I don’t drink coffee. In my adult life, I’ve just never had a taste for it. When I was working, my colleagues and friends would constantly comment on the fact that I was, “A morning person.” They were so amazed that I did this without the use of any caffeine in the morning. I felt the need to immediately set them straight. Very early on in my employment, I would wake up in the morning every day at 4:30 AM. I needed that time to let my body, “wake up” and adjust to being, “awake.” I would tell them that to me, it was not 8 o’clock in the morning but rather, noon. The only reason I was so chipper was because it was lunchtime to me. A couple years before I stopped working, my Mom would come over to my house to drive me to work. Now, she IS a morning person!
It took a very long time for Sean and me to get used to her chipper morning self! I think because I am NOT a morning person, and the fact that I raised Sean by myself, I also have made him to NOT be a morning person as well. From since he was at a very young age, I would wake him up and that is all the speaking we would do to each other until we left for school. (I’d drop him off at my Mom’s house and drive myself to work).
When I stopped driving myself to work, I still would get up super early and be awake at 4:30 just getting used to, “being awake.” Now that I no longer work, I don’t need to wake up at 4:30 to make it to work on time, but rather, my, “morning” starts a lot later now.
Even though my morning starts later, today was one of those days where I needed A LOT of time to, “wake up”! It was really rough and I looked like that little girl in that picture! Even after I got ready for the day, I was really warm just after I got ready but then I started to freeze! So here I am, sitting in my sweatshirt and winter DC high school winter beanie that Sean got for me for Christmas with my arms and mouth inside my sweatshirt.
I am watching, Love and Other Drugs for the third time in three days. (It’s free on HBO OnDemand – just know that it’s on HBO so don’t watch it with little kids). In about an hour and eight minutes into it, I begin to get sad and at about an hour and 11 minutes in, I cry. EVERY SINGLR TIME!
So here I am, watching this movie with a winter hat on because I am freezing but I thought about that picture and being in the teachers’ lounge in the morning (because I used to have first hour prep) and defending the reason that I do NOT drink coffee but I am NOT a morning person!