- Pushups/Forearm planks every morning but I also do ab work pretty regularly
- Before work I make my lunch and make Daddy a sandwich.
- Look at Facebook or Twitter and try to craft status updates/tweets that are entertaining, and for Lizzy's sake I often include something about when I wake up because she always wants to know and likes being able to find out via Twitter since I never see her until 6 at night/don't use my phone or really ever look at it at work. We got sick of this, though, so now I just try to write something interesting, and I have started a notecard that has a running list of my wake-up times starting at last Monday, and I will continue it until the end of the summer. Seeing when I wake up really makes it clear that I definitely wake up too early because it has said somewhere in the 4:15-4:40 range 7 out of the last 8 days.
- Catch up on my GoFugYourself reading since inevitably I don't finish reading the day's entries when I get home from work, so there's always something left to read
- Read Ask Ausiello/Ask Matt on EW.com and TVGuidemagazine.com when the blogs are new
- Mundane tasks like putting up my laundry/putting in a load of laundry to help my mother finish
- Straighten my hair every morning before work even when we go swimming because otherwise I just have too much time to kill
- Listen to my iPod or to music on the computer if I'm feeling so inclined, listening to "Wedding Bell Blues" and "Band of Gold" practically every day because neither song ever gets old to me
- Read whatever book I'm reading and eat cereal slowly
- Floss
- Tweeze my eyebrows
- Sit in the living room and stare out the window at the street, sometimes praying and sometimes doing nothing at all
- Take walks; I usually see people walking their dogs, and I've enjoyed seeing the sunrise a few times/seeing the sky reflecting beautifully off of the water.
- Many mornings I go downstairs with my mom, and we talk for a little while during her ironing of my khaki/navy pants that I have to wear for work. Unfortunately skillful ironing is not one of my abilities, and everyone I work with looks super well ironed all the time, so I don't want to be the white girl who can't get her crap together enough to iron her clothes properly for work.
- Talk/bond with Daddy since he's the only other person in the family who ever wakes up early, and sometimes we sit on the porch and talk, especially on the weekend. Plus Daddy is the one who takes me to work most mornings, so we have good times as I wait for him to be ready to leave.
- Contemplate my life, trying to think both about what I will do this year (senior year at Duke!) and the next, and also I often try to give myself an attitude adjustment so that I feel really positive when I first get to work. This positive feeling often somewhat lasts until about lunch when someone, usually Denaryus (who I believe is 8 because he was left back), will start touching me in a completely unnecessary manner, and I will grow severely irritated and yell at him to leave me alone because his hands are always on my shoulder/leg at some point in the day, and I'm just sick of it. I hate feeling harassed by young children which is totally how I feel when I have to endure unwanted touching which I have specifically asked them multiple times to stop doing. Unfortunately my attitude is usually less positive for the rest of the afternoon because I'm happiest when the children act nicer (which happens in the early morning Free Play hours and when they play outside on the playground; for some odd reason being free to play outside doesn't cause nearly as many problems as playing inside which could be related to their inability to share basketballs/jump ropes very well; of course we still have to watch them pretty closely outside, but it just seems easier to control when there aren't basketballs causing so many traumas of having "your ball stolen"). I've never really figured out my attitude exactly because on the one hand, I'm often super peppy/really eager to be at work because I love some of my fellow counselors so much that I can't wait to talk to them, but on the other hand the children, especially in my group, can be so rude to me sometimes that you would think I wouldn't miss being at work as much as I did when I was at the beach.
- Every so often I'll do a list, but more often I'll update another one quickly or comment on one of Ginny's or Lizzy's lists.
- Check the hour by hour forecast to make sure that the weather is favorable for going outside/possibly for whatever field trip we're taking on Wednesday.
- Update my daily planner with whatever random crap comes into my head to write; for instance I sometimes find out about TV premiere dates and make notes of these
- Add up my work hours for the week so when it's time to do my time card (every other week on Wednesday) I've already added everything together slowly so as not to make a mistake, and if I'm worried about not doing my arithmetic correctly, then I can check my work on my own calculator rather than that random, non-scientific, non-graphing/weirdly large calculator at work. Plus it means I can spend more time playing Knockout in the gym while all the other people are standing in the lobby trying to fill out their timecards and taking forever, so I have more time in which I can win the game and generally feel awesome about my newfound ability to make 3-point shots more often.
- Google random things that come into my head to look up or use IMDB to find out what some actor I've seen recently has done or how old he is, etc.
- Weigh myself using my parent's bathroom scale; this can actually be somewhat time-consuming trying to decide when weighing should occur because of how early I wake up and my tendency to want to weigh myself before eating, but I don't want to disturb them/run into anything if it's too early and too dark
- If need be, e-mail back people; for instance basically every reply e-mail I send to Ginny was sent early in the morning because I usually don't feel like writing e-mails when I get home from work, and my head feels so full of stuff that happened that day/often I have a headache.
jul 12 2009 ∞
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