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Waking up is hard to do

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Works-for-Me Wednesday

Around this time a few years ago, I decided to start getting up earlier. As I recall, that worked for awhile. And then I stopped setting the alarm clock again, and I kept sleeping until just before the kids woke up. Or until the kids woke me up. Whichever.

I’ve decided, though, that it was a good idea. Just like I said two years ago, getting up earlier would give me time to get ready, have breakfast and put my mind in a good place before the small folk come downstairs. So I’ve re-enacted my plan, with a twist.
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I also complain during heat waves

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I’ll give you a winter prediction. It’s gonna be cold, it’s gonna be gray, and it’s gonna last you for the rest of your life.

There is another powdered-sugar-fine snow falling outside my window right now. I’m wondering, on this 20th-or-so day of Oh My Scarves and Mittens conditions, just how do you residents of the frosty Northern climes do this every winter? You must be bred of hardier stock than I. My nose is runny, my toes are cold, and I am so hoping that tomorrow’s forecasted 45-degree high makes an appearance.

Updated to add: And now I have a cold, which means I will be even grumpier. Dagnabbit.

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busted flat (not) in baton rouge

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We’re sitting in a burger king + gas station parking lot. We’ve been here for 2.5 hours, because the van broke down and we had to wait for rockford’s folks to pick up the kids and for a tow truck. So i’m watching nose-pickers and potential drug deals and trying to post from a blackberry. And i’m feeling nearly faded as my jeans, for sure.