What part of your routine do you always try to skip if you can?
My most unfavourite part of my daily routine is actually getting up in the morning!
Unlike all the older people I know, I am not an early riser, nor have I ever been, aside for a two month period in the year 2000 when I was up every morning at 6 for a walk around the local country park – a time when I really wanted to lose those extra pounds.
When I was going to college, when I was working, when I had a daughter who had to be taken to school or got up and dressed, I was up and ready – but, at the weekends or during school holidays and when I didn’t have a temporary job, I would stay in bed until I had to get up. When we had the shop, which opened at 9am, I would get up at 8 and be ready for opening but, on Sundays, I probably wasn’t up before 9:30 or 10.
I can get up very early if necessary, though. When we needed to be at Ashford International to get the Eurostar at 8, I got up with plenty of time. On the day that I needed to be at the hospital at 7 am, to have my knee replaced, I was up and ready.
But, on days when there is no real reason to be up and smiling and raring to go, I’m not. I always get up in the night for a pee and then I wake up naturally around 9 to 9:30 and, seeing the time, tell myself, “I’d better get up,” but I have been known to fall asleep again and wake up about 10:30.
I know that this isn’t a ‘good’ thing to do, if for no other reason than breakfast is late and lunch is even later. Also, my morning routine of reading the news (online) followed by attempting the puzzle page of the New York Times, is completely messed up!
Julian gets up around 7:30 most mornings; my friend Myrna gets up around 6, makes herself some tea then goes back to bed to watch the news; my mother-in-law used to get up around 6 every morning, summer and winter; my mother used to get up around 6 until she decided she would just not bother and stayed in bed with the lights off all day and all night. I don’t want to turn into my mother so I will make myself get up every day but I seriously doubt that I will ever get up before 9 am and feel happy about it!
White Haired Woman 
We really are either a lark or an owl. I’m a lark and luckily so is my life partner, Don. He takes it to extreme though ,often getting up at 4.30 a.m.
We have tea at six and I pity everyone who is still abed at that time during the Summer.It’s the quietest,most beautiful time of the day and you miss it,Candy.(sad face)
The thing is, I also go to bed really early. I’d be good for nothing anyway if I stayed up so will often go up soon after 7.00….not to sleep but to read, email, chat on Whatzap to my daughter in Gozo and watch Judge Judy. (smiley face)
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Well, we are twins with a difference! At 7pm I’m still cooking dinner and at 11.30 pm I’m singing a couple of songs to Lola before we go to sleep. At 2 am I’m up for a pee and again around 6am – so I experience a moment or two of early morning before I go back to bed for another 3 hours of sleeeeeep! xx
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