** Wednesday NWQOTD 12/9/09**

Every morning when I wake up I find myself wishing my life wasn't such a boring routine. I feel like I need to do something to liven things up a bit!

What is a normal work week like for you? What do you do to liven things up?


Mon-Fri I am up by 7am at work by 8:30am and get home around 6:30pm. If its a tuesday I am in class until 10pm . When I get home from work I either watch tv or do homework, then I usually pass out completely exhausted by 11pm. I rarely go out during the week anymore. At my old job everyone would go out all the time, but here everyone is so lame!

While I am at work I usually just turn up my ipod really loud and ignore everyone.. (i really do not like the group I am in at the moment).

I am thinking of perhaps taking yoga on thursday nights and goig to the gym more just to snap out of this routine of boredom I have going on...At work I am going to a meeting later this month to find out more information on a different gorup/program they offer and hoping to apply and get accepted.

My normal week is wakeup at 5:30AM to be at work by 6:30AM. I get out between 2:30 - 4:30PM depending on mtgs and such...I go home and either study for the PE or just watch TV. I enjoy relaxing since I just finished my masters and was either in school or doing hw for school. We never go out during the week...DH is getting his MBA so he is either tired or in class. I dont mind at all. I have been cooking on friday nights for us so its like date night. The weekend is usually relaxing time and then we go out on saturday nights..sunday is FOOTBALL time when its the season. I have to get back to the gym cause I gained a ton of weight since the wedding and I am paying the monthly dues for nothing. I know its a routine but life is a pretty much a routine when you have a job.

To liven it up.... I cant think of anything. We just chill and talk...I dont think there is anything wrong so need to liven it up for us. We do travel so that changes things up.

Every day I wake up at 6:15 and do crunches for half an hour while sleepily watching DVRed shows. I leave for work at 7:45, then work from 8:30 – 4:30 every day and on Mondays and Thursdays come home, veg out, sometimes force myself to go on the treadmill and relax with DH.

Tuesdays and Wednesdays I work at my second job from 6-8, so those nights I get home around 8:30, eat a quick dinner and watch an hour or two of TV.

My week days are borrrrring.

My normal work week isn't too exciting. Monday, Tuesday and Friday I wake up at 5:50 because there's no alternate side parking. Wednesday and Thursday I wake up at 5:40 since there is. Every Friday morning I treat myself to coffee and an everything bagel with cream cheese from Dunkin Donuts...sometimes it's the only thing keeping me motivated all week to get to Friday.

School starts at 8:00 but I always get here by 7:00 just to get the day started early. Monday I get out of school (work) at 2:58. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday I get out at 4:50 since I work an afterschool program. Friday is my early day - I get out at 2:20.

Then it's home to rush rush rush - make dinner, clean up, do laundry, walk and play with the dog. Go to sleep and wake up and do it all again!

M-F i wake up between 5:45 and 6:15 lol work 7:30 till 4:00. Mondays and Wednesdays I work my second job from 6-10! come home and watch tv for a few...on Tuesdays, Thrusdays and fridays i just kinda hang out after work, cook dinner, run around a little with the hubby...

saturdays i also work my second job from 7-1! i come home at 1 clean the apt, and cook dinner (i really am starting to hate saturdays cuz i dont sit down and relax at all!

Sunday is relax day! only day i have off!!! and so does DH, for the most part we sleep late, cook breakfast, and watch tv all day! i usually nap too! but lots of the times, my mom wants us over for dinner and plus i gotta do laundry so we wind up going there!!

not much relaxing time for me!

A normal week for me is I get up at 7am M-F to be in at work at 8:30..I usually get home at 5:15 pending on how my work day goes.

I have dinner with my husband and a few times a week with his side of the family..since we all live so close. In bed by 12..Gotta watch my Friends on Chanel 11!! All to do it all over again the next morning!

On the weekand I usually see friends and my parents If I can. Lately I have been trying to do hoilday shopping but that hasn't been going so well..lol If Dh is off we usually spend some time together and go out to dinner on Saturday night. Dh works nights and has a rotating schedule so sometimes it's very tough for me when he works the weekands..and I am stuck in the house by myself..the friends I have ****..they are always 'too busy' for me..I've lost 2 friends over idiotic tihngs on their part. There is only one friend that has stood by me through everything..But all the others are ***! Okay I'll stop venting! All the 08 brides knows what happened during the planning stages of my wedding when my so called BFF did not want to participate in the anything of the wedding and I cut her! Okay I better stop venting before this turns into a novel!!

I dont have a normal week. I work from home so I start when I feel like it. I do go into the city on Thursdays and some weeks a few other days for meetings.

Because I work from home and basically my own schedule I can go to the gym when I want, do xmas shopping...whatever....

It is fun some weeks but others I wish I got out of the house more.

My normal work week is up at 8AM, work by 9 (usually 9:15 ), lonnnng boring day of meetings, emails and annoying ppl. Out of work by 5 or 6 (if I'm lucky, last night I was here til 8!!!). Then I come home to DH, have dinner, and we catch up on tv and lay in bed together. To livin things up, I'll sometimes go for drinks with friends, or just do dinner at a friend's apartment, but not too often during the week because I am usually so tired. To livin things up at home...a nice big glass of wine (or two...)

I feel the same way as you, Jenny. I feel like life has been so boring lately. I am thining about going back to school to get my Masters in education, but I have to wait til DH gets a job first!

Normal week M-F get up at 6:30 am; lay in bed watching TV until about 7am. Leave by 8am for work. Get home 6:30ish. Monday nights I have school so I'm not home until 10pm or after. Tuesday nights I go to pilates. W-F I go home after work cook dinner and chill with DH. Saturday mornings I go to the gym come home clean; shower; cook dinner. Sundays I usually do homework alllllll day long (so glad school is almost over ). I see my family alot and try to see my friends as often as possible.

For me I wake up between 7:45-8am M-F depending on if I am washing my hair that day or not...lol. I leave for work by 8:45a to get there at 9am. I am usually home between 5:15-5:30pm. I work really close to home so a lot of times I run errands during my lunch break.

When I get home I usually cook dinner and hang out with DH and my doggie. Some nights we go out to dinner and do a little shopping. Monday nights we have people over for MNF. I am usually in bed by 10pm but asleep anywhere between 11pm-12am.

On the weekends DH and I are usually up by 8am because we are both early risers. We either go to breakfast and run errands or we stay home and have coffee and watch HGTV and then piddle around the house. Sunday is Football day...so I'll leave DH home to watch Football while I go grocery shopping or run errands.

I actually am in love with our routine because there's a good amount of variety.

I wake up at 5.30 to make breakfast for us and watch Bloomberg Financial. and leave by 7, at work by 7.30. DH has a 5 min. commute and starts at 9 so he wakes up at 8.15 to walk the dog, eat breakfast and got o work.

Evenings we get home and work out or go to karate a few times a week followed by dinner together. We always have dinner together unless one or both of us goes to happy hour with friends- this happens every other week.

I love when we watch our DVR shows during dinner, once a week we don't have the TV on and just put on music, light candles and talk.

On weekends we go out on a date, hang with our parents and go to friends parties. We go to Karate Saturday mornings. I love our life right now.

Normal workweek for me WAS wake up at 8.15, eat breakfast, get dressed, leave for work at 9 oops and be to work by 9.15, be home by 5.30, eat dinner, putz on computer all night long, shower, sleep.

NOW my workweek is wake up around 7.15, make our lunches, breakfasts, get dressed, leave by 8.40, arrive to work, get home around 5.40 or go grocery shopping first, wash the dishes, straighten up, eventually cook dinner if I ever have a working stove/oven, more dishes/go to FIL's for laundry, some computer/tv, shower, bed. I can see it getting to be a rut really fast!

When we were taking dance lessons last month I enjoyed it, and I'd like to continue, or at least go to the Zumba program they had, but we'll see what happens and what time allows for. Once the Spring comes we're definitely going to take lots of walks/jogs around the neighborhood or play tennis or something.

ugh well i only work 3 days now, so on those days im up at 5, out of the house by 630, to stop at 711 to get myself my daily needs then im at work by 7 till about 730. When i get home i shower, and put my Pjs on and either facebook it or go in bed and watch some TV

on the days i have off, im sleeping in till at least 10am, then just sitting around doing nothing, im a bum! now that its xmas time im doing alot of xmas stuff, but i really need to find something to do on my time off ha ha ha

I wake up around noon....hang out with DH (he makes breakfast, we watch TV, we jog, or play video games)

I go to work by 3:30pm, then depending on the day I get out between 5 and 8:30pm.

Sometimes DH is home or sometimes he is at work (he only works 2 days a week in the city).

If he is home we go out to dinner, the movies, shopping, or the city.
If he isn't home I stay here and watch TV, movies, facebook, LIW, or get stuff done.

I go to bed sometime between 2:30am and 4:00am and if DH was working he will come home around those times so sometimes we watch TV together as we fall asleep.

Well I am currently unemployed & pregnant so my schedule is kinda loopy. Some days I am exhausted from the pregnancy & have to drag my butt out of bed, others I wake at the crack of dawn when DH leaves for work. I do laundry, clean, food shop, walk the dog, exercise, make dinner, etc.. This is the first year I haven't had to work a butt load during the holidays so that is strange. I am basically a 50's housewife until the baby comes. Then I am sure it will be feed, burp, change repeat 24/7. I am looking forward to that rut.

My schedule is pretty boring. I get up around 6 or 6 30 depending on the day and if i have before school chorus rehearsals to teach. On Tuesdays and Thursdays I teach after school lessons and everyday after work and lessons I go to the gym. Somtimes I do weights and cardio, some day sjust cardio. I am usually at the gym for an hour and a half or two hours. Then I come home and get dinner ready. We cook everything in advance on the weekends so I come home and weigh everything out (yes, we weigh our food...we are very nutrition/fitness oriented) and have it ready so that when DH gets home we can eat and watch our tv shows together. We then go to bed around 9:30-10pm. We never go out during the week...we are both too exhausted and just like to spend time together at home.
We both need our gym time to break up the monotony of work and to keep us sane! As for other things, I am looking into joining some musical groups in the evening to give myself some creativity!

Well my schedule is not boring but sometimes I wish it was! i train teachers so every week I have a training I travel to another state to do it. . so my week is go to airport, drive. . usually train/coach/observe for 2-3 days, fly back home. .when I'm staying in hotels I work out, watch tv, walk around if there is anything to see (which usually there isn't) then just work from home so do reports etc. . weeks I don't have trainings I don't do much work related - just paperwork, reports etc. . when I am home I go to the gym, yoga, watch tv, hang out with friends, go shopping etc. . right now DH is out nights a lot bc he's finishing up his masters so we don't get to spend a lot of evenings at home - sometimes I also work for a theater I volunteer for

I am definitely a person that needs a routine, but sometimes I hate it! Especially since I'm up at 5 every day to be at work by 7 (I have an hour drive). I'm usually out around 4, except Mondays when I try to sneak out at 3 and Fridays when I'm there till around 5. After my hour drive back home I'm ready to collapse so I usually check my email and relax with DH for a while. Then it's dinner, cleaning, and watching a little tv before getting ready to do it all over again and getting to bed at about 10.

On the weekends, we love to sleep in, watch tv, make breakfast. Then it's the supermarket, cleaning, laundry. We're alway doing some project around the house. Visiting family or friends. On Sundays, I like to stay in and I try to cook a few meals I can put away for those busy weekdays.

M-F I wake up at 4:30, shower, eat breakfast, try to get a wash done and leave for work....i am home by 3ish on a good day, clean up, get dinner ready by 5ish and just relax until 9ish and then i go to sleep.

We try to go out to dinner together during the week to add something new to the routine....I use to go to yoga twice a week but stopped right before the wedding and I just haven't gotten the motivation to go back.

I wake up at 6 with DH, although I'll admit that sometimes I do go back to sleep for a little while. I work from home so I make my own schedule. I split my time between work, school (2nd bachelors w?credit overload), cooking, cleaning, shopping, dog, bill pay, laundry, volunteer work, etc. DH doesn't have a teacher's schedule at all, most nights he gets home late and often he is busy with work 'stuff' on weekends.

My big thing is that I keep trying to get myself to the gym more often than I have been lately. It's so easy to get bogged down with everything here that I always push away time for me.