The long pauses my site has between posts has been, more than anything a function of how I’ve been living my days. I have so much going on at any given moment that posting something happens to be the last thing on my mind.

Tonight, a little insight on a typical day in my life. And I promise to try not to embellish.

I’m up by 6AM, and after I slowly ease out of bed, I’m stretching a little bit so that I can get my ass in gear. It’s either an hour on a healthrider or it’s at least forty-five minutes of very brisk walking outside, with occasional runs during the route so long as my shin splints don’t flare up. I bring a watch, an mp3 player and hopefully a peppy attitude.

When I get back home around 7AM, I hit the weights. Not huge weights, but not terribly easy weights either. Enough to do four sets of ten reps for every muscle group I am working on for that day. And, what if by the end of the fourth set my limbs don’t feel like jelly?  It’s a sign I need to add a little bit more. This usually goes on for about forty minutes. Forty minutes of lifting heavy objects, putting them down and picking them back up.

There’s the requisite protein shake, then the possible routine diverges depending on my work schedule. Most of the time I work from 9:30AM  through 6:00PM. In that case I get a ride from someone close who would drop me off at work by 9. I bring my breakfast and have it off the clock. On a day like that I’m usually home by 7, which gives me about three hours of “me time” before I have to prepare for sleep. On a closing shift, I usually work 2:00PM through 10:00P. After breakfast, I have my “me time” followed by work prep.

What happens during “me time” is completely different depending on what I’m in the mood for. Sometimes I go out and hang out with friends, sometimes I do some serious like read a book, different things at different times. And well know that days off are all “me time,” even when it’s spent with friends. I consider that “me time” too.

So that’s my usual day in a nutshell. Like many Americans, life is routine, but it never has to be boring.