Curious to know what your personal schedules are like

Sorry I did not get to meet you today Thom. You like working nights?

I've, essentially, been working graveyard shift from the age of 18 until present, I've always been a night owl. In regard to gardening, it works out great...I get home from work, water, weed, feed, pick, prune, clean, divide, conquer, win the power ballI(I wish...it's on the to do list)
Then come in, play with the bitches, computer, sleep...
Then, when I wake up I can go back out and do it again.
When it comes to the muggy, sticky, sweltering part of our summers here, I don't envy day/evening shifters at all...I love the schedule for growing...LOVE IT.
I don't need to get up early, I already am.
I don't need to be in the mood, I come home, alert, look at everything with a fresh perspective, that's pretty much it...
I worked as a trainer, at a chain rest. in the area...worked mostly evenings...my garden turned into a weed bed, rodents moved in and got cozy, one of the feral cats had feral kittens in a feral nest in a weed encroached perennial bed...
Then I went back to nights, and everything is niceynicey...
So, in a long convoluted way, yes, I like working night shift!

I love your humor, Thom!

Hey there is NO way an 18 year old is coming out of this body! And I am sure you couldn't pay ANY woman to do that LOL LOL

Hey nothing wrong with babies - they are cute when they aren't crying, spitting up, peeing and pooing for diaper changes, waking up every 2 hours in the middle of the night, projectile puking, or pulling your hair out with that baby death grip. LOL.

I think everyone has a better social life than me. I get excited if there's someone jogging by when I go out for the mail!

teenage grandkids are nice. they save their sullen tantrums for the parents and are old enough to be extremely helpful to their grammy :0) I'm with Dawn...ain't nobody givin' birth to no 18-year-olds!!! so what I would recommend is to have your kids 35-40 years ago LOL

"...I think everyone has a better social life than me. I get excited if there's someone jogging by when I go out for the mail!..."

OMG, that is too funny, lol! I can definitely relate! It reminds me of one day when I was home with the kids when they were little (2 & 4) and it was a particularly rough week and an even rougher day. Most of my friends were still in the workforce and/or still childless, and no neighbors home during the day, as well as my husband working 20 hours a day. That day I really felt the need for adult conversation.

The phone rang and it was the wrong number. I was sooooo close to asking the person if they wanted to talk anyway!

I guess each stage of having kids is different. There are good parts and bad parts to each, but I don't think any stage is better than the other.

I could easily be a night owl. I have to force myself to go to bed by 11:30, even though I'm out the second my head hits the pillow. I love to stay up all night but can't because I'd be dead in a week.

My grandmother used to tell me that the older you got the less sleep you needed. If that's true, I can't wait for the day when I can stay up till 2am and then get up at 6am feeling refreshed and ready to go!

I have not yet noticed that. At 44, I still feel I need 7 - 8 hours pf sleep.

My schedule is built from years of taking care of the family ... no matter what generation it may be.

I am usually up anywhere between 4:30 and 6:30, although I prefer to be up as early as I can. That way, I have an hour or so to myself - (and to talk with you guys)

The teenager's bus comes for her at 6:30, so there's one out the door.

The first grader gets on the bus at 7:45, and Anna gets her going. Anna and Gregg are out of the house by 8 AM.

Little Morgan gets up just after mommy and daddy leave, and it's her and me, doing chores, playing in the garden, learning to walk (her - not me) until about noon. Then she naps and I get the heavier chores done.

3 PM finds the older kids coming home from school and I help with homework and their chores until about 5 PM. Sammi, the teenager, watches Morgan, the little one for an hour while I prepare dinner. Dinner is around 6, and then my 'work' is done for the day!!!

Doesn't my life sound heavenly?

Hope Sammi can manage the homework without you!!

She's actually a very good student. She's got quite a head on her shoulders, even has her future plans all set. The only real choice right now is Harvard or Princeton. She wants to be a lawyer, and then go into politics.

And, she usually has her homework done before she comes home from school. She says that riding the school bus for almost an hour to get home after school is the best study hall.

Oh no! Lawyer? Politician? Say it ain't so!! She has a chance to help mankind - why go to the dark side?!

Because she has a brain!!!!

Exactly my point!!

LOL!
She'll get a kick out of knowing this.

She's quite a remarkable young woman, all in all. And it simply amazes me sometimes how 'on the ball' she is! She's always been very aware, both of herself and her feelings, and of the entire world around her and how she fits into it. I wish I had had half of the drive and determination when I was her age!!

Great to hear. Congratulate her for me! You must be proud.

What about engineering / science? We need more women in the field.

Oh god! I am a basket case after reading that!!! I must be a failure at everything!!! Help!!!

After reading which post??

Any of them!!! Oh gosh and I try sooooooooooo hard!!! I guess we can't be perfect at everything!

You sound like a great Mom to me.

Awwwwwwwwwww thanks. Can I hug you now or later?

Depends on the Aster thread.

There's that old cliche'd saying, "Anyone that plants a garden, plans for the future." So, in my humble opinion, if anyone on here, regardless of social life, or lack of one...busy schedules, to loafers, moms with a herd of children, or those with no children...I'm about to get Hallmarky...If you plant plants, regardless of what they are, you have hope. It's that simple...so PLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL.
Ok...I'm off to read the other posts....
I created a new thread for those ladies at the end of our table for lunch, I took some pics of the rose(s) we talked about, and some of my beds...

Grrrr Victor!!! I have yet to see your aster - so I plead the 5th!

sometimes my day is like this:

I read the news today oh boy
About a lucky man who made the grade
And though the news was rather sad
Well I just had to laugh
I saw the photograph.
He blew his mind out in a car
He didn't notice that the lights had changed
A crowd of people stood and stared
They'd seen his face before
Nobody was really sure
If he was from the House of Lords.

I saw a film today oh boy
The English Army had just won the war
A crowd of people turned away
but I just had to look
Having read the book.
I'd love to turn you on

Woke up, fell out of bed,
Dragged a comb across my head
Found my way downstairs and drank a cup,
And looking up I noticed I was late.
Found my coat and grabbed my hat
Made the bus in seconds flat
Found my way upstairs and had a smoke,
Somebody spoke and I went into a dream

I read the news today oh boy
Four thousand holes in Blackburn, Lancashire
And though the holes were rather small
They had to count them all
Now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall.
I'd love to turn you on

Just saw this thread, and smiled all the way thru.
Up at 5:30, jump in clothes, slap on makeup and try to do something with my hair... and drive 20 miles..work starts at 7
Get off at 4:30 and drive 20 miles home, brain dead.
Flop on the couch for 15-20 min trying to catch my second wind
Look at the mail
Check Daves garden to see if anything exciting is going on
Figure out what's for dinner & cook it
Clean up
Play in the dirt if I have daylight left & the energy
Shower around 9:30 and bed by 10.
My kids are grown thank goodness. I wonder now how working Mom's ever keep their sanity!

I forgot to mention my weekend.
Friday night is Karaoke night. I perform in drag.
Saturday I sleep late, have a pedicure and a cucumber facial, then off to the Mensa meeting.
At night my wife and I compete in ballroom dancing.
On Sunday morning I preach at our mega-chapel, do some gardening and every month a cook a gourmet meal for 24 or so Nobel Prize winners.
It's a bit repetitive, but we are creatures of habit.

LOL... Dave you are too creative!!!!!

Gotta love our Dave!!

Dave...you jogged my memory...
Since being in the nursing field, I get every other weekend off...
So on my every other weekend, fly across the Atlantic to sing with the Vienna Boys Choir...1st chair here, Paul is the pianist.
I thought you looked familiar Dave, didn't recognize you without the foundation, MAC cosmetics, and 4"eyelashes...what was your drag name, um.....I think, wasn't it, "Sara Nader?"
Paul and I babysit for Madonna, and Brangelina's children...depending on what continent they are on...it's a lot of flying...
Then it's home to see if I have come up with the right mold/germ/virus to infect upon my daylilies and daffodils to make a true blue flower...fingers crossed, it may happen.
Then...I try to fit in a Soduko or two, the Wall Street word puzzle, A couple of Jumbles, and a game of bridge with the folks at the nursing home,
And then my stand up act at Caesers in Vegas, wouldn't do Atlantic City, I'm to posh.
But enough about me, what do the rest of you do on your weekends off?

I want to go see Dave in drag!!!

I was very disappointed I wasn't cast in the new version of Hairspray.

Thanks Thom!

Maybe that's why Dawn was surprised at your appearance Dave.

I'm just hoping to become the ex-mayor of NY.

A billionaire one?

No. I was referring to the previous one. He went drag on several occasions. But we digress. Back to Dawn's thread...

He did? Interesting!

Of yes I remember.

I prefer no schedule. Wanna live like Thoreau.

In plays. Maybe on Saturday Night Live.

Victor, Is that why you have the pond?

Could be a subconscious thing. Never called it Walden though.