THE TYPICAL DAY

Few friends of mine asked me to write my blog in English so they can read it. So I decided to give it a try. It's been awhile since I wrote anything in English, so bear with me :)

One of my best friends, Špela, has asked me to write about my usual day. To be honest I'm not really that busy. It depends on the day. I guess my busiest day during the week is Tuesday, so I'll describe how Tuesday looks like. Very detailed. 

I normally wake up at 7 in the morning. Time of my alarm depends on Sarah. Whether she has to wash her hair or not. So when I wake up, I go straight into her room, turn the lights on and wake her up. It takes around 15-20 minutes to get her out of bed. Once she finally gets up, I have 15 minutes for myself. The past few weeks I've been reading a lot, so I often read at that time. But first I go through my e-mails and Facebook to see if there's anything new. At 7.40 I go downstairs to the kitchen, take the clean dishes out of the dishwasher, prepare Sarah her breakfast and then "nag" her that we need to go. We are suppose to leave the house at 7.50 but that hardly ever happens. She needs quite a bit of time to prepare herself in the morning. When she's finally ready I go to the car, heat it up and drive her to the bus stop. The bus stop is only 2 minutes away. When I come back, I prepare Daniel's lunch. This means preparing two sandwiches, water in water bottle, granola bar and if we have it, also some fruit. I put everything in the lunch box. Daniel comes down 5-10 minutes later so I have time to watch telly. I always watch Top Gear in the morning. Daniel used to switch the program to some Disney show, but now he just watches it with me. Well until Desmond comes down. While we watch Top Gear, Daniel has his breakfast - cereal. At 8.25 I try to get Daniel to brush his teeth and ready to go to school. We normally leave the house at 8.35. His school is 5 minutes of driving away. Depends on the traffic. 

When I come back, I have my breakfast. Also cereal. The thing that I do not understand is how family here eats cereal with cold milk. I always heat the milk. Of course I watch Top Gear some more while I have my breakfast. I've seen all the episodes hundred of times before, but I still absolutely love this show. Can't wait for the new season! After breakfast I prepare dirty clothes for laundry. There are so many dirty clothes on Tuesdays that I have to do it 4 times! Thank God for tumble dryer. Then I read a little bit, so my stomach can relax. Before 10 o'clock I go for a run. I started jogging 3 to 4 times per week just a month ago. Decided I need to do some exercise and not just eat all the time. I don't run long. Just 15-20 minutes. But it's enough. After all I am not a fan of jogging. Always found it boring. Even with my earphones in and music on, it's a bit boring. When I come back, the first laundry is usually done. Most of the clothes can go into tumble dryer, but not all. The ones that should not go in, I put them on the radiators. After a quick shower I go back to reading. Yes, I've become quite a book-worm. Can't help it. Between 12 and 1 o'clock I have my lunch. I normally eat toast with butter and jam or a sandwich. I sometimes make Tjaša's zucchini burgers. Absolutely love them! After lunch I read some more or watch a TV show. I also need to iron kids clothes on Tuesday. They wear school uniform, which means nice white shirts for both of them, Sarah wears skirts so that doesn't need to be ironed, but Daniel's trousers do. I also started ito iron some of my clothes. Just recently I bought two blouses. At 15.10 I leave the house and pick up Daniel from school. Once we're home, I prepare him a snack that is more or less second lunch. He always wants two sandwiches. Daniel often invites one of his friends over and they always end up playing x-box. If his friends don't come over, then I play x-box with him. I have become very good at playing Call of Duty and Forza. But even when we don't play multiplayer, I have to watch him play whatever game he's playing. Just recently he got a video game called Worms. I think most of you will know what game that is. I'm enjoying it tremendeously. I loved the game when I was younger. Of course it has changed a bit in the past few years, but the noise that worms make is still the same! And most of the guns (remember donkey or sheep or hallelujah bomb?) 

Daniel takes swimming lessons every Tuesday. He goes to Queensferry High Recreation Centre, which is very close to his school. I drive him there few minutes before 6 o'clock. Last week I stayed there and watched his lesson, but I usually go back home and pick him up one hour later. During his swimming lessons Desmond and Sarah come home from work/school. Desmond then starts preparing dinner while Sarah normally sits behind piano and plays some Christmas song and sings. Pamela works really hard and long so she comes home quite late. Between 7 and 8 o'clock. At 19.15 I go and pick up Daniel and when we come home we have our dinner. I'm still getting used to this late dinners and I've been here almost five months now. But it's understandable that we wait for Pamela to come home from work. After dinner I usually go to my room and read/watch TV show, while Daniel plays x-box, parents are downstairs doing something and Sarah does homework and watches Gossip Girl or Vampire Diaries.

This is how my usual day during the week looks like. Not bad at all right? :)