell her, in loud voice, it's not time for breakfast yet and she damn well knows it.
5:13 push cat off bed
5:25 get out of bed, feed cats
5:40 shower, get dressed
6:10 breakfast, do some dishes while breakfast is cooking
7:03 get first bus to work
7:14 get second bus to work
7:25 arrive at work
8:05 go to classroom I serve, find out three of my four kids are absent
9:00 return to my office (across the hall) and do paperwork
10:30 go back to classroom to provide one-on-one service, consults
11:00 lunch
12:10 return to classroom for afternoon kids
1:30 return to office for more paperwork, messages
2:00 pack up for home visit
2:25 get first bus
3:05 get second bus
3:15 get off bus near home visit, 15 minutes early. walk through the neighborhood looking at houses and yards. Notice the weather really isn't too bad, except for the rain on my glasses.
3:30 home visit
4:00 get on bus
4:20 grocery shopping
5:10 get first bus for home
5:25 get second bus for home
5:40 arrive at home, put away groceries, attend to cats, make dinner
6:30 turn on computer, shut brain off.

[gromm.livejournal.com]

Ugh, my week so far has been like this:

7AM: alarm goes off, I hit snooze.
7:05: turn off alarm, groan at the fact that I definitely need at least another half hour of sleep, tell blackberry to wake me up then.
~8:30: realize that I'm already late for work, get out of bed.
9:10: get to work. Eat breakfast there.
9:10-12:00: Constant interruption from work project that theoretically has class 1 priority over everything (deadline Saturday at all cost), but keeps getting pushed to class 2 priority by stupid customer whims.
12:00-12:30: Theoretically my lunch break, except that I work while eating.
12:00-3:00: Somewhat less constant interruption.
4:30: Finally finish today's to-do item. Except on Monday, which got completed at 5.
4:30-4:45: Create LJ entry for what I did today in case I need a reference later. Except on Monday...
4:45: Manually start backup of our Most Critical Database to ensure that some silly automatic process is *not* messing it up. Don't ask.
5:00: Leave work.
5:10: Get home, get mobbed by 4 year old.
5:30: Wife goes to work out at the gym. She'll be back around 7:30 or 8, which means lots of work and angst over trying to cook (and not burn dinner) while the baby shrieks at me and the big boy tries to get my attention, but I don't care because of the tremendous benefits.
5:30-7:30: General chaos. Kids get fed one way or another. Often one at a time.
7:30: Wife gets home, has dinner.
8:00: Blackberry loudly announces that it's time for a certain big boy to get ready for bed. Sometimes the baby nurses and falls asleep around this time.
8:30 or so: Big boy gets under the covers, I read a book to him then play Brickbreaker until he falls asleep.
9:00-11:00: Baby may or may not be awake during this time. If we're lucky, we get lucky.
11:00-1:00: tool around and/or fix that laptop I've been meaning to fix.

Last year around this time it was

[pakraticus.livejournal.com]

4:45 AM Get up, shower, handle critters.
5:30 AM Drive eldest to high school swim practice
5:50 AM Drop off eldest at swim practice
6:00 AM Stumble into coffee shop, VPN into work.
7:00 AM Grab eldest from swim practice
7:10 AM Drop eldest off at school
7:40 AM Arrive at work
3:00 PM Leave work (If I'm lucky)
3:35 PM Arrive home
6:50 PM Take eldest to YMCA swim practice
7:30 PM Arrive home again.
9:00 PM Head back to Y to grab eldest.
9:40 PM back home.
Toss in running eldest or youngest to the quack as needed.
Toss in evening basketball practice for youngest as needed.
Thank &deity she rides the bus most of the way home and her granddad took her home most afternoons

This year.
0500: Yell at eldest to turn off alarm and go to swim practice
0510: Repeat
0520: Repeat and she finally listens
0630: Get up handle dogs and cats.
0715: Let dogs out again, haul 5 gallons of unfrozen water out to the ducks and let them out for the day.
0730: Off to work.
0800: At work.
1615: Leave work (If I'm lucky)
1650: Get home, put ducks in their pen and feed them, let dogs out, feed cats, feed dogs, start dinner.
And I'm not completely avoiding the quack anymore, but now it's just meet the eldest at the quack.
And the youngest, since she's at military boarding school requires no driving around now even though she's involved in a lot more sports.