you know, i hope i never take my current situation for granted. its been a year and a half and i still wake up every day thankful, so i think there is little chance of it.
generally my morning consists of struggling out of bed somewhere between 8 and 9. i never pop out of bed. its a little known belen-fact that if left to my own devices, i would sleep away most of my life. i wish it were different. but no, not really.
i do all those hygiene things that make one feel human. then i turn on the cd player on random (which, by the way, just recently accepted the Lust Murder Box demo cd into its depths…and those *4* songs play on random SO often – an amazing feat considering it’s 100 cd’s – thats like *8000* songs! – supposedly on random! the cd player likes stephy’s music, i suppose!)
i check and reply to email that seems important. i read the New York Times headlines email i get 🙂 then i open my workout bible (8 minutes in the morning) and embark on today’s workout.
then i start the coffee brewing. this is something that has come to be a regular part of the morning. i never was much for coffee in the “out of a pot, traditional” sense, but now the smell of it brewing is jsut too delicious to pass up.
while the coffee maker is doing its job, i pull out stuff for breakfast…sometimes bacon & eggs, sometimes fake breakfast sausage & scones.
and then i ease into my day.
the mornings are my quiet time…david is still asleep, my kitties come and give me snuggles, no one is IM’ing me or asking for anything. (it helps that i am on east coast time!)
all in all, i love my mornings. i like that i work out a bit now (although the ambitious part of me longs to get up an hour earlier to do yoga or get on the stairmaster). i like that i cook good breakfasts. i like that even if i solve a crisis before breakfast, i still usually have time to do a few “me” things.
oh yah, and on a side note, GOD BLESS LOW CARB DIETS! i put on my favorite pair of jeans yesterday for the first time in over a year 🙂