Thursday.......

It is nearing the end of the week. I can tell you that I have never experienced anything in my life quite like this. It feels as if my life is completely on hold during the week and I have to cram all my living into Saturday and Sunday.

My typical week day starts at 4:30 in the morning. I get up and ram down a cup of coffee down my throat. Thank you to whomever invented the coffee maker with a timer on it. Without that, I would have to get up at 4:15 so I could make coffee.

During that time I hope I need to use the restroom. I know it is silly, but when I have to use the restroom my lower abdomen hurts like crazy. Since I have an hour commute in the morning, have abdominal cramps can make for a long, miserable ride.

At 4:45 am I start getting ready for work. I do the typical stuff, shave, shower, get dressed, etc. That takes about 20 to 25 minutes. I then go downstairs, kiss my wife, who is now up, and make myself a cup of coffee to go and then I am off. I have to get on the road by 5:15 to 5:20 am to avoid all of the downtown Atlanta traffic. It takes about an hour to get to work. It should take 1 hour and 15 minutes, but I travel at about 80 mph on the freeway.

I typically get to work at 6:20 to 6:30 am. The owner doesn't seem to mind if we do personal things on the computer, so I check facebook, play Mafia Wars, and type this stupid blog. My work day starts at 7:00 am.

I work in the car business as a Service Manager. Well, really as a Service Consultant. The great thing about the car business is that it pays more than most, the bad thing is that the hours are long. I work Monday through Friday, 7:00 am to 6:00 pm. That is a long day, my friends.

I try to get out of work as close to 6:00 as possible to start the ride home. My typical evening commute is 1 hour and 30 minutes. I have only experienced one accident backing up traffic. The extra 30 minutes in the evening is just due to freeway congestion. I would carpool if I could, but no one around me is crazy enough to commute 60 miles one way to work.

I arrive home at about 7:30 pm and my back and left hip are screaming at me. I stretch out a bit and sit down for dinner. Now, my wife works as well, and she has a very demanding job. She works from 6:30 to 2:30 in the afternoon. Because it is physically demanding, when she comes home, she needs to take a shower, take a nap, and then sit and relax. I am okay with this, but it does mean that on the majority of the evenings I am either fending for myself or eating some sort of one pan meal. I cannot remember the last time I had a traditional meat, starch, and vegetable dinner during the week.

So, I eat until 8:00pm and then watch one hour of television. It is now 9:00 pm and it is time for me to start getting ready for the next day. This entails getting the coffee maker ready for tomorrow and making my lunch. All this takes about 20 minutes, and then it is time for bed.

Yep, life's an adventure........