Day 3...

Task: Your day, in great detail

Sifiso...

Great detail differs from male to female

11:04 - Wake and check phone (for the time). Reply to BBM messages and an email (I really thought I replied to this email - it will feature again later in my day). Proceed to man cave for my day to commence.

11:51 - Not a big watcher of TV, but begin channel surfing. Tune into 2 and a Half Men. It's the right thing to do since I watched a Charlie Sheen interview on Jay Leno last night.

Mid-12 - Tune into CNBC for some market info. Check stock prices and look for any interesting headlines. Continue to watch junk. Think I watched the Mentalist.

Before 1 - Play Fifa 12, while enjoying some Weetbix. Yes, I deserve a badge for laziness.

Watch more tv throughout the day mainly House and White Collar. These shows are interrupted by random moments of finding new ways to through bottles in the air while making drinks and fine-tuning my repertoire for this weekends performance. Pieces to be debuted this weekend include Icebox (Omarion), So Sick (Ne-yo), We Fall Down (Donnie McClurkin) and Say Yes (Floetry). Trying to do a whole hip-hop/ R&B thing.

Randomly have 3 boiled eggs and then go take a bath.

Following the bath, I begin to study some accounting. Earnings per share. Find some inconsistency which makes no sense. Begin to dissect it and next thing PS3 is in my hands and time for more Fifa.

Steal a handful of mints from my dad's cupboard.

Attend to the email I thought I responded to this morning. My afternoon response is far more pleasant than what I would have sent this morning. Follow-up on some emails from yesterday.

17:53 - Hanging With Mr. Cooper, but toy with the idea of gym. I know I have time on my hands, so postpone.

18:04 - Realised I don't have mixed martial arts or capoeira class, so gym motivation depleted. Try to look for a motivational Arnold Schwarzenneger video, but end up flipping bottles in the air and working on my repertoire.

Eat samp and beans for supper while playing Fifa.

Ziyanda's mail comes in and I remember that I need to write the day down in detail. So I do this from my music area.

About to go take my anti-malaria tablet.


Me...

6:55 My alarm goes off, today I didn't hit the snooze button (usually reward myself with 5min of extra sleep) I jumped out of bed. News goes on and the weather forecast says maximum 22 degrees (yay, warm winters day) so I open my wardrobe, pull out salmon coloured chinos, crisp white shirt and a pair of nude heels. Then I jump into the shower.

6:45 I'm half dressed so I quickly blow dry my hair then comb it into place.

7:00 I turn on the TV to watch Espresso, usually I would watch Morning Live or CNBC Africa, but I thought let me try this show. Unimpressed I let it play in the background while I pack my laptop and cut myself an orange. I quickly nibble as I throw yoghurt and an apple into my bag.

7:20 I'm in the car and on my way to work and listen to Metro fm (this is standard procedure).

8:50 I'm at work, I walk in with my friend Lyle and we joke about (as usual). I pop into my boss's boss office to say hi then sit down, turn my laptop on. Lots of meeting today so try to get as much done before my first one.

10:30 My friend Risel who's based in our factory in JHB is down for a meeting and he came to greet me! Yay! We catch up for 5min then he's off and I get back to work.

11:00 My first meeting with my NPI (New Product Innovation) manager Karine, I'm project manager for something big happening to our brand and she helps me with details on production.

12:00 I run from my meeting with Karine to another meeting with ANOTHER NPI manager, plus 6 other functional experts for project number 2.
Everyone in the boardroom except for my manager/boss (Zonja) and I are smoking...I come out smelling like an ashtray:(

13:00 Meeting done so I head to the cafeteria. Today my friend Zayaan (who's on the same brand as me) and another friend, Faatima (who's just moved to a new team) are having a lunch date. While I wait for Zayaan to get to the cafeteria I catch up with my buddies Steve, Lulu and Risel (together we are the awesome foursome cause we're awesome).

13:10 Zay (Zayaan) comes down, we get lunch and go up to Faati's (Faatima) new department for our lunch date. We get there to find three others. Dig in laugh, relax (a bit).

13:30 Zay and I drag (I mean run enthusiastically) ourselves to our desks and it's back to work. I prepare for my next meeting. I'm nervous cause I'll be presenting.

15:00 Last meeting for the day!! Am I ready? No I'm not! Into Mark's office (boss's boss) and we wait for Zonja. I present and when I'm done they fire questions and I tackle each one with ease. This is my best work this year! An hour later we sit and they give me feedback and where I can improve. Mark throws figures and graphs, challenges me, he wants the answers tomorrow, it's a BIG challenge but I accept. I need to knock this one out of the park, I need to impress Mark tomorrow.

16:30 Meeting done and I get a call from Marthine she needs some designs to be signed off. Zonja is in a meeting and she does the sign offs so I tell her this. Five minutes later I get a call from Sylvia from Oglivy and she also needs something to be signed off, I put it aside for Zonja's To-Do list.

17:00 Zonja is finally back and she approves and signs off. Koos who's been helping me with forecasts for my projects comes and we speak some Afrikaans, he makes fun of my broken Afrikaans then quickly saves himself by joking about HIS broken English. He wants to know how the brand is performing so I quickly look up the figures, we discuss them then decide we shall continue tomorrow.

17:30 Pam, my pretty neighbour asks for a lift and we're off. On our way home this man driving behind me is hooting profusely I can't hear what his saying so as the robot turns red, he swerves his car in front of me, jumps out and tells me my back tyre is flat. We stop at a garage 2 minutes later and I get all my tyres sorted.

18:00 Pam and I stop at Woolies and we get some supper.

18:15 I warm my chicken lasagne, take it out of the microwave, dig in and then start typing this...


Honey...

06h30: Snoozed the alarm

08h05: Make it to my 8 o'clock lecture(that's early for me) probably cause Kamo dropped me off.

9h30: Try really hard not to doze off

10h00-13h00: Lectures, day dreaming about my romantic get away with my lover next weekend

13h30-16h00: Went for praise and worship @ church. Highlight of my day

16h00-17h00: Take a nap, and for some weird reason I dream about pop bottles. Very disturbing.

17h00-17h30: Go on Twitter,blogs,blogs and more blocks. Super excited about the new blog I discovered

18h00-what feels like forever: Study a new standard in accounting