Early Birdie

I wake up at 6am during the week, Monday through Friday for work. I used to be getting up at 5am to go to the gym then work. There is something about waking up early to start the day. You look out the window of your car on the drive and see the sun rising from across the sky and smell the air. Traffic is light when its not 9am, and my drive is short. I feel comfortable knowing that if I forget something I can turn around and come back and I am not late, because I make my own hours. I work a nine hour day and then go to the gym usually in the afternoons if not in the am. I feel the day is wasted if you sleep in, but it isn't wasted if you went to bed at 2am and really need to catch up on some z's. My mind may not be sharpest some days, but I become alert after a cocoa or a cup of coffee followed by some oat meal. At work I check my emails and begin tasks and cherish to-do lists and check them off as I go along. The day goes faster if you start earlier. Lately, though I have been working from home a lot and my schedule has been switching around. my supervisor made the suggestion maybe I should start taking a lunch to make my day stretch out a little and not jet out of here so quickly. I am willing to negotiate, it is a break in the day, it will be a challenege though to train myself to be patient during the day and take a break, put in my time, then head out. However, it could be for my benefit too. I think I forget some people who have children or crazy lives of their own their schedules have changed dramatically, possibly not getting in until 8am or 9am, on their average days, or it could be the need of sleep since they stay up so late. I wake up with the sun. My sister is hard core and gets up even earlier some days at 4am similar to a friend of mine. Their bedtime is probably 7 or 730 though which is crazy disciplined.  Sunrise makes you thankful for another blessed beautiful day!  Early bird at heart and enjoy making breakfaat for pala who  stay over and would much rather sleep in then wake up as they say "at god awful crack of dawn" well to each his or her own! 

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