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A Day in the Sqwook Life
Jul. 22nd, 2010 01:55 pmOtterkin wondered what my new "routine" is out in Arizona. Excellent question!
Weekdays:
4:30am: Puck gets restless & often starts meowing, because it's pre-dawn, and who knows, his little cat-senses are tingling.
5:30am: B gets up & makes some espresso, then comes upstairs & goes outside on the upstairs back porch to watch the sunrise. It's a beautiful porch.
6:30am: Not knowing what time it is, I wake up with sunlight streaming in everywhere, have a momentary feeling where I'm afraid that I've slept until 10am, and then the clock tells me that it's still early. I get up. (It's too bright not to, really.)
Morning: Make some chai on the stove, spend too much time on the internet, take a shower.
8-11:00 am -ish: Until August 1, I'm picking, packing, & shipping the Deva Designs orders from the warehouse, a couple blocks away. I figure it's a great way to get to know standard procedures (plus all the inevitable exceptions). After August 1, B may take on this responsibility. I'll still go to the warehouse in the morning because until we figure out something different, somebody has to be there when UPS comes around 10:30 am to pick up the shipments, and anyway there's always hands-on work that needs to be done bagging-and-tagging pieces so that they are ready to ship. There's a ton more bagging-and-tagging than I originally thought there would be.
Noon: Lunch at home. Lately, Ezekiel sprouted wraps with hummus and lots of kinds of sprouts.
After lunch until 5pm: Other stuff. Lately, this has been getting things ready logistically to take over the business. Sometimes it involves a bit too much random schminternetting. After August 1, my primary task is to take customer calls & orders, & get invoices ready to be packed & shipped the next day. Plus whatever marketing, bookkeeping, etc. My desk is set up in the downstairs guest room where you could stay if you came to visit!
At some point: Because the Whole-Foods-But-Way-Smaller grocery store is a stone's throw away, walk to the store to get whatever we ran out of for lunch and/or pick up meat for dinner. We've been going almost every day & just getting what we need for that day.
5 or 6pm: Make dinner. Lately, soft tacos with Ezekiel wraps, refried beans, a bit of cheese, tomato, sprouts, cooked cabbage & onion, and perhaps another protein.
Afternoon: Well, it does seem to be true: Monsoons come in the afternoon during July-August. We don't always get rain here, though, because it's very localized. The clouds are almost always doing interesting things. (Though right now today it has more of the monolithic grey going on; I don't think it's that common, though.)
After dinner: Watching movies usually! We're partial to new-Who from Nine on; Mythbusters; random Netflix movies. We watched Bend It Like Beckham last night, and while it's not the deepest movie ever, it's fun. We also recently watched the Benjamin Button movie & I don't recommend it.
9 or 10pm: Bedtime. Right now we're 3 hours different from Michigan. (In the winter it's 2 hours because Arizona doesn't switch.)
Saturdays: The main thing is getting onto a trail hopefully by 9am.
Sundays: Getting to the Farmer's Market in Flagstaff hopefully by 9am, through the amazing Oak Creek Canyon. Often with a stop for coffee and/or breakfast burritos at Indian Gardens.
I hoped would be routine but isn't yet:
1. Going to Red Rock Crossing in the morning. The annual pass program is not available again until January, long bureaucratic stupid story, so the only way to get in is $10/day no re-entry, or $15/week. $15/week isn't really that bad, but I guess the situation was annoying enough to us that we have to do it that way that I haven't been purchasing the weekly pass. Also I hadn't realized that there is NO parking outside the gate, and the gate doesn't open until 8 or 9 and I'd like to be doing the productive part of my day by then. But hm... river meditations... worth continuing to ponder.
2. Exercise. There's a Snap Fitness we may join (me for aerobics classes, B for weight training/ treadmills etc). Also a morning walk would probably be in order. Definitely worth figuring out.
3. More porch-sitting. It's okay to sit on the porch! It's okay to take a leisurely bath! Internetting is not actually as relaxing as your brain tells you it is!
So that's the scoop.
Weekdays:
4:30am: Puck gets restless & often starts meowing, because it's pre-dawn, and who knows, his little cat-senses are tingling.
5:30am: B gets up & makes some espresso, then comes upstairs & goes outside on the upstairs back porch to watch the sunrise. It's a beautiful porch.
6:30am: Not knowing what time it is, I wake up with sunlight streaming in everywhere, have a momentary feeling where I'm afraid that I've slept until 10am, and then the clock tells me that it's still early. I get up. (It's too bright not to, really.)
Morning: Make some chai on the stove, spend too much time on the internet, take a shower.
8-11:00 am -ish: Until August 1, I'm picking, packing, & shipping the Deva Designs orders from the warehouse, a couple blocks away. I figure it's a great way to get to know standard procedures (plus all the inevitable exceptions). After August 1, B may take on this responsibility. I'll still go to the warehouse in the morning because until we figure out something different, somebody has to be there when UPS comes around 10:30 am to pick up the shipments, and anyway there's always hands-on work that needs to be done bagging-and-tagging pieces so that they are ready to ship. There's a ton more bagging-and-tagging than I originally thought there would be.
Noon: Lunch at home. Lately, Ezekiel sprouted wraps with hummus and lots of kinds of sprouts.
After lunch until 5pm: Other stuff. Lately, this has been getting things ready logistically to take over the business. Sometimes it involves a bit too much random schminternetting. After August 1, my primary task is to take customer calls & orders, & get invoices ready to be packed & shipped the next day. Plus whatever marketing, bookkeeping, etc. My desk is set up in the downstairs guest room where you could stay if you came to visit!
At some point: Because the Whole-Foods-But-Way-Smaller grocery store is a stone's throw away, walk to the store to get whatever we ran out of for lunch and/or pick up meat for dinner. We've been going almost every day & just getting what we need for that day.
5 or 6pm: Make dinner. Lately, soft tacos with Ezekiel wraps, refried beans, a bit of cheese, tomato, sprouts, cooked cabbage & onion, and perhaps another protein.
Afternoon: Well, it does seem to be true: Monsoons come in the afternoon during July-August. We don't always get rain here, though, because it's very localized. The clouds are almost always doing interesting things. (Though right now today it has more of the monolithic grey going on; I don't think it's that common, though.)
After dinner: Watching movies usually! We're partial to new-Who from Nine on; Mythbusters; random Netflix movies. We watched Bend It Like Beckham last night, and while it's not the deepest movie ever, it's fun. We also recently watched the Benjamin Button movie & I don't recommend it.
9 or 10pm: Bedtime. Right now we're 3 hours different from Michigan. (In the winter it's 2 hours because Arizona doesn't switch.)
Saturdays: The main thing is getting onto a trail hopefully by 9am.
Sundays: Getting to the Farmer's Market in Flagstaff hopefully by 9am, through the amazing Oak Creek Canyon. Often with a stop for coffee and/or breakfast burritos at Indian Gardens.
I hoped would be routine but isn't yet:
1. Going to Red Rock Crossing in the morning. The annual pass program is not available again until January, long bureaucratic stupid story, so the only way to get in is $10/day no re-entry, or $15/week. $15/week isn't really that bad, but I guess the situation was annoying enough to us that we have to do it that way that I haven't been purchasing the weekly pass. Also I hadn't realized that there is NO parking outside the gate, and the gate doesn't open until 8 or 9 and I'd like to be doing the productive part of my day by then. But hm... river meditations... worth continuing to ponder.
2. Exercise. There's a Snap Fitness we may join (me for aerobics classes, B for weight training/ treadmills etc). Also a morning walk would probably be in order. Definitely worth figuring out.
3. More porch-sitting. It's okay to sit on the porch! It's okay to take a leisurely bath! Internetting is not actually as relaxing as your brain tells you it is!
So that's the scoop.
