Way back when,
Janssen did one of her "
day in the life" posts, and I told her that I loved reading them. She responded that she'd like to read one about my day, after which I told her it would be super boring and full of Excel spreadsheets. Lying through her teeth, I'm sure, Janssen said she'd still read it. Many moons later, I finally got my act together, and Janssen, this is for you. Prepared to be very, very bored:
7:10 - Alarm goes off to
this song. I set it this early thinking I'd get up and run. Ha! I get back in bed, and for the first time in
ages, I snuggle with Spencer and go back to sleep. (that's not a joke - I'm not much of a cuddler. he even remarked about the rareness of the snuggle.)
7:53 - I finally get out of bed and get ready for work. I shower (washing my hair and shaving my legs!), boil a couple of eggs for lunch, dress, put on makeup, etc. I don't actually do that much; I'm just the slowest person ever when it comes to getting ready for the day.
8:43 - Head to the 6 train, and take it to work.
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| The building where I spend most of my days. |
9:02 - Arrive at my desk on the 19th floor, sign in to my computer, and send a couple of emails. (See that? 20 minutes from door to desk. Not too shabby)
9:10 - Get breakfast and water from the kitchen while chatting with my friend/coworker, Kim.
9:15 - Sit back down at my desk, take a bite of my
cereal, and realize that the milk rotten. Toss it out and munch on a pack of
Emerald's breakfast to-go instead.
9:20 - 12:30 - Finish my work on closing April's books. This is done by doing a million recons and using a million and one Excel spreadsheets. Specifically, I reconcile the marks, post the month-end marks, discuss some discrepancies between the general ledger (GL) and various spreadsheets, make a multitude of GL entries to fix said discrepancies, reconcile the Asset Data Dump to the EOM report and Balance Sheet, reconcile the daily cash in TPG and then post the cash on our GL, post the MBS, Swap, and UST marks, make adjusting entries on those, and then make sure the various data dumps tie back to our balance sheet. I also ran the Balance Sheet, EOM report, and Income Statement a thousand times on FRx. It was an unusually busy morning, and my head was thumping by the end.
12:35 - 12:45 - Step outside for a quick bit of (not really) fresh air while chatting with Kim and munching on an apple.
12:45 - 1:35 - Eat lunch in the kitchen with Adis, Kim, Khalil, Chi, and Ginny. Lunch consists of a hard-boiled egg, grape tomatoes, almonds, and a homemade green juice (cucumber/celery/apple/lemon).
1:35 - 4:40 - Generate the consolidated Income Statement as of 4/30/13 (which required a million more spreadsheets and running reports on FRx). Do the Accrued Interest Recon for March and April, start the swap-hedge effectiveness file for April, start the documents for a new swap we purchased, and file some past month's month-end recons. (Again, my day was abnormally full. Generally, some g-chatting makes it way into my day.) At 4, I ate another hard-boiled egg and some original Popchips.
4:45 - 5:15 - Attack my personal inbox for the first time in days. Shudder at it all. Delete a bunch and reply to a few. Read a couple of blog posts, and go onto Twitter for the first time today.
5:15 - Head out to the
Manhattan temple by walking up on 5th, along Central Park South, and then up Central Park West. I pass by the banana stand again! But once more, the line was absurdly long and not worth the banana I could easily make myself. This is all done while listening to
Bossypants (a
reread. Tina Fey reads it herself! I love her but she does use some foul language so listen with caution).
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| From Monday. And I will have you know that there was NOT money in the banana stand. I checked. |
5:50 - 8:20 - Volunteer at the office of the Manhattan temple and spend the time answering phones, scheduling appointments, and reading
General Conference talks. And eating a slice of homemade carrot cake! Boom! I do this every second and fourth Tuesday. I took over a
Kaitlyn's shift as a way to keep myself busy while Spencer works freakishly late hours. Other things I find to occupy my time are shopping (grocery and otherwise), cooking, cleaning, exercising (hah!...sure, I do...), hanging out with friends, reading, working if I'm unlucky, and oh yeah, blogging.
8:20 - 9:00 - Take the 1 train up to 86th, transfer to the 86th crosstown bus, get off at Lex, and then walk the few blocks home, again all while listening to Bossypants.
9:00 - 10:06 - Sort mail, put away
Blue Apron delivery, and cook dinner (Roasted Cornish hens with baked potatoes and spring vegetables. I got a free week of Blue Apron from a friend, and then they sneakily sent me another delivery when I thought I had cancelled, leaving me stuck with paying for a week. Curse them and their delicious food that comes in way too much packaging and costs more than we normally pay for groceries!) All this occurred while New Girl and The Mindy Project played in the background.
10:06 - Sit down with dinner and turn on
Like Crazy.
10:14 - Turn off Like Crazy (too boring) and switch to
The Decoy Bride, even though I had watched it the night before. Why? Because David Tennant, that's why.
10:30 - 11:00 - Put away leftovers, do the dishes (all handwash. I've never had a dishwasher since I've been married), and clean up the kitchen.
11:00 - Midnight - Type up this post while finishing The Decoy Bride and then listening to Bossypants again.
12:05 - 12:25 - Brush teeth, wash face, say my evening prayer, and do other little things to get ready for bed and for the next day, including tidying up the bedroom. Because the best time to make your bed is right before you get in it, right?
12:26 - Lights out. Spencer hadn't come home yet (and still has yet to go home, poor guy), so I sleep spread-eagle in the middle of the bed. It's the little things, ya know?
Footnotes: I had to finish this post the following day because my ESP has been off-kilter lately. Also, don't forget about the
giveaway! Even I need sunglasses now, and I see the sun maybe .00005 minutes a day.