A Day in the Life (Aaron's Friday)

 Documenting a Day

 

            Friday is a day that I would like to think is the most exciting day of the week for me.  I’m not as young as I once was and have children to take care of, but at my age it’s the little things that I find matter more, where hanging out on the couch is a bit more enjoyable than going out to a rager with my buddies or spending all my money at the bar waiting to hopefully meet women to fall in love with.

            The hardest part of the day begins first thing in the morning which is of course waking up and getting out of bed (Yuck!).  After snoozing my alarm for a good hour, I finally muster up the courage to roll up onto my feet, get my teeth brushed so my breath doesn’t smell, and put my contacts in so I can see, followed by a quick shower to wake up and make sure the rest of my body doesn’t smell as well. 

            After getting ready, it’s time to get the kids ready for school by making them an egg or cereal, then arguing with one about eating.  Secondly, we will send them up to brush their teeth and put some clothes on, then argue about why they must brush their teeth.  Thirdly, time to put shoes on, (argue about why they have to wear shoes).  Then finally it’s time to go to school, as we say with a kiss “love you, have fun at school… LEARN STUFF”!!!

Now that the kids are at school it’s time to head to work (ugh...traffic), but as I mentioned before, Friday is the most exciting day in large part because I worked so much early in the week that I only have to work half of the day!  Since most of the work has been done, and most of the employees who use technology leave by noon, there is not a whole lot to do so I have time to catch up on schoolwork or talk with my colleagues about their weekend plans or about the upcoming football season.  As soon as 1 o’clock rolls around, the laptop shuts and I’m out the door, and of course, inevitably one of the few people still working has an issue with their computer as I’m driving home, so I drive home, get my laptop out, fix their problem, close the ticket and bam, I’m off work again!

After a few minutes of winding down, my wife and I will go for a quick bite, often nachos from Qdoba to hold us over until dinner before we pick the kids up from school.  Once the kids are out and we get home we spend an hour or two quietly staring at our phones or perhaps doing homework before the weekend, then we head out to Buffalo Wild Wings, our traditional Friday night hangout spot, for chicken and beer.  While we’re at the restaurant, we like playing a few rounds of Uno, but since we never finish the last game before the food is served the first to proclaim “I win” is the winner of the final bout. 

Once we are home and stuffed full of beer and chicken, we let the kids watch a television show or play on their phones until bedtime, then we send them up to brush their teeth and put on their pajamas’ before reading them a bedtime story (there’s usually less arguing at this point).  After reading the books we will put the kids to bed, and head downstairs to watch a show and have a nightcap cocktail before hitting the rack ourselves, head up to bed, turn on the tv, hit the pillow, then the next thing you know… it’s Saturday morning.