![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
I seem to be fond of my CAPSLOCK today...
Mar. 23rd, 2012 11:15 amA small miracle happened this morning. I got up early enough to eat breakfast at home.
And I know that sounds completely stupid, but since probably about when I was 10 ... so for the last 35 years or so ... I've gotten myself conditioned that on work days (or school days back when) I could only get myself out of bed like 15-20 minutes before I had to leave. Leaving myself JUST enough or CLOSE TO enough time to have a quick shower, aim the blow dryer at the front part of my head at least, pull on something to wear, feed the cat (the last bunch of years) and run out the door.
But this is an extremely unsatisfying way to start the day.
So this morning, through a combination of thinking about it a lot lately, writing about it a lot lately in my daily not!morning pages, and convincing myself that if I got up early today, it being a Friday, and a day w/o a rehearsal, that if that extra 1/2 hour of bad sleep I was "giving up" was really taxing me, I could always come home after work and take a nap, I got up at 7:15, a good 25 minutes earlier than I have any other day this week.
I have so little experience with getting up with time to spare I did sort of wander around for a minute after I fed the cat thinking "ok, now what?"
Then I made a cup of my fave Starbucks coffee in my Keurig, ate my yoghurt and granola sitting at the dining room table, and paged through a People magazine someone had given me. Then showered, and dressed, and was out the door at my normal 8ish time.
I'd like to think I could continue with this trend -- though production week is not the likeliest time for getting up early-for-me!
But we'll see. But it was a novel way to start this sunny Friday morning.
(Also, I switched out my flattened pillow for a foofier one from the guest bed. I think this was a good move. And my neck agrees! It's SO NICE to wake up without a headache. Although replacement!pillow is oddly springy and weird feeling.)
And I know that sounds completely stupid, but since probably about when I was 10 ... so for the last 35 years or so ... I've gotten myself conditioned that on work days (or school days back when) I could only get myself out of bed like 15-20 minutes before I had to leave. Leaving myself JUST enough or CLOSE TO enough time to have a quick shower, aim the blow dryer at the front part of my head at least, pull on something to wear, feed the cat (the last bunch of years) and run out the door.
But this is an extremely unsatisfying way to start the day.
So this morning, through a combination of thinking about it a lot lately, writing about it a lot lately in my daily not!morning pages, and convincing myself that if I got up early today, it being a Friday, and a day w/o a rehearsal, that if that extra 1/2 hour of bad sleep I was "giving up" was really taxing me, I could always come home after work and take a nap, I got up at 7:15, a good 25 minutes earlier than I have any other day this week.
I have so little experience with getting up with time to spare I did sort of wander around for a minute after I fed the cat thinking "ok, now what?"
Then I made a cup of my fave Starbucks coffee in my Keurig, ate my yoghurt and granola sitting at the dining room table, and paged through a People magazine someone had given me. Then showered, and dressed, and was out the door at my normal 8ish time.
I'd like to think I could continue with this trend -- though production week is not the likeliest time for getting up early-for-me!
But we'll see. But it was a novel way to start this sunny Friday morning.
(Also, I switched out my flattened pillow for a foofier one from the guest bed. I think this was a good move. And my neck agrees! It's SO NICE to wake up without a headache. Although replacement!pillow is oddly springy and weird feeling.)
