The last time we celebrated a view benchmark, I made a post about myself and what led me to create a life in Spain. Now that we’ve hit 250,000 views, I’m posting feet on main! (Open the full image if you are a sicko). Well, the idea of this post is to share a typical day in my life (not all my days are identical, but this is a typical Tuesday for me).
School’s out, and it’s a scorcher here in Seville, so more time is spent inside, at the pool, or at the beach. Since I’m an English teacher at an academy, I get summers off. This means I take on many home responsibilities and have time to work more on this website.
7:30 a.m. – Partner wakes up and starts getting ready for work. Since we only have one bathroom which she occupies all morning, I get up when she finishes to start my day.
8:30 a.m. – Wake up, relax, and slowly get out of bed.
9 a.m. – Morning starts for me. Make breakfast, tidy up the kitchen, brush teeth (normal morning routine stuff). I also check my plants and water as needed.
9:30 a.m. – 10 a.m. – Answer questions from my Facebook page, email, and WhatsApp. If the question deals with a common issue or a change in rules/regulations, I also update the respective webpage.
10 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. – Pack up my equipment and get ready to go rock climbing.
10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. – (Only during the summer do I spend 2 hours climbing. Normally, I only climb for about an hour.) – I always go to the rock climbing gym in the morning, and I generally have a very structured routine (Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday). This means I coincide with the same people, and it’s really created a community which I cherish.
The rock climbing footage will be a mixture of clips from this year. There are a lot of interesting characters at the rock climbing gym, including an Irish man who is eager to film for others so he can secretly talk shit (We all love Torben). I only ask others to film me when I have already done a block, but being videotaped makes me perform way worse for whatever reason. Overall, it’s just a fun sport with a very welcoming community. It keeps me active and happy.
12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. – Cold shower, put down the awning, make the bed, and overall, do some light cleaning. I have to sweep and dust much more frequently in Spain than back in Michigan. It’s a different climate, and if you don’t do this at least once or twice a week, it gets noticeably dusty.
This was filmed right after getting home from rock climbing. It’s a quick tour of my home in Seville.
2:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. – Have lunch. I meal-plan our lunches 3 times a week. On Sundays, I make the lunches for Monday and Tuesday, and on Tuesday, I make the lunches for Wednesday and Thursday. Friday’s lunch is usually something simple like pasta. Last Sunday, I made a spinach salad with white beans, tuna, cherry tomatoes, feta cheese, and a lemon vinaigrette.
2:30 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. – Meal prep and clean up. Today, I made a zucchini slice quiche. On Wednesday, I plan on making a type of pea salad.
I was going to add the cooking footage to this video, but it literally crashed my computer, so you can just imagine how I expertly made the dish.
3:15 p.m – 8 p.m. – Work on the website with occasional breaks to play video games, watch videos, and read (I’m on summer break!). I’m okay with not being productive at times, but I take a hard stance against short-form content. It is so easy to waste an hour watching brain rot videos that give you no joy and are actively detrimental to your mental health (along with your actual brain). Instead, I like to watch rock climbing competitions, video game tournaments, and gardening videos (shoutout to Self Sufficient Me). At the moment, I am also reading a biography on Ulysses S. Grant through Libby. While relaxing, I make sure to train my flexibility and get a few stretches in too.
I do try my best to put in at least 3 hours a day on the website. I also use this time to help people who have emailed me or sent a question on my Facebook page. If you have ever sent me a question, you would know that I am highly responsive (I’m always happy to help, but I’m also not your lawyer. Polite requests are great. Impolite demands aren’t.).
I’m a bit late for this year’s applicants, but along with this post, I’m also working on visa guides for Canadians. There are 3 consulates, and it takes a lot work to get accurate, detailed information and organize it clearly on a page.
8:00 p.m. – My partner gets home from work (she works from 10 a.m – 7 p.m. in a highly stressful project manager position and has an hour commute). From 8 p.m. until we go to bed, we try to spend some quality time together. This involves making dinner together, watching our show on Netflix (right now that is Yellowstone), going for a walk or to the swimming pool if she has the energy, or anything else.
And that’s my day. It’s not the most interesting thing in the world, but it’s mine and I like it.
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