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Situation: It's a weekend morning, and you're up before the rest of the house. All is quiet and calm.
Tea time: With a light breakfast, perhaps some toast. Go down to the kitchen to prepare it, eat the toast while the tea steeps, then bring the tea back up to your favorite curl-up-and-whatever spot.
Tea type: If you're like me, and are going to take this time to read or craft, pick a tea that's good even if it's gone a little cool, as you may not sip it quite quickly enough. Alternatively, if you want a full-blown tea-time, make a pot, slap a cozy over it, and use a very small cup and pour out little bits at a time.
I have never been a morning person. I'm not exactly a late-night person, either, though, as I fade around 2am no matter what. But I'd always been a big fan of sleeping in on the weekends. Even with the dog, who would wake me up in the mornings to go out, I'd still crawl back into bed and sleep until noon. Recently, though, an annoying thing has happened. No matter what time I go to bed (anywhere from 10pm to 3am!) I've been getting up - and staying up - at 9am.
Now, I should explain that I do get up during the week at 6am, to be to work at 7am, but I'm not happy about it. I don't feel awake, and I rush through getting ready and running out the door (because the alarm goes off at 6, I don't always - okay, never - get up right away. Yay, snooze button!) and I don't really feel awake until much later in the day. I have "sleep inertia", I do not properly transition into wakefulness. The first 5-10 minutes I'm awake I'm very confused and disoriented and can convince myself of just about anything to justify "just five more minutes" of sleep. And I've always been like that.
This morning, however, a line was crossed. I woke up at 7am. And stayed up.
I worked very hard to become a morning person all through college and when I started working, and nothing ever did it. If I'm becoming one now, when I've developed a social life and light-night parties (crafting parties, but still!) and have friends that all stay up late... not funny, universe, not funny.
But if I have to have mornings foisted upon me, I will great them with a nice cup of tea and at least get some cross-stitching done!
Tea time: With a light breakfast, perhaps some toast. Go down to the kitchen to prepare it, eat the toast while the tea steeps, then bring the tea back up to your favorite curl-up-and-whatever spot.
Tea type: If you're like me, and are going to take this time to read or craft, pick a tea that's good even if it's gone a little cool, as you may not sip it quite quickly enough. Alternatively, if you want a full-blown tea-time, make a pot, slap a cozy over it, and use a very small cup and pour out little bits at a time.
I have never been a morning person. I'm not exactly a late-night person, either, though, as I fade around 2am no matter what. But I'd always been a big fan of sleeping in on the weekends. Even with the dog, who would wake me up in the mornings to go out, I'd still crawl back into bed and sleep until noon. Recently, though, an annoying thing has happened. No matter what time I go to bed (anywhere from 10pm to 3am!) I've been getting up - and staying up - at 9am.
Now, I should explain that I do get up during the week at 6am, to be to work at 7am, but I'm not happy about it. I don't feel awake, and I rush through getting ready and running out the door (because the alarm goes off at 6, I don't always - okay, never - get up right away. Yay, snooze button!) and I don't really feel awake until much later in the day. I have "sleep inertia", I do not properly transition into wakefulness. The first 5-10 minutes I'm awake I'm very confused and disoriented and can convince myself of just about anything to justify "just five more minutes" of sleep. And I've always been like that.
This morning, however, a line was crossed. I woke up at 7am. And stayed up.
I worked very hard to become a morning person all through college and when I started working, and nothing ever did it. If I'm becoming one now, when I've developed a social life and light-night parties (crafting parties, but still!) and have friends that all stay up late... not funny, universe, not funny.
But if I have to have mornings foisted upon me, I will great them with a nice cup of tea and at least get some cross-stitching done!
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