How to start an AWESOME day!

Ah, yes.  Today I AM awesome!

Woke this morning at 6:30, after having gone to bed about midnight.  That is the best thing approaching a decent night's sleep that I've had in as long as I can remember.  Normally I'll crawl to bed long about 1am or perhaps as late as 2, and pretty much always have woken up at 4am. 

I lay there in bed for twenty minutes just allowing myself to wake slowly and think about what I wanted to accomplish today.  Knowing that I did NOT have to rush to go tend my "Farm" gave me a lot of flexibility.  I thought about the dream I'd just had  (I actually DREAMED about walking away from my Farmville trap!) and as I lay there I straightened out my covers and pillows.  (This is as close to "making my bed" as I think I'm ever going to come.)

Kitty was sleeping at the foot of my bed, as usual.  So she gets petted a little, because she loves me and feels sad if I ignore her.  Such a loyal little cat she is.  People say cats don't care, but they never met my Kitty.  (Yes, Kitty IS her name.)

As per my plan that I had planned just while lying there, I got up and put my robotic servants to work.  That means I got the washer and dryer and dishwasher all going, after having put away whatever clean stuff they'd produced from last night's labors.

Actually, though, that wasn't the first thing I did.  I don't know why, but this morning I felt really good and I wanted to look as good as I felt.  I took a shower last night (to "baptize" myself into my new life) so I was already clean and my hair was shiny and fluffy.  Yesterday at the store I picked up a little new makeup.  So this morning the VERY first thing I did was to freshen up my face and put the new makeup on.  Just a very natural shade of lipstick, really, and some fresh mascara.  But it was enough to make me look totally awake and ready for the day!  Then I put on my apron and started doing those basic morning chores. I was very proud to think of myself looking like an interpretation of Donna Reed or something in my makeup, pretty hair, laciest pyjamas and cleaning apron!

I shined the kitchen sink, fed the fish, and revelled in the smooth and shiny floor which I had mopped last night.  I also took a caffeine pill, because I have decided that if 90% of the adult population drinks caffeine to get their mornings going, it would not be out of line for me to accept that help too.  It's better than allowing myself to schlump my way through another day because I'm trying to be noble or drug-free or something.  That strategy hasn't worked.  Avoiding caffeine hasn't made my body's natural energy regulate itself and rise up.  It has just allowed me to fall into that terrible depression and lethargic slump from which I am now finally emerging.  With the help of caffeine, among other things.

(Let me state very clearly right now that among those "other things" I'm mentioning I do NOT mean any other sort of drugs.  But I will talk about the "other things" in a minute.)

Okay, so the laundry is going, the dishes are going, the kitchen is 90% shiny, and I look beautiful.  I took off my pajamas and put on a pair of shorts, and went for a bike ride.  I remembered how fun those early-morning rides were when I used to do them.  All alone in the crisp morning air before the day gets hot and the screaming children come out to play.  It was wonderful.  I did two laps fully around the parking lot including the big hill in top gear!  I was amazed that I had the strength for that.  Then my heart began feeling like it was beating a bit too hard, so I went back to my easier half-laps back and forth along the relatively flat section.  I did probably 12 or 15 laps total.  Not enough to be amazed at my endurance, but enough to break a sweat, certainly.  And this was just intended to be an easy morning ride to greet the day.  I wanted to save a little energy to ride more later if I wanted to.

Oh, yeah.  Forgot to mention that I was also good enough to remember to take out all the garbage on my way towards taking my first lap.  I bought some bungee cords the other day so I could easily strap a large Rubbermaid container to the Mundo and carry out garbage that way.  It worked well, and the setup stayed strapped on until I finished my entire ride.  I feel very pleased that my house is now so much cleaner and fresher than it was at this same time yesterday!

So that's what I've done in my first two hours this morning.  Today I feel like a live human being! 

This blog post is getting a little bit long, so although I do still have more I'd like to talk about I am going to stop here for now.  Right now I'm just revelling in the fact that I finally feel free!  I hardly know what to do with the rest of my day, but I'm going to go off now and start making plans.  I don't want to lose this momentum. 

It is time for breakfast.  :)