You know that meme on social media where that guy writes a beautiful post about how much time in a day we spend at work and sleeping and it ends with a beautiful affirmation about how we have so much time between all that to do whatever they want to accomplish. In the end his math is a little off but the point is still there.
Last night while on the way home from a bus trip I had a whole bunch of thoughts running through my head. It was an almost complete breakdown of time and what it means to me. This morning I thought about how I was going to write it all down and got stuck with writers block. So now this is what I am starting this post with to see if it will get me strted. So here it goes putting in the time talking about time…
Monday thru Friday I wake up at the same time to get ready for work. This is about three hours from when I leave for work. Depending on how I feel when I get up I usually do one of two things for the first hour I am awake. Either I watch GMA with my mom or I go downstairs and catch up on shows. Also I always have a book on me. Right now I have three books started, a paperback, a hardback, and an audiobook. Its always good to have a book on you and not have time to read it than it is to have all the time in the world and nothing to read. The second hour I spend mostly making and eating breakfast. The third hour I feel like is just time well wasted when I could be accomplishing so much and barely do anyting before getting ready for work.
Generally, I believe that ten to fifteen minutes early is on time, and if one is just on time, they are late. Going into work every single day this is what I deal with. Cleaning up after everything that occuered the night before so I can do what I need to do to get my opening routine in before customers start coming in. Setting up the iPad to be the correct section chart is my first chore having to do with numbers. Depending on who was on the nught before or worse during the weekend when I don’t work at all, some of the charts can look worse than others. Curretly there are charts from three servers all the way up to ten servers. When looking at the charts for the day I should never see four sections on an eight chart, but I digress. Part of my sidework is to fold kids menus. This also where numbers come into play in my job. The baskets that are put out fit 48 folded menus relatively comfortably. On a day that I am not that strapped for time because of being busy I keep myself busy by making 144 which fills up three baskets. Yes I did that math all in my head and figured out how spacially it fits where I havee room for them and extras. So amid all of my tasks there are to accomplish in my positon I have an average of five and a half hours at work. So here I am once again telling you, my tens of readers, that I have a crappy part time job that will never take me anywhere. As for applying to new jobs that continues to be a struggle. But then again moving on to the point of this post.
After work most days I enjoy going to my local Starbucks. I have a couple of drinks I usually choose from, yes I am that basic. There are baristas there that I have become very friendly with. We talk about our work days and lives in general since we are both in food service we feel each other. Sometimes I sit there and read for a while before I go home for dinner.
Dinner with my mom is usually around 6pm. We watch the news of the day together, both the local and the national. After that, I go upstairs and get ready for bed. Confession time: I take too long and hot showers for anyones own good. Wasting over twenty minutes of my night conemplating all of my life choices as far back as I can recall. Then most night there are shows I like to watch, some by myself and some with mom, and depending on the night there are shows from 8pm to 11pm. Some nights I have none or one and others there are multiple shows on at the same time which are preset to DVR because over the years they have changed days and times. This all leading to most nights going to bed between 10pm and 11pm. It takes forever, it feels like, to fall asleep though.
In summary, while I feel like every second of every day is completely filled, I feel completely and utterly unfullfilled. There are times when I mulitask and seemingly get more done than other times when I am just sitting in my room playing on my phone and listening to music until the very last second. I would love to get back to posting on here more frequently. I really want to get back to working my duct tape crafts again, the whole, original point of this etire blog. So here I am finally finishing this post that I have been thinking about for almost 24 hours while watching hockey and finishing laundry, semiproductive Sunday. What are your plans for your next 24 hours, 7 days, 365 days, 525,600 minutes?
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