I want to first be clear that I have NEVER been a morning person! I don’t drink coffee except for a few days two times when I was eight years old. That was the school year when both my Abuela (My Mom’s mom) and my aunt Rita (My Mom‘s sister) died. It was a really tough time for me and my extended family. We spent days at the funeral home and the only place we could go was downstairs to the lounge.
All of the adults were extremely grief stricken and the only thing we could do was drink coffee. When I say that I drank coffee at that time, really, it was about 1/3 cup of sugar, about 1/3 cup of powdered creamer and just a little more than a splash of coffee. When mixed together it was a very light beige color, almost white. So, I really wasn’t a coffee drinker! I drank it because I was young and bored and there was nothing else to do.
Growing up, I never liked the smell of coffee! It reminded me of the teacher’s lounge in my elementary school and I remember getting papers back with dried, brown, coffee stains on them accidentally spilled by my teachers. The disgust continued when I worked at 7-Eleven the summer after my senior year and before college. I worked the morning shift a few days a week and I had to brew no less than 40 pots of coffee every morning. It was GROSS!
I worked for 12 years and my colleagues were amazed that I didn’t drink coffee but I was so pleasant and chipper in the morning. I would explain to them that I was NOT a morning person and that I would have to get up between 4:00 and 430 every morning so when I saw them at 8 o’clock in the teachers lounge; it felt like it was afternoon for me.
Now that I no longer work, Sean or my Mom will get me out of my bed before he goes to school and this is me every single morning:
I figured out that it takes about three hours for my body to “Warm up“ in order to begin to get ready for the day. In the winter, I say that my body has to, “Thaw out.” During the week, it is perfect because Good Morning Football is three hours long.
I would say that it takes close to an hour before I can put my contacts in but I have my Kiefer and Atkins shake drank before the end of the show. If I was too, “Out of it” in the beginning of the show, I learned that a replay of the show plays directly after the first viewing so I get what was going on in the beginning if I was not awake enough.
I bought a Keurig last year for my house because both Sean and my Mom are coffee drinkers. I will NOT have a coffee pot brewing coffee in my kitchen! The smell would be too GROSS for me! I stay out of my kitchen until their coffee has brewed and the kitchen has aired out for at least a half hour. However, I want to say there was a few times when the coffee that was brewing in the teachers lounge at work smelled good. But, I knew it wasn’t going to taste good!
I really felt like this meme this morning! Because I no longer work, I can let my morning feelings show now. I’m pretty much by myself when I feel this way but Sean has seen the face a few times and it kind of startled him. I do NOT ever see myself being a morning person because having MS is really, really difficult!!!