(drafted on 25 june 2025)
5:10 am Alexa Alarm...Alexa Stop (with heart panting that neighbours would wake-up) Another close-by alarm on cellphone (Snoozed by 5 mins
5:15 am 'Wakeup Love 💕' (yeah that's how I love to wake-up). But the sound of alarm itself puts me in a panic
Few seconds to ease my heart and be reminded - 'I am safe'
A quick phone check on the office cab pickup schedule as they only give a buffer of 5mins else they simply leave, without any intimation (gets updated post midnight only)
5.25 am get to the kitchen and drink some warm water with Amla or plain..in Mal asana. Brush and Rush to bath. (All these while, keep snoozing the alarm by 5 mins 😉. Morning is also the time I might just get transported to my thought land and loose track of time effortlessly!)
A quick shower and getting into Gym wear...collect handbags with laptop and a change of clothes ...+ Not to forget the footwears. Lights, switches, alexa, kitchen gas...off? Check check check :)
in cab at 5:39 am
Finish onboarding formalities and doze off, try focusing on deep breaths or simply reattempt to read a few lines or pages of a book
6:30 - 8am Get to the gym, workout, shower and ready for office
10-15 mins Meditation
8:30 am breakfast
Get to the work desk
New tasks, troubleshooting planning hiccups, meetings and more meetings, feedbacks, discussions or putting our points forward, parallel event planning or consult communities and drive vendor engagements, change of schedule for managers and impact, jiggling priorities and added tasks...Snoozed reminders, missed deadlines on trainings and keeping execs informed on the lag... Take a step back and account for the upcoming months schedule. Travel prep, engage with personal vendors on other tasks - airport cabs, stay, clothes ironing etc.
Lunch with a colleague and exchange knowledge
YE Gifting planning and sampling
Catch a cab back at 1.30pm
Engage in an endless chat with a colleague who is travelling for the first time to US and needed some pointer for a first time traveller
Reach home 3 pm and jot down things to pack....
Surrrrrprize!! Water supply will be limited for next three days, power cut since morning, that mean no phone charging, ironing will be delayed ...that means my plans needed to be revisited!
coordinate with a vendor for site visit (team engagement location) and ask if a power bank can be carried along 🙏
While waiting for the cab to come and pick at 4...I imagined the dresses that I would need to pack for my next three days travel and switching cities.
4pm...board a cab to Ramanagara... On the way stop for coffee and Madhur vada...and again deep discussions on events and other project lineups! (Lost track of time)
Take express way to the location, meet 🌧️☔.... Connect with host team and chef etc for detailed itinerary for a team outing....
Leave the premise at 7pm and sit in peace for few mins due to exhaustion and feeling of overwhelm.
Sob uncontrollably, remembering something from yesterday that hurted and gave a feeling of sinking..in the gut, over tiredness and the feeling of useless of tasks I am prioritizing or may be not at all!
Then come to my consciousness and feel lighter.
7:45 pm reach back city and after trying for three different salons contacts and checking services, finally lock on one...
Call ironing uncle and collect dresses to be packed at 8pm
Hoged dinner at 8.15pm and assure the beautician, I am on my way...
The driver misunderstood instructions and went to fill fuel while I waited for him outside the food shop 🤐🤣
Then coordinate with him and parlour
Get cab back at 8.35, and reach parlour at 8.55pm!!
Get services done in a jet Speed!...@10.30pm
Head back home
Start packing bags ..
Wait...an unusual call from a friend needing some emotional support and a advice and was crying on the other end, I laughed at this contrast and so did she 🤣 (I explained the situation to her and she agreed that I need to attend to me, first :p)
Get started with sorting dressing, trying and mapping to the schedule..
Get a call from assigned airport driver ...to share address and instructions (Strictly NO calls before 5:30 am)!
Get back to packing...and finish only at 2 am! Thanks to my darling neighbours...
Sleep with a greatful heart 💕
Next day - Wakeup at 5:15 am!, get ready and head to airport:)
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