This is my daily schedule. A real behind-the-scenes look at all the super fascinating details.
6:45 alarm rings. begin the 15 minutes of snoozing necessary to convince self to get out of bed. take phone out of airplane mood and respond to husband's sweet good morning text.
7 a.m. reluctantly get out of bed and take my rx. (this is full access, E-Entertainment style reporting. only the best for my 7 readers!)
7:05-7:45 a.m. morning routine and out the door.
walk to training class across the street. allow myself the happy daydream that im now about 13days away from working in my home office with my favorite underwriter ever.
8 a.m. -10ish first segment of training combined with coworker observing. and judging. today we're following along as trainer3 goes over preferred uw guidelines; and the process for reviewing e-apps. i am DYING because trainer3 is eating candy or cough drops or something while she's talking. which is my nightmare. "pet peeve" does not adequately explain the literal rage I feel when people smack/slurp/make mouth or food noises (or chew gum loudly). like my stomach hurts and my fists clench. so i'm having to do yoga breaths to ignore the slurping and sucking so that i can concentrate on what she's teaching.
10ish 15 min break. text husband to bitch about the trainer's candy sucking. because that is why spouses exist -to know your quirks and triggers and to sympathize with your pain whilst simultaneously being secretly thrilled that you're directing your insanity towards someone else other than them.
head to break room where i eat my breakfast: a cheese stick and 2 no-sugar-added apple sauces. watch enviously as all other coworkers head to fridge and/or vending machine and proceed to get all manners of full-sugar drinks, candy bars, potato chips and/or sandwiches and bagels etc brought from their room or the cafe next store. try very hard to be happy for them as they file past me eating their junk food.
10:15ish to noon. 2nd segment of training.
noon-1 p.m. walk back to hotel for lunch. immediately change into a night gown to avoid wrinkling or getting food stains on my work clothes. my food routine is that every few nights i order multiple entrees from a local restaurant that delivers. that way i have several entrees in my fridge (full kitchenette in room) so that im not wasting my precious break/lunch time waiting in food lines. i go to walmart on monday nights and buy miscellaneous food to supplement the meals i order in. i have water, diet sodas, cheese sticks, apple sauce, pickles, almonds and shredded cheese & eggs.
12;50 get dressed and walk back to work
*Shortly after lunch, TexasRose arrived in a cloud of hairspray and cigarette smoke. She was rocking Texas-big-hair and full-on makeup; and dressed in a plaid-mid-thigh tank dress with strappy, open-toed denim-blue high heels. Sort of Daisy Dukes gets an office job. It was so her. She's attractive in the way of a woman who was probably strikingly pretty in the 1980s but who has smoked and tanned every day since then. She was loud and boisterous and interrupty. Other than that, we were still pretty subdued today.
1-3 p.m. segment 3 of training. more case practice. more processes & procedures review. more preferred guidelines.
3p.m. 15 min break.
3:15 -5 p.m. finish the day doing practice tasks on the system. and going through cases with the trainer. tomorrow we get our own live cases to start working so we're all pretty excited about and terrified of that.
immediately after work i exercise. today i went for a 42-minute jog-walk with NotLuLu through a really pretty trail we found.
dinner in my room after. (tonight was grilled chicken salad delivered last night; with zesty italian dressing from walmart). catch up with jeff by phone. find out how my kid is doing.
the rest of the night: tv, phone and internet.
11ish take a sleeping pill to ensure a full night's sleep.talk to jeff as i'm falling asleep.
6:45 a.m. start the cycle again.
**miscellaneous logistical details.
I have an airport allowance ($500) for the whole 3 weeks; which can cover a rental car (no thanks; there's nothing to do in this town; and i have free (plus tip) airport shuttle for the weekly walmart run; and I walk to and from work. or it can be used for car service or taxis to and from the airport.
there is also a daily transportation allowance (like $30ish) to cover taxis etc. Not yet needed. but nice to have if you want to go to a restaurant or something.
the hotel is candlewood suites. there's weekly housekeeping, not daily, so that kind of removes one of the best perks of hotel stays. but since i'm by myself the room stays clean. hmmm.
there's a small but adequate gym, free DIY washers/dryers, a mini store with honor-system self serve that you can pay cash for or charge to room.
for food, you can submit receipts for up to $45 per day; or choose to get the 45 as daily flat rate with income tax taken out. i selected this option bc it seemed easier (think of having to buy all your cold drinks and 3 meals plus snacks a day x 3 weeks and then having to keep up with and then upload/report all those receipts). last night i ordered 2 side orders meatballs and 2 salads w/ protein. total was 30ish plus tip. ate salads for last night's and tonight's dinner. for lunch today ate 1 order meatballs; will have the other order of meatballs for tomorrow's lunch. breakfasts are my cheese/applesauce from wmart. afternoon snacks are nuts/protein bars etc from wmart.
the math: the monday night wmart run for $40ish covers breakfasts and snacks and cold drinks (and laundry detergent) for the whole week. and the $30ish restaurant order monday night lasted four meals (2 dinners and 2 lunches) over 2 days. so that's $15ish per day from restaurant. and approx $5ish a day from wmart. so im averaging $20 a day in food/drinks but don't have to submit all the receipts and will get prob $30ish a day after taxes to cover that. i figure the extra will cover my airport reading habit. i need at least three overpriced magazines per flight. and at least 2 books loaded on my kindle.
you have option to be flown back and forth each weekend or not travelling home and having hotel paid for (of course). i flew home last weekend. will stay in town this weekend and go to NYC for a broadway run. sadly, i can't figure out how to expense the play!
today i rocked a lovely black & white ensemble with my fake pearls.
except during my lunch hour when I rocked my cotton nightgown as a bib stand in. i like how my black socks really set off the sequined nightgown (which , ironically, says "glamorous")
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