Mornings

This post may seem a little ironic following my last post.... but whatever.

So, I have already shared that I get hangry, but there is another time when I can be not so pleasant.... when I am tired. And this is most often the case in the morning.

I HATE mornings!

This would be the BEST thing to wake up too!

Every new day is a new battle.

Waking up sounds so simple when you say it you know? It's like "wake up." Just open your eyes, roll out of bed, get going............ as if.

And my alarm clock? my worst enemy!

Now, if I've had a good 10 to 12 hours of sleep, then I can just "wake up." But get anything less than that, and waking up becomes raising the dead. Its a miserable, draining process.

My poor mother is usually the recipient of this morning anger. She cannot win in the mornings. I'll come upstairs in a half daze like a zombie and she will ask me a simple question about my plans for the day like, "Do you work today?" Normally such a question would be no problem, but if its before 10 am, then this ball of murderous rage boils up in the pit of my stomach that makes me want to yell something like "I GOT UP!!! I DESERVE A MEDAL!! WHY ARE YOU HARPING ON ME LIKE THIS?!?!" Lucky, I have the ability to regulate my emotions and I can usually take a deep breath and get a pleasant response out. But the anger lives on.... until about ten when I fully come to life and I can see clearly.

When I was a missionary we had to get up at 6:30 every morning. I don't know how I accomplished this as waking up anytime before 7:45 is near impossible for me, but somehow I did it. Luckily, my first companion when I got to Virginia was not a morning person either. I remember that he specifically told me that we would get along better if we didn't speak until after our personal study time which ended at 10. It was miraculous! We got along so well! I think that it should be a rule of society that we just simply do not interact until after 10. In fact sometimes I want to make a sign for myself that says "Danger! Not a morning person. Communicate before 10am at your own risk!" sigh.... if only.

So there is me, and my hatred of the morning, and then there is this completely other breed of human that wakes up super early full of energy and optimism and rainbows and sunshine.... and in the mornings, I want to kill them. Mostly.... some days not as much, but usually. Good thing we can be friends later in the day!

In closing, one of the most inspired quotes of the decade.

"In and ideal world no one would talk before 10am. People would just hug, because waking up is really hard." - Zooey Deschanel