This Is My Life

To Me:

This new routine you're trying to follow where you go to sleep late and get up early is interesting. I can't wait to see how it turns out, because the benefits are potentially manifold! Think about it, losing 2.5 hours of sleep or more every day and gaining it back in what could be productive time instead! That's pretty awesome, really. Still, I would like to offer me some suggestions on how to make sure those hours are spent productively, and not sitting bleary-eyed on the couch, waiting for the normal wake-up time to arrive.

1) Get your clothes out the night before.
~This way, you won't have to sneak out of the room in your jammies, afraid of waking your wife. If you ready your clothes the night before, you can actually get dressed after the shower, instead of shivering with cold until she gets up.

2) Make sure the heat is on.
~The strange set up in your house allows for turning off the heat with a switch. This is great in the summer, because the set up is strange and kicks on the whole system just to heat water, but in the colder months? Brrr.

3) Have a plan.
~Okay, you got up, great! Now what? Well, shower, sure, but what are you going to do after that? Are you awake just to be awake, or did you actually want to use the time to do something productive? Spending extra time surfing the web is great too, but is that really why you're getting up an hour early every morning, just for some one-on-one internet time? Some things to NOT include on this list would be: vacuuming, laundry, dishes. Other than that, you're good to go. Make a list.

4) Let the dogs outside.
~You should have done this, this morning. You knew as you left the room that the dogs would probably be disturbed and would wake up your wife, but you reasoned that making all that noise would wake her even more. Don't try to fool yourself; you know you're trying. Let the dogs out when you get up, bring them back in, and put them back to sleep. It's not a big deal.

5) Live Journal does not count as productive time.
~On this note, go cook your wife some breakfast. She'd like bacon. Trust me. You'll like bacon, too.

Thanks for your time,
~You