5:00 a.m. is not a time I like to see with my eyes open.
Maybe in a previous life, I was an Amish farmer, greeting the dim morning with a sturdy cheerfulness, content in my pre-dawn liturgy of milking cows and slathering butter on thick brown bread. Maybe 5:00 was just a quiet friend, a strong and familiar face nodding thoughtfully in the barn.
Maybe I was once a sunrise junkie, Mother Nature’s confidante. Maybe my dew-dampened sun salutes woke each day in a meditative rush of energy. Maybe 5:00 was just a cleansing breath in my core, radiating through me like controlled calmness and eco-love and heightened awareness of my early earth.
Maybe I used to be a 2000-watt dancing queen, holding my liquor like a Mr. Martini himself and shaking what my mama gave me until I suddenly burned out with a POP. Maybe 5:00 was just another dazzling bit of a heavily-jeweled night, the Energizer Bunny still thumping out bass lines by the millisecond, an extended invitation for me to prove that my hips don’t lie and it’s bananas, B-A-N-A-N-A-S.
Maybe in some alternate dimension I could face 5:00 a.m. without impersonating a rabid badger. I could go from 0 to upright in five seconds minutes flat. I could open my eyes, dislodge the sand therein, and manage a complete subject-verb sentence before coffee. But now, here, in this current existence of which I partaking? Not so much.
(Three guesses as to when I got up this morning.)
Was this by chance a side effect of being the mother of small children?
A couple of factors that I have found can have a big impact, even if you are not a perpetual “morning person” are:
1) recent habit
2) a good reason to be awake
Right now I am in the habit of getting up for work around 5, and I don’t have any problem with it during the week. But good luck trying to get me even semi-conscious before about 9 on the weekend.
Oh…I know why you were up…I also know, that a day later you’re still not awake =D
Lizardek – Indirectly. We had a child-related appointment to do all sorts of bureaucratic things, like let the US know Sophie exists. You would not believe the amount of paperwork necessary to do that; we should have just made Sophie scream at the government officials until they declared her legitimate already.
Tom – Hmmmm, good reasons? Like tiny, very awake people who rely on me for food and clothing and cleanliness and entertainment? Nah…
Daniel – ::snarls::
As someone who wakes up at 4:30 every morning for work, I feel your pain. But like all things in life, you learn to adapt. What you describe feels like me at any point past 11pm…haha. Hope you got a nap in there or something relaxing at least 🙂 xoxo
‘A rabid badger…’
Now I would pay to see that. 🙂
I didn’t go to bed until 5 last night. Does that count?