Ahhh! This one is certainly in my wheelhouse! Each day starts not yet bright but certainly early at around 5am. Is it because I am a morning person ready to jump out of bed and get to being productive as soon as possible? Like some sort of motivational coach who wants to sell you on the importance early rising has towards healthy and consistent bowel movements? Is it because I became rigid in my schedule due to driving 73 miles each way to work several years ago? Absolutely and without any doubt it’s my lack of willingness to alter a pattern and ritual established when I had to allow 90 minutes for my commute (although my drive is now significantly shorter). Oh well!

Each morning when I wake up I scroll through Reddit and sometimes, when I am in the mood to have my information stream from a different tap, I use the news app on my phone. At ten minutes after the hour I start music on my phone and engage in a “dance workout” that in reality is more like stepping side to side for twenty minutes (if I am not done at 5:30 I am behind schedule!). I figure out what clothes I am going to wear which for the past three and a half weeks has been one of my 10+ black dresses with pockets and a long (usually) cardigan. Make-up, run my fingers through my hair when it’s curly or a brush when it’s a few days past due for a wash and is collecting dry shampoo, and my getting ready is almost complete.

I no longer need to leave the house by six, even though I am ready to leave the house by six, so I putter about, make coffee, eat something, until I get too impatient to stay home and leave for work where I promptly arrive at least thirty minutes before I need to.

So there it is, a morning with Jamie. The weekend is almost the same but starts at 6:30 and doesn’t involve going to work. Feel free to copy this plan if you want hahaha!!!

JS