Dear Ready Early

Dear Ready Early,

I've had a rough week. ROUGH. Blew out my knee. Got sick again. The kids at school are totally out of control. And for a combination of all of those things, I haven't been sleeping well at all. Not at all - which, of course, compounds the roughness of all said things.

But today - today, I am you. Completely you, and it feels nice. I have nothing to do for the next half-hour as I sit at my computer at school, and I am pretty happy about it. Today is still going to be a bit rough, of course, but at least I have these minutes at the beginning of the day - the calm spot before the storm - to write in my blog and feel some peace. Quite different from most days when I'm running around trying to get prepared right as the kids are set to come in.

And it's Friday. I always know that I can survive any one day (no matter how bad), so I'm going to make it. And then I get two days to just do whatever I can to get myself on track.

Now, I have never been a "morning person." Through most of my life, I have always preferred to sleep in and stay in bed as long as humanly possible every morning. But, because of this job and my need to get up quite early, I have slowly moved along the spectrum more towards "morning person." And I think a lot of that can be contributed to wanting to be you, Ready Early. My life - and work - gets a lot easier on any given day when I'm you. It also helps when I'm organized and ahead of the game in terms of planning and all that (as in days ahead of schedule). This job has really made me appreciate you and your uncle, Organization.

The only thing about being you right now is that it makes me want to sit back and just space out and enjoy this time I have, instead of putting any real thought and wit into this letter. And, of course, as I am still not quite a morning person, I am a bit tired and brain-addled, as well.

And so I will end this now. But just understand that you are appreciated, and I plan to enjoy you fully for the next 20 minutes.

Aaaaaaaahhhhhh . . .
CVT