My 2020: Just a normal day: In My World

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My 2020: Just a normal day: In My World

A normal day in my life these days, is probably even more boring than most steemians experience, since I don’t travel to a job every morning. I’m retired now, but even when I was working at my last job, I worked from home most of the time the last few years. Of course, my daily schedule was different then than it is now, but I am very used to working from my home office.

When I joined steemit in March, 2018, I was excited to have found something else to do although I was pretty busy already. I’d always thought of the time when I would retire as a time when I would have freedom to pursue writing and some of my other favorite hobbies. I hadn’t planned on writing so much, but then again, I didn’t know there’d be something like steemit coming along.

So, my normal day starts with a pretty early rising from bed. I set an alarm on my phone, but I normally wake up several minutes before the alarm sounds. I kill it then and get up quietly. First thing I do once I’m up is to make some coffee, and then I have it with a small piece of breakfast pastry for my “little” breakfast. The “big” breakfast comes later.

Once I have my coffee in hand and that bit of pastry, I sit down in my office to check out the latest news online as I sip the coffee and and consume the pastry, which usually takes around ten or fifteen minutes. Next, I check in on discord with the community I’m a member of, which is PowerHouseCreatives, and then I read some posts on steemit, commenting on and up-voting them.

Then it’s time for me to feed my wild friends, the neighborhood crows. It takes me about an hour to cut up the bread and the other stuff I give them each morning. After I have it ready, I distribute the food in my backyard, and then I stay outside with them until they’re done eating, which doesn’t take long.

By the time I’ve finished feeding the crows, a few hours have gone by since I’d gotten out of bed. Now it’s time for my real breakfast, the big one, which by this time is ready for me to enjoy. It’s usually bacon, eggs, grits, potatoes and toast – my all-time favorite breakfast.

Three days out of the week, (after feeding the crows), I go to the gym to workout - Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Gym days aren’t what I consider my “normal” days though, as I have less time to work those days.

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When breakfast has been consumed, (or I’m back from the gym), I’m off to my office to think about what, if anything, I’m going to write about. I normally don’t have a hard time coming up with something, but it’s even easier for me now that I’ve signed up for the @shadowspub daily list of writing prompts and ideas. If I find something there I can get a handle on, I’m all set to get started writing.

Sometimes, I have to do some research to make sure that my knowledge of a subject is correct and/or up-to-date, and to pick up on anything recently divulged about it that I hadn’t yet heard.

I also write entries for two or three writing contests each week, and the one I’m really into right now is “The 31 Sentence Contest,” run by @tristancarax. This is a pretty challenging contest where entrants must write a story with 31 sentences, and with the designated 0number of words each sentence must have.

Whatever it is that I’m writing about, once I get started I usually don’t stop for anything, as I don’t want to chance screwing up the flow when it’s working so well. I’ll think about eating something and then forget that I’d thought about it. If I do take a break, it’s because I’m far enough along that a break won’t hurt.

I’m normally finishing up mid to late afternoon, and then I usually look at the news online for another ten minutes or so, have some dinner and then back to the office to read any comments I’ve received and to write replies. I then practice guitar for an hour and this usually takes me pretty close to the time I hit the sack.

So this wraps up my normal day, as we’re still in the first month of 2020. It may seem boring as you read this, but honestly, I am very excited as I rise each day, about what I’m doing with my time. I’m being creative, I’m profoundly happy and I’m enjoying what I’m doing with that valuable time. It’s definitely been, and continues to be, time well-spent.

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