My Daily Rituals

   My alarm clock is set for 6:30 in the morning, but I ussualy wake up before it sounds. Once your body gets used to it, it becomes an unconditioned reflex. However, I tend to wait for the time it is supposed to ring to get out of bed. Then I start getting ready to go to work. I put on my uniform, fix my hair, brush my teeth, get my lunch from the fridge, get a zip of juice and get going. This usually lasts no more than 20 minutes. The fact that I like to sleep to the last minute, makes me be really fast to wake up as late as I can and still make it to work on time. The traffic at that time is horrible but I have the advantage of living close to my work and it definitely makes it less annoying. When I get to work, I leave my things in my deks and go straight to get my morning coffee. I would be nothing without it. I also fill my water bottle on my way back. Then, I start my work duties. I work in the Accounting department of a cargo airline in Miami International Airport. There is so much to do that it keeps me occupied for the entire eight hours of my work day. Around 3:25pm, I start getting ready to leave so the last five minutes are mostly to accomodate in a well organized way the tasks I already have for the next day. Mondays and Wednesdays are the days I have school in the campus so those days I go from work directly to my house, take a quick shower and go to the MDC parking the school arranged in the International Mall while they build a new parking building in the West Campus. The rest of the days, I basically dedicate them to my online courses, which I am taking two this semester. It might sound easier than coming to school, but they demand a lot more of your time, in my opinion. However, it is still comfortable to me since I kind of got used to it already. After that, there is not much time left, so I try to distribute it in a way that after taking a shower, having dinner, and doing a few house chores, I still have some time to watch TV and clear and refresh my mind. In adittion, my husband and I always also try to make some time to go to the movies and maybe a dinner out during the week days. On weekends, we ussually get together with the family and do some outdoors activities. Sometimes picnics, concerts at night, barbecues, maybe go for a few drinks at a bar, every once in a while some clubbing and things like that.