Morning Meanderings…

Published on by Sheila (Book Journey)

So here is the result of my super woman attempts this week to be all that I can be and get up early and work out with my friend Jenifer at 6:00 am daily:   A for effort……  D- for over all results

I had no idea how much that would throw off my schedule.  Or maybe it is just the wrong time of year but I really ended up feeling I was being pulled like taffy in 20 different directions.  I had to stop and review my week since last Friday:

  • Friday – worked out, worked, Builders Christmas Party

  • Saturday – oil change, picked up Chance, met Justin in St Cloud for a day of hanging out (hour from home) Justin  is now home from college until mid January

  • Sunday – All day all Brad, then drove Brad in a snow storm to Fargo ( 2 1/2 hours away) to get him to where he needed to be to catch his plane on Monday for boot camp.  Drove back (another 2 1/2 hours) in snow storm home about 11:30 pm.

  • Monday – one of our trucks break down so I have to drive to St Cloud to bring back the driver of the truck (another road trip).  Dinner that evening with friends where we giggled and talked a lot and I didnt get back home until after 9 pm

  • Tuesday- Up to start the workouts with Jennifer and meet her at 6:30 am only to find out I should have been there at 6.  Worked in office all day, home work, dinner, shot.

  • Wednesday – up to do the 6 am thing, in office by 8 (pretty impressive!) working on large project that has to be done this week, stay late, get home, son wants to hang out and do a movie, so I scrap my evening plan (because we do anything for our kids!) and go to a movie with him then come home and hang out with him until I drop – but want him to drop first.

  • Thursday – 6 am workout…. in office by 8 am (yay – but a tired yay!) huge project includes a mail merge, 1200 names…. not going well, needs to hit the mail on Friday and I wind up staying in office until 5 pm.  Rush then to get pizza for my hubby as I have not planned dinner, up until almost midnight.

I tell you all this because I have to share with you the result of my super woman attempt.  I was in the office yesterday early (as stated) and being the first one in the office I made the coffee, did a little straightening, etc.  Around noon, I realized I had been so busy I had skipped my morning oatmeal which is a a daily ritual for me.  I go back in the office kitchen and proceed to put the oatmeal in a coffee filter.  Yup.  I did not pull out a bowl…. but put it in the coffee filter.

Unbelievable!  I am so thankful I caught it and didn’t run it through the coffee pot too!

So today – I skipped the morning work out.  I slept until 6:45 am and leisurely got up and got my coffee and now at 7:40 am… I am still here, relaxing.  I wont give up on the morning workouts, I just think I will switch them up to every other day.  Today I work in the office to continue prepping the mailing.  Fridays a re normally my day off but it didn’t work out that way this week.  Tonight we have our company Christmas Party.  Another busy day.

Any crazy stories you would like to share so the oatmeal incident doesn’t seem so “call the men with the straight jackets“?

31 thoughts on “Morning Meanderings…”

  2. nothing comes to mind but thank you for the laugh

    I know I’ve don’t stuff like that….oh, one Sunday I went to church with the wrong shoes on. I’d been up around the clock and I slipped on my yard shoes instead of my dress shoes. Does that count?

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  3. I do not envy you-not the same thing-but I went to court and left my cell phone on the kitchen counter yesterday. I do not like when I get over tired like this. Which is how I am feeling right now-I have a Christmas function tonight and being on the couch almost sounds like more fun. Does pouring creme into the skillet instead of my teacup count.

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  6. Sadly, I would have turned on the coffee pot…lol. And we would have laughed and laughed. You had a heck of a week. My hair would have started falling out by Wednesday. I’m taking an internet break for the next two days. We have registration stuff today and they messed up on Billy’s blood work which means he’ll have to go back on Monday. We almost have registration completed for his next college…at least he has his classes.

    Take a break and relax. I’ll be listening to audios today…lol.

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  7. I’ve only made it to one morning workout this week! That was yesterday, after dropping off grandson Noah at school.

    The call of the books and the computer…my downfall! I don’t even try to do it every morning. I’d be good if I made it every other day!

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    1. Oh Staci a nap would have been wonderful. I wound up being late at work today – the merge went horrible and I left work at 5 and had to be at our Christmas party at 6. Came home from that after 11 pm. SHOT.

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  10. I know exactly how being tired can make you do strange things. I once worked overtime 6 days a week for 3 months. On one of my days off I had to go to the store. I must have been half asleep while getting ready because I put on two different shoes. I don’t know how many people noticed, but no one said anything. When I got home a family member told me. Why didn’t they catch it before I left???

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  11. I’m impressed that you got up early to work out so often this hectic week!

    re: Oatmeal in the coffee filter – that is a good one (and it was *after* coffee, right?). I’ve run the coffee without the grounds (water only), and poured OJ in my cereal (different occasions, not one crazy morning!)

    I hope you have a relatively relaxing weekend!

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    1. Hi Dawn….. thanks for the well wishes! Looks like Saturday is going to be a rough start – trying to complete todays horrible mess of a merge but maybe by afternoon it can be over? For a little while? Maybe???

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  12. I’m laughing with you, not at you. If we don’t laugh about these things, we’ll go crazy! I got home from a harrowing day of grading final exams and seeing that I had 5 students fail my class. We are pretty much forced to pass these students so I started calling and emailing home to let these students know their final options. I was so brain dead when I got home that I started a load of laundry in the washer and turned on the dryer. An hour later I went to empty the dryer only to find it empty! What a waste of precious energy!!

    I hope your weekend is more relaxing than your week has been! 🙂

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  15. I can relate. Actually had an afternoon off. Was to meet my husband for lunch at 1:30 and got there at 2. By the time we finished, the rain had started turning to snow. He went home and I went to the book store. Got so engrossed looking for books for work (a library) that I didn’t pay attention to the weather. At 4 they announced they were closing the store. After gassing up, I headed home. It took me 3 hours to go the 6 miles from the city to our little town and another half hour to make the 10 miles from town to our home. We live in NE TN and got caught in that storm. I grew up in the north so am used to driving in snow. However, most people down here do not, plus they aren’t set up to clear the roads very rapidly.
    I’m home, the power was out only a short time, and I don’t have to go back to work until Monday morning. We were a lot more lucky than most.

    Hang in there. The Holiday madness will be over soon.

    Have a great Holiday Season!

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