Schedule

I wanted to give everyone idea of what I actually do on a weekly basis. When we were in Rocky Point, Mexico, we set a weekly schedule that we will follow for the entire year. Here is mine:

Monday: laundry, men's house
Tuesday: morning porter, gate
Wednesday: clothes closet, afternoon showers
Thursday: day off
Friday: foodbank, community day, women's house
Saturday: soupline
Sunday: men's house from 1100-1500, gate

I realize my above schedule doesn’t look like it’s too bad, but I assure you that my time management skills learned at school have come in handy. The average day starts at 0900 and our duties are done by 1930 or so. Some of the other things that we do on a regular basis, but are not on our schedule are: interviewing people to live in our transitional houses, serving as contacts for the guests in our transitional houses, sorting donations in our basement, helping in the kitchen even on days when we’re not assigned to, among other odd things. I have been given the additional duty to be in charge of the cars we own. As my brother put it, I am the Andre House motor pool officer, as we currently own 12 cars. The majority are old and junky, so it’s my job to make sure they are maintained and kept legal. I can talk about all the other duties in their own posts.

We also have our house that needs attention, so that takes time too. We need to do more of that because 1) the plants we do have growing are dying from a lack of water and 2) we just got a notice from the city that our yard is too far out of disrepair. Apparently one of our neighbors doesn’t like something (because the letter didn’t say exactly), so we need to do some lawn work. Yes, we actually do have some grass in our yard, despite the huge lack of rain here.

I also have to try and do personal things in my own time. I have been working on applications to get back into West Point, making appointments for my medical qualification, as well as Congressional nomination packets. If there is any time left after all of this, I try to motivate myself to work out. It’s so hot right now that we have to work out at night.