A MONDAY IN THE LIFE

I am particpating in a world-wide event tday! A day in the life chronicle with photos as instigated by my fav Mrs. G.

At 6:08 our dog, Hilda, began to bark, Tom yelled at her and she waited until 6:12 to bark again. I got up and let her out. I would be cranky about this but she is always so happy to see me and wags her tail cutely. I heat water for tea and turn on the news, make my fav breakfast (peanut butter toast with honey) and look at the parts of the Sunday paper I haven't read yet.

When Ally's alarm gets so loud I can hear it downstairs, I go up to raise the dead - err - kid. Actually, she has been getting up on her own very nicely lately - but it IS Monday. We get dressed and head off to school. She protested my taking a picture in front of people, then leaned back into the car to approve it. I drove the 10 miles to work, a lovely cool morning, I would have taken pictures of the hills and the sparkly water at Shadow Cliffs Regional Park, but if I am not allowed to use a hand held phone in the car, I figured I shouldn't be taking pictures out the window. Trust me, it was a pretty morning drive.

Suddenly the morning took a turn for the unusual, my "Air Pressure Low" warning light came on. I high tailed it to a service station with air pumps and checked things out - looked ok. I'll let Tom take care of it tonight. This may well be the most exciting thing that will happen today!

I continued on my way and arrived at work at Kyle Design where our slogan is "Put Art in your Cart." We are a web based art studio, selling customizable gifts and home decor. I start out by checking on our weekend orders, aswer e-mails and phone messages and write a blog post on my work related blog called My Art Filled Life.

I have two areas where I spend most of my day. My desk and the packing area. I go back and forth between the two which is nice because I hate to sit all day and I like a lot of variety. I like having a job that isn't sedentary. I make boxes and then pack them full of our products and label them and ship them off to happy customers. I answer the phones and work with our production staff, order stuff and laugh with my co-workers. I like my job. Kyle is a wonderful woman, artist, mom, and friend.

I head home at about 5 and start dinner when I walk in the door. Tonight it is an easy dinner because I have so much salad stuff left over from our Homecoming Dinner (see previous post). Hilda helped me with the dishes and then I sat down to see what other folks had done with their day in the life posts. As usual, I am significantly more wordy than everyone.

I spent an hour or so trying to reduce the pile of ironing on the guest room bed - I watched CNN while I was ironing, got depressed and I came back downstairs to start this post.

The rest of the evening I will read more blogs and try to knock off a few chapters of my book club book. Nothing I like to watch on Monday tv, so I'll toddle off to bed around 10.

Thanks Mrs G for inviting me!