The Daily: Back to 5 AM

Tuesday, April 19, 2022

5:05 am: The alarm went off five minutes ago. I fell back asleep pretty good, that was dangerous, I could have slept for at least another hour. 

6:10 am: Driving back from the gym feeling bleary eyed still. A four day weekend makes it very hard to get back on the early rising and gym going kind of motivation.

7:50 am: Kid is at school and I have to pick up groceries. My husband wonders why I don't wait to get groceries later in the day, when I've had coffee and food, but I think being around all that food first thing in the morning makes eating my breakfast even better. It's like delayed gratification (which usually I only care about when it comes to opening birthday gifts).

9:09 am: Breakfast and coffee done. Working on a story about how disgusting your dogs mouth is, it really is, they lick their butts and who knows what else, it will be posted tomorrow on The News With No Sound.

 

11:31 am: Eating lunch about two hours after I ate breakfast is kind of weird, but I did it. I've got to pick up the kid at 12:40 pm today, so I am rushed today.  Early out school days are a real pain in the ass.

11:43 am: Tried to leave a few minutes early because I have to use our entire savings account to put gas in the car (have you heard that gas prices are crazy right now), but the husband stops me on my way out to as me to do something that I could have done an hour ago. Annoyed.

12:00 pm: Like an idiot I tried to get gas at the Costco station but the line was out of the parking lot. It took all the extra time I had just to exit the parking lot without getting gas because there were so many cars. Dude, I hate Costco.

1:04 pm: Getting gas at the local corner station. It was only $100 to fill up the tank. We barely ever go to the beach, sometimes I am unsure why we live in California.

2:27 pm: The husband is sleeping again, he has his reasons, and the kid ran away from home to play with his friends in the neighborhood. Which I have mixed feelings about, but I guess that's a story for another day.

 

4:30 pm: The kid is back from the park, on his own, without me having to beg him to come home. That was a nice surprise. Now he is sitting on the couch like a lump, things always go back to normal.

 

6:02 pm: Eating dinner. I made a creamy pasta with ham and peas recipe that was kind of disastrous, its one of the downfalls of recipes from the internet.

 

7:48 pm: Back to the couch. Feeling tired and ready to call it a night. I really love going to bed early, really early, like 9 pm early.