What I Should be Doing: #MFRWAuthor Blog Challenge, Week 31
A Day in My Life…
This Blog Challenge topic reminds me of every New Year’s Eve resolution I’ve broken this year. I SHOULD BE exercising more. I SHOULD be getting up at the crack of dawn, heading first thing to my computer, and banging out the next novel. I’m woefully inconsistent on those shoulds, but I do have three imperatives that start my every day! 
Care and Feeding
First, Gabby the dog and Henry the cat MUST BE FED.
If you have a cat, you know what I’m talking about. Gabby is actually a bit more patient.
Caffeine
The next imperative is my coffee. Actually, I start a pot brewing before I drag out the pet food. (Like flying, put on your own oxygen mask first before you help your kid.)
I confess, I never look as stylish and perky as the lady in this painting. Plus, a cup that tiny would never do!
Once those requirements are met, I grab my cell phone, retrieve the Wall Street Journal, from the driveway and head out to the back patio, weather permitting. Since I live in Southern California, it usually is.
Exercise
What? Haha! Me and exercise–er, exercise and I–have this kind of relationship:
Currently, we’re in the proceed cautiously yellow zone. I do my stretching, and normally, my mornings include a long walk with the Gabbers. However, we’ve had a coyote explosion in our area (confirmed by all my neighbors on Nextdoor.com) and when my puppy sniffs the air and goes back inside, I usually follow her.
Have no fear, I perform all the routine personal hygiene tasks that no one ever includes in a romance novel. The rest of my day depends on other imperatives, like blogging, promotion editorial deadlines, RWA chapter work. I try to fight getting sucked into the social media vortex, but, yeah, you know how that goes!
Some days I manage to run errands, clean house, and make dinner, which makes my spouse very happy!
What’s a day in your life like? Chime in before you hop along to see how my fellow MFRW authors have addressed this topic!
Images: Dog and Cat, the author; all others, Wikimedia Commons
Egads! I forgot to include the feeding of my pets in my post. Yes, that’s absolutely first! Enjoyed your post.
Thanks, Sherry!
enjoyed the post, especially henry. Our wakeup call was TIghe. He’d be up with the first bird chip (aka sunrise.) ANd if we ignored the loud meows and gently patting of our faces and didn’t get up to feed him fast enough, he’d slam the bedroom door. Let’s just say he had a thorough understanding of escalation.
Cats are very interesting animals. Henry is our first. It took him a while, but he finally got us trained!
Coyote Explosion – we seem to be having that here as well. Me and Exercise – hahaha. Love how you skirted that one. For me, it’s like being forced to work alongside an ex that you’d just as soon fell off of the face of the earth. IT’s a love hate relationship. I hate it. I hate doing it. I was athletic in my youth, but as the years piled up so have the pounds. Well, fast foward to now and I have to do it. It’s part of my cancer treatment, exercise is very important to get proper circulation and all of those other health benefits. YEah, blah blah blah. I’ll do it if I have to I guess. Maybe if we move to a coastal town where i can walk the beach. Anyway, Love your post!!
I think we put such high expectations on ourselves from seeing people at the gym or watching exercise videos. Exercising ought to be more fun than that! Best of luck with your treatments. I’m sending healing thoughts your way!
I love the title of your post. Very honest!
I’m just filled with resolutions every new year! Gotta start somewhere!
I have the same relationship with exercise that you do – proceed with caution. I’ve had to deal with plantar fasciitis this year, so I’m more likely to hop on the exercise bike for a few minutes than take a good walk. Every little bit helps, right?
Gabby is so cute. No one could resist those eyes. Keep her safe from those dang Coyotes!
She is an adorable puppy!
All the should’ve, would’ve, could’ve — could fill a book, lol. I have my coffee set on a timer- so there is very little time between awaking and the caffeine infusion. Enjoyed the post! Love the pet pics!
When I had a day job I put the coffee on a timer. Now my wakeup time is a tad inconsistent, so we bought a Bunn that brews 10 cups in about 2 minutes.
Lol, having just fed our two cats, I totally agree that they must come first. I’m ashamed to think I left their feedings off my post. The ways ours carry on while we’re opening cat food cans, you’d think they hadn’t seen food since last week. Enjoyed your post!
Yes, cats are very dramatic about food!
LOL on this part: I perform all the routine personal hygiene tasks that no one ever includes in a romance novel. It’s so very true. No one needs to know all those dirty details.
Our dogs are more patient about eating, for a little while. The oldest one starts to get antsy if we make her wait too long. Caffeine, that seems to be the magical power behind all us writers.
Yes, got to have the caffeine!
I too have a brood of pets. I start my coffee and fill that space while its brewing feeding my cats ( they would attack me if they don’t go first, my Gunnea pigs that start squealing the moment i appearing the room, my fish then poor patient Molly. LOL Maybe that should count as exercise LOL
Poor Molly gets to eat last! I can’t remember how big she is, but maybe she has the bigger stomach and can wait longer.