What Time Zone Am I In??

After some time away from my blog I was thinking today about how my life now compares to the life I left behind in Connecticut and thought I would share.

A typical day in CT went something like this-
Up around 7 or 7:30 a.m. to get ready for work, head out the door about 8 or 8:30 a.m. to arrive to work between 9 and 9:30 a.m. A quick morning staff huddle at 9:40 a.m. then grab something for breakfast at 10 a.m. and start in on whatever work is needed that day. Some days it's more meetings; some days it was a consistent parade of people in and out of my office for various reasons. Around 1 or 1:30 p.m. I would take a lunch break; sometimes it was a quick 15-30 minutes. I tried hard to take the full hour as often as I could.
In the afternoon things were usually a bit calmer. Between 4 and 4:30 p.m. things would pick up again as staff members were working on wrapping up their day and head home. Around 5 p.m. I processed all of the project folders that had come in during the day and generated the following day's project  schedule for the staff. Sometimes I would get the most done between 4:30 and 6 p.m. simply because nearly everyone had left for the day. I would work until 6 or 6:30/7 p.m.
Depending on the time of year, I would sometimes have a meeting at 7 or 7:30 p.m. to get back to Stratford for, getting me home between 8 and 9 p.m. Other nights I would head straight to the gym after work and workout till 8 or 8:30 p.m. Once home I would have a bite to eat, relax with some television then head to bed and get up the next day and do it all over.

In comparison, my day is much calmer these days. However, switching between the East Coast and West Coast time zones get me confused.

This heard of deer passed by while I was skyping into my morning huddle. I mentioned it to my co-workers and they asked for pictures so I snapped a few and emailed them over to everyone.

My day now goes like this-
Alarm goes off at 5:05 a.m., hit snooze till about 5:32 a.m., roll out of bed and get ready for work; grab my laptop, turn on my wifi hotspot and step out the door to the detached garage where my office is located. Once I step into the office, I enter the East Coast time zone and am up and working  by 9 a.m. (6 a.m. Pacific). I am still part of the staff meeting at 9:40 a.m. via skype and join various meetings that way as needed. I check on my social media channels for one of our clients and line up posts that are scheduled to go out throughout the day. I pop back into the house around 10:30 or 11 a.m., reentering the Pacific time zone and getting breakfast. Back into my office and the Eastern time zone to  continue working without much interruption (or face-to-face interaction) till around 3 p.m. (noon Pacific). I stop for lunch, nearly always taking the full hour  and then back to work around 4 p.m. (1 p.m. Pacific). It is around this time that I get the most confused about the local time. The clock on my computer is set to the Eastern time zone so I keep thinking that it IS 4 p.m. and have to remind myself that it really isn't.
I end my work day at 5:30/5:45 p.m. and re-enter my Pacific time zone life at 2:30/2:45 p.m. I have to either pick my niece up at school at 3:30 p.m. or meet her bus at 4 p.m.; this is the reason I panic at 1 p.m. (4 p.m. EST). Can you start to see my time confusion?
My afternoon sometimes includes a nap before "niece duty" which helps keep me going for the rest of the day if there is a sporting event or social event in town. I have dinner around 6 p.m. then have a lot of down time which I fill with various things and some television before getting to bed and doing it all over the next day.

I enjoyed my schedule when I was in Connecticut, I enjoy keeping busy. However I am liking my bizarre East/West schedule too; it's the best of both worlds with less stress.