Some astute people may have noticed that the frequency of new posts on said blog seem a bit random. Of course, there’s a reason for this. Before, I would get up in the morning, see my lovely wife off to work, make a latte and maybe chow down some breakfast. About 10 A.M., my dog would get antsy and need another walk, but other than that, I’d do my morning routine of checking my regular websites, read a bit and about 10:30 A.M., I would crank out another blog post which would get published mid-day. Also during this time, I’d keep an eye on what tweets were getting slung about and shoot out a few as well.
Things are different now. My bedtime ranges anywhere from 12-2:30 A.M. and sleep is interrupted usually between 3:30-5 A.M. for another hour or so up taking care of incidentals. Occasionally, I have to be up around 7-8:30 A.M. to assist with Melanie, but my dear wife knows how tough things are for me at that time so this is only if it is a dire necessity. My waking time is now between 8-11 A.M., wholly dependent on how the night before went. Oops, missed a part…the dog needs a walk in the morning and that has recently fallen to me as well.
What this means is that my day really doesn’t get going until nearly noon which is now when I start having a bowl of cereal for breakfast and lunch becomes something of an illusion. My morning lattes are now mid-afternoon lattes and everything in my day just gets shoved back. This includes the blog writing. It’s not as if I don’t want to throw something up there but it has to do with my morning routine and the order in which to get things done.
See, I happen to know that I’m in the top hundred list of most unpleasant people in the world just after waking up and I’m confident that I can have that confirmed by family members and/or people who have seen me wake up at an hour earlier than 9 A.M. At one of my old jobs, I’m pretty sure there was an unwritten rule to leave me the hell alone until 10 A.M. Not that I was mean, just seemed bitter and it was just better to talk to me when my faculties were more in swing. Picture what it is like now that things are coming around for me at least three hours later, realizing I have less time in the day and forced to make choices of what to do and what not to do.
The blog surprisingly makes the cut often enough to keep things rolling, but as you can tell from last week, sometimes everything goes to hell. That’s the way it is with a new baby. Someone wrote that you are no longer in control of your life and that the baby now is king or queen. Very true. In fact, all we’re missing right now is peeling grapes for our daughter because everything else would qualify. We feed her, bathe her, oil her down in pleasant fragrances and attend to each and every whim. Regardless, this is all worth it as in a few years, we have a dishwasher, trash disposal person, dog walker and more if we tell her that we’re building character.
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Uh – yeah – hold that thought “dishwasher-trash disposal person-dog walker” etc, etc. We’ll be sure to ask you about that in a few years to see how the “character building” is going. (Would that reason – “building character” – have worked on you and your siblings, particularly as it may have related to nail removal from barn boards?)
LOL, I should have known that would have come up. You have to admit I think we all turned out pretty well, so maybe it worked.
Incidentally, I should have framed the last paragraph a bit different. I meant it to come off as being snarky and funny, not serious at all. We do have some ideas on how we want to do chores and the like, but life is much different than when we grew up and it will have to accordingly change.