Day in the Life: Friday Favorites

 I decided to document last Friday for today's Friday Favorites post. I hardly ever document a day in the life anymore now that my boys are grown and mostly on their own. But I knew we had a pretty full day and thought it might be fun.  These are some of my favorite posts to read and I think I did a pretty great job remembering to document and take pictures for the whole day!

5:00 wake up and I allow myself to blog, read emails, etc. until 5:30

5:30 get up, get dressed for the gym, put away my laundry from the night before, make the bed.

5:45 head downstairs to make Alec's lunch (1/2 way though he came to the balcony to tell me he wasn't going to school since he wasn't feeling well-- he's 18 and allowed to make this call himself).  I decided to make a salad, some chicken salad, hard boil some eggs, and cut up all the fruit since we had just done groceries after dinner last night and none of that had been done yet.

I emptied, reloaded, and restarted the dishwasher. 

6:40 I grabbed the trash on my way out the door and headed to the gym to meet my mom. 

I listen to audiobooks when I'm alone in the car

8:00 Once I'm back home from the gym I get cleaned up and changed into my clothes for the day.

8:30 Emptied dishwasher for the second time, checked on Alec-- who was sleeping soundly, ate breakfast and sat down to work on the computer (paying bills and balancing our accounts) while simultaneously helping Evan with any schoolwork he has. 

9:30 Alec finally woke up and I offered to make him breakfast; while cooking his omelet and making toast I found that we had lots of crust pieces lying around in mostly empty bread bags so I used the food processor to make bread crumbs (I keep them in a giant ziploc bag in the freezer for whenever I have a recipe that needs breadcrumbs).  I delivered his breakfast and then put all of Evan's school books away since he was done school for the day; it goes real quick this time of year when we've only got a few subjects to finish up!

10:00 I sat to finish the last two cards I began making yesterday for birthdays we have coming up later in the month.

10:30 we all felt the house shake but after walking around found nothing wrong; we later found out that there was an earthquake in New Jersey that we had felt the aftershocks from.

11:00 worked on the blog a bit; reading, visiting, and commenting on others' as well as responding to comments on my own blog. 

12:00 I sat down to eat lunch and watch the last 1/2 of the final show of Silicon Valley that I fell asleep watching last night. These 6 seasons flew by and I needed to know how it ended!

12:30 Alec asked if I could make him some soup for lunch so I did that and ran a bowl up to him. My husband came home from work since he had taken the afternoon off. 

1:00 I tried on my latest Stitch Fix box that came in and only kept 1 item this time; a pretty white jean jacket. Then I worked on the blog for a bit more getting "all caught up."

2:00 I headed out to pick up some take out dinner for Evan-- we were all heading out later and I offered to pick up food for him that he could eat up for dinner. 

3:00 The rest of us left to head to Foxwood's casino (Alec was feeling better after a shower, a nap, taking allergy meds, etc. And while our general rule has always been that if you are too sick to go to school you are too sick to go to after school activities but, again, he's 18 and headed off the college in the fall so I felt like he was old enough to make the call himself). 

Alec's senior class sold tickets as a fundraiser for bingo and while we had never been we thought it sounded like fun for the over 18 crowd. We took my mother in law with us and met my mom and step-father there. 

4:00 We found our way to the casino and spent 30 minutes finding the bingo hall then went over to the Hard Rock Cafe for dinner. 

5:30 we got in line to get our bingo tickets and sat down in the hall.   Luckily a few people recognized us as newbies and offered to explain how it all works to us.. it's nothing like church bingo I played as a kid!

6:30 The first games started and we had fun even though we didn't win anything. 

8:15 or so we decided we had had enough and it was time to head home (we had about an hours drive and 4 of the 7 of us needed to be up early on Saturday morning).  We had only played 1/2 the games so we gave our sheets of remaining games to the nice ladies near us that had coached us in what to do and wished them luck.

9:30 we arrived home and headed to bed; after I packed Alec a quick lunch for the next day. 

It was a great day!

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