A day in the life of Jen

Wednesday July 11th, 2012

My alarm went off at 5:30am, which is actually closer to 5:25am because I've accidentally changed the clock time instead of the alarm time and was too lazy to set the clock time back a few minutes. I used to get up at 5:15am (which is really 5:10am) but they switched my schedule at work. I used to work 9 hour days so I could get every other Friday off but I'm back on 8 hour days without any Fridays off.

I always weigh myself before I get in the shower.  It's the most consistent I'm going to get because my stomach is empty, I haven't eaten anything, and clothes can also change the weight depending on how heavy they are. I took a shower, blow dried my hair, fed Tigger, kissed Dave goodbye (he was still in bed sleeping) and was out the door by 5:50am (real time, not alarm clock time).

My drive in usually takes about 35 minutes. I leave this early in the morning so I can avoid traffic. One of my least favorites part of every day is the drive. I don't really care for driving too much.

I got to work around 6:25 by the time I parked and walked up to my desk. I aim for 6:30am so that was good timing. :) Right now I'm working on testing for our AP1000 plant being built in China. I have been learning and revising a series of test datasheets based on requirement/design changes. I'm actually done with the revisions and waiting for someone to review them and give me comments so I'm in a bit of a lull. I use that time to catch up on other stuff. I'm still learning how AP1000 does testing- I've only been working on this for a few months now. I also can catch up on training if there's a lull in other work, and I cleaned up my datasheets to make them look "prettier." (Next week I will be on the floor doing dry run testing and the following week I should be on the test floor performing the formal testing and recording the results.  During dry run testing I'll work some kinks out.)

For lunch, I met a coworker at DiBella's, a sub place.

I had training in the afternoon in a different building- headquarters. It's about 10 minutes or so from the building I usually work in. The training was scheduled from 1-4:30.

My training ran a little late and I left the building at 4:45. It took an hour to get home (slow traffic and stuff) so I was home at 5:45. We have practice most Wednesdays so Dave and I try to clean up downstairs where we practice and eat a quick dinner. Today we didn't have enough time to really cook anything so we had hot pockets. Dinner of champions! ;) While we waited for everyone to show up, Dave finished a True Blood he had on DVR and I finished a book I had been reading. Blech I do not like True Blood because of the violence. I don't generally like anything with vampires if it's even remotely bloody.

We had practice (our worship band) from 7-9, and came up with a list of songs for our next service, which is about a month away. We ran through the songs; some were new so we had a lot of me writing and erasing what we were going to do in the song. I still need music; I've never been good at improvising or anything like that. But when the music doesn't fit the way we're going to play, it can get confusing!

Since I get up early I always try to get to bed by 10pm. After practice we ended up watching an X Files episode in bed before falling asleep. Well, when we do that I tend to fall asleep sometime during the episode and never see the ending.

I just picked a random day to write about but this is pretty typical and why sometimes I just don't blog. If I wrote about what I did on a daily/weekly basis it would get monotonous. Dave and I kind of have a routine and it just seems like we're somehow always busy!