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What’s Your Day Look Like?
Posted on September 18th, 2008 in Church Life, Life and Family by Fred McKinnon
Hey Everybody -
OK, so I’m breaking ranks and posting something that could have NOTHING to do with worship, worship leadership, etc. … and it’s not even Friday yet.
One thing that I love about this blog is the community we build. Twitter really helps with that. I wanted to bring it home today. Here’s a glimpse of my schedule today. I wanna hear about yours.
6:00 AM: quiet time/devotional time.
6:50 AM: get JM and Will up and dressed for school
7:00 AM: have b’fast with the family, Bible story, prayers
7:30 AM: finish tying shoes, combing hair, make sure kids are ready for school
(Note: these are struck through because though it’s the daily plan, I turned my alarm off at 6:00 and never knew another thing until around 7:35. Thanks for letting me sleep in, Joy baby. Though she never reads this blog, I’m thanking her!)
7:45 AM: kids out the door, shower/get dressed
8:00 AM: go upstairs and do HPP work (pack last nights orders, answer emails)
9:00 AM: head to SSCC for work
9:00 AM – 12:00 PM: emails, messages, prepare for tonight’s rehearsal, make sure all the lead sheets and chord charts are good, walk through the setlist, and today, reconcile by church visa statement.
NOON – 1:00/1:30′ish: Thursday Lunch in the Mezzanine – a bunch of us on staff bring in our lunch, eat a quick sandwich in the Mezzanine while watching SportsCenter, and then play Halo 3 on XBOX 360 (we have 4 of them, networked together, with 4 big plasmas. I lose every time)
After Lunch – 2:00: return phone calls, emails, print leadsheets for rehearsal
2:00 PM – 5:30 PM: go home for a few hours (normally to see kids b4 rehearsal, but today I have a studio editing/mixdown session with a local Music Minister)
5:30 PM: head back to SSCC, make sure food is ready for rehearsal, final stage setup if necessary
6:30 PM: food arrives for rehearsal
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM: SSCC rehersal
9:00 PM until: go back home, train new part-time employee on HPP Enterprises e-biz stuff.
Whenever that’s done, I’ll hopefully crash.
Vacation (just Joy and I with no kids) begins in 3 more days.
Let’s see a quick recap of your schedule today!
Fred
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6:30 Curse the alarm clock with a pox.
7:00 Out the door to take Lydia to work.
7:20 At the office to begin my workday.
12:00 Lunch at Larry’s giant Subs (maybe Jimmy John’s)
1:00 Back in the office.
2:30/3:00 Head home.
@home: chill, unpack, etc.
Tonight: Play basketball or tennis at our new apartment’s nice courts.
Somewhere between 10:00 pm and 1:00 am go to bed.
Russ – congrats on the new move, bro. Btw – I’ll have a Kong’s Club on wheat, add jalapenos.
For the Kingdom,
Fred McKinnon
http://www.fredmckinnon.com
http://www.theworshipcommunity.com
Food for rehearsal???
Anyway…
6:10 throw cellphone at closet to turn off alarm.
6:40 check email, forums, analytic stats. (fasting today, so no breakfast)
7:00 out the door, take Shannon to bus stop.
7:05 Hit the Christian crackhouse, otherwise known as Dunkin Donuts.(fasting only goes so far)
7:10 Hit the highway. Go over upcoming sermon in head. Preach to dashboard
7:50 get to office, check email, report
8:30 meeting with factory rep
5:00 leave work
6:15 pick Shannon up at swim practice
7:00 pick Meghann up at soccer practice
7:30 dentist appointment for the girls.
9:00 hopefully home by now.
10:30ish Fall asleep watching BSG reruns on joox
Food at rehearsal????
Mike,
Man, throw kids in the mix, and our days look similar, huh!?
RE: FOOD – yeah, we take care of volunteers, and it’s a critical part of our budget. Nothing elaborate, Dominos gives us a 1-topping large for $6.00 … so I can spend about $25-30 (w/ driver tip) per week, and have 4 pizzas delivered at 6:30. It gives us (the band/volunteers/lighting/av/sound/vocalist) time to come in after work, eat together, talk, laugh, fellowship, and just relax before hitting the stage for rehearsal.
The way I see it – many of these volunteers come straight to the church from their all-day jobs … and we seldom get done before 8:30 or so … so the least we can do is invest $30/week into feeding them.
Chalk it onto the “HOSP902″ budget line item!
For the Kingdom,
Fred McKinnon
http://www.fredmckinnon.com
http://www.theworshipcommunity.com
Hey dude, I like the way that scheduling thingee looks. Is it free? Or is it one of those high dollar programs that professional musicians can afford as though it was nothing at all?
6:00-6:40 This is the time frame that I usually wake up in without the alarm clock.
6:40-7:15 Help wake up kids (usually one call on Ethan, two on David and three on Julia), breakfast, brushing hair, and giving out threats not to make the trip to school late so Sandy won’t have to take Ethan all the way to school. (He catches the bus from David and Julia’s school to his)
7:15 – 8:15 Quiet time, work on book, check email, whatever I feel motivated to do.
8:15-8:45 Shower and get ready for work
9:00-2:00 Whatever my boss-man tells me to do
2-3 lunch
3-6 See 9-2
6-bedtime (anywhere from 9:30-12:00) Whatever my wife tells me to do!
Simple, huh?
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And weekends? Whatever my wife tells me to do, too.
Robert McKinnons last blog post..Where He Judges the Living and the Dead: (What Now? cont’d)
Robert,
“whatever my wife tells me to do” .. hahahaha, I love it!
RE: the calendar … it’s the FREE iCal program that comes on all Macs. But, you can use http://www.google.com/calendar for free … it works great, too!
For the Kingdom,
Fred McKinnon
http://www.fredmckinnon.com
http://www.theworshipcommunity.com
Up @ 2:00 AM
Sleep @ 4:00 AM
Awake and Rise @ 7:30
8:05 AM Leave for Church job.
8:20 Pick up Mail for Church
8:25 AM Arrive @ Church
8:30 AM Check e-mail accounts, answer machine messages, etc.
Turn on SSCC MP3
9:00 AM John comes in Church – Says the Church has found new Pastor to begin in Nov. or Dec.- I will find out who it is next week I think.
12:00 PM- Working on their stewardship campaign, Deacons Quarterly Meeting. Having usual leftovers from home (Italian today)
1:30 PM- Going to Get Car Tags(BD Friday-49Years OLD.
2:00 PM- Banking Stuff
2:15 PM- Go home and let dogs out. Try to find the snake who greeted me when I came out the garage door this morning.
3:30 PM- More “Woodshedding” in garage.
5:00 PM- Do all of Daddy Cates payouts and Payroll.
6:30 -Church for rehearsal.
8:30-9:00 – Home
Dude, you’re busy.
5:30 the alarm went off.
Greg Laurie on KWVE 107.9 tried earnestly to wake me up along with my cell phone; alas, I woke up LATE at 6:15 am in the middle of Steve Mays’ sermon.
6:55 a.m. Husband drives me to train station.
7:11 a.m. Get on the Metrolink to work
7:40 a.m. Arrive in Santa Ana
7:55 a.m. Arrive at work; get latte across the street.
8:00 – Noon — work or whatever comes my way while at work, right now it is posting on your blog.
Noon: Lunch hour. Gotta get snowflakes at Michaels for Women’s Christmas Lunchon nametags.
1 p.m. – 5 p.m. Back to more work or piddling around on the internet.
I have to start studying James 4:11-12 (maybe to 17) for our ladies’ study next Thursday that I am leading.
5:24 Metrolink home
6:00 picked up at station by husband and Chloe the Wonder Dog
6:00 – 10:00 p.m. Make dinner, paint snowflake ornaments, get chord charts assembled for worship at Friday Motel outreach, maybe watch The Office Season 4 (that arrived from netflix yesterday).
Bridget Willards last blog post..Sunday Setlist – 9/14/08 (Calvary Chapel Seaside, Laguna Beach)
“The way I see it – many of these volunteers come straight to the church from their all-day jobs … and we seldom get done before 8:30 or so … so the least we can do is invest $30/week into feeding them.
Chalk it onto the “HOSP902″ budget line item!”
You’re so right. We do come straight from work. If I had a team and rehearsal, I’d do the same thing in some form or another.
Way to go Fred!
Bridget Willards last blog post..Sunday Setlist – 9/14/08 (Calvary Chapel Seaside, Laguna Beach)
@RV – woodshed, go! see u tonight!
@Bridget … hey, where/what do you work?
Haha this is great!:
5:30am – wake up and wonder why kids aren’t awake? If they’re not I’m not.
5:35am – go back to bed
7:00am – turn off alarm. Wow kids still asleep!
7-8am – Wife and I get ready for our day.
8am – Kids up and house is a buzz!
9am – Out the door to daycare
9:30 – Daycare administer meeting
10am – Heading to work
10-11:30 – Work organization – emails, weekend final prepwork, other randomness to iron out for rest of the week
11:30-12 – Leftover lunch in the church kitchen
12-1:30pm – Sanctuary organization
2pm – Coffee meeting at LSU campus with college student
3-4:30pm – Work at LSU mooching free wifi
5:00pm – Pick up Kiddos from daycare
5:30 – Paper, rock, scissors with wife for who gets to play with kiddos and who gets to cook dinner
6:30 – EAT
7pm – Curious George with Chloe on the sofa while Gavin gets a bath
8pm – Gavin’s asleep and I’m giving Chloe a bath
8:30pm – Storytime
9pm – Thank Rae for cleaning the kitchen while I tell stories
9:15 – I hit sofa, Rae hits arm chair
9:30 – Realize we have so much more to do for Chloe’s birthday party on Saturday!
10pm – Clean house
11pm – Rae collapses and goes to bed
12:00 – My brain finally shuts down and I go to bed
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for starters i don’t wake up like all you holy worship leaders @ 5:30am, my day starts usually when my son wakes up….8:00am
8:00am – get my son out of bed and watch my wife make hiim breakfast
8:45am – finally wipe the crusties out of my eyes and head to work
9:00am – check emails
9:30am – look @ calendar or toodledo to see what’s in store for today
9:40am – try to figure out what not to work on so that i might accomplish one thing off my list in the am
11:30am – realize i haven’t accomplished anything but started 3 projects off my toodledo and started 2 that i didn’t even have written down
12:00pm – realizing i’m not very focused, i go to lunch…probably La Fiesta
1:00pm – come back focused, tired, and full
1:10pm – start one project to finish
3:00pm – get phone call from front office looking for deron….this disrupts my entire working process
5:00pm – start trying to shut things down bc my wife is calling me or has brought my son to keep my company in my office (distract me so i stop working: )
6:00pm – get home, decide we don’t any food that sounds good to me
6:30pm – go to walmart
7:30pm – eat
8:00pm – watch some tv or a movie
11:00pm – wife goes to bed while i am watching letterman
12:00am – 2:00am – go to bed
Everyone is so busy!
5:50 AM – Roll out of bed and make lunches for my husband and I.
6:15 – shower, etc
6:45 – Walk dog
7:10 – Bike to work (part-time office day job) (6.5 miles one way)
8-11:30 – Boring admin job
11:30-12 – Lunch, blogging, emails
12-2 – Boring admin job
2-2:30 – Bike home
2:30-5 – Worship director related emails, phone calls, getting lead sheets ready, song lists, practice
5-7 – Make dinner, chores, walk dog again
7-10 – Hang out with husband, maybe some more practicing
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7:30-Get up (quite reluctantly)
8:10-Leave for Work
8:45-Get to Work
8:45-9-Fix coffee and get ready for our morning meeting
9-10-Morning Meeting
10-1:45-Paperwork, paperwork, and anything else my boss needs me to do
1:45-2:00-Drive to Physical Therapy appt.
2-3-Physical Therapy
3-3:30-Leave PT, get some lunch and gas
3:30-6:00-Back to work
6:00-6:35-Drive home
6:35-11:00-Chill out, watch tv, and whatever else comes up
11:00-Go to bed
I actually work from a list instead of a time table like you have. I tried that method and found myself not be able to work like that.