Day 13: Sunshine
The sun is rising earlier and earlier, dawn is breaking pretty much at 6:30 and I have to say that its a lot easier getting up with the sun. I’m sure this will be interesting in the summer when the sun apparently rises around 4 or 5.
Day 12: spaced
This wasn’t the easiest of mornings to get up, and I can tell its going to take me a little while to get focused today. Maybe I’ll watch a planet earth to get my day going.
Day 11: Yoga
So I figure after two weeks of waking up and getting the hang of it, I can start adding some sort of exercise routine. I came across an article of a new yoga app that was featured on Good Morning America so, another step to build myself to be morning person extraordinaire. I did yoga this morning – the relieve stress workout. I already feel less stressed.
For those of you interested its Yoga with Deepak Chopra and it only cost me £0.59 – which is way cheaper than going to a class. It has instructional videos and lots of different sequences to choose from.
Here is a little link:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/06/deepak-chopras-yoga-routi_n_488178.html
I know this sounds like a promo – well, it pretty much is a promo. But I like it, so I’m going to talk about it.
On to the day!
Day 10: Late Start
I did get up at 6:30, but laid in bed for a while, then took a shower and before I know it its 7:30. I feel like its so late. It funny how two weeks ago I would consider this early. I now feel like I’ll be in a rush to finish all the things I wanted to before I head off to school. But its Friday, it will be a long Friday, but its still Friday. I think this is going to be a work heavy weekend for me and a work heavy week next week.
Hope everyone has a great weekend.
Day 9: I’m Up
Today wasn’t so bad.
But I have a lot to do this morning.
Have a great day everyone!
Day 8: Reluctant
It was really hard to get out of bed today. And so far I have been sluggish. Its already 7 and I’m just now getting to this post. Well, they always say it gets the hardest in the middle, and I’m close to the middle. I think once I get past this week things will get a little easier.
I also did a little math in my head. Since I’m not counting weekeneds, I will be getting up early for 6 weeks. And I’m just on week two. But that means I will finish up April 2, which happens to kick off my Easter break for school. So I guess it will be right on time!
Ok – lots to do today, I’ve lounged around enough, better get to work.
Day 7: Guilt
So it really feels like its not an option anymore to sleep past 6:30. Once my alarm goes off – I really can’t go back to sleep, I just lie there until I get up. I think its mostly guilt if I don’t get up because so many people will know with my diligent updates to Facebook and this blog. So even if its guilt getting me up, I’m still getting up!
Last night I did a Rotary Presentation at the Dunbar Club, which is about a 20 min train ride SE of Edinburgh. The town is right on the coast, but I didn’t get to see the water really because it was so dark outside. But it seemed really lovely and there were lots of stars out, which I mostly don’t look at since I’ve lived in cities the past 5 years. The dinner was a lot of fun and my presentation went well. I had a few nice folks come up to me afterward offering up their grandson’s screenplay and informing me that they had been to Big Springs, TX! The world keeps getting smaller…
I took some pictures of my lovely audience and me presenting the good ‘ol Levelland Banner to the club’s President: Tom Badger.
Enjoy the pictures! (There’s only 3)
Rotary Dunbar Club view 1
Rotary Dunbar Club view 2
LL Banner to Dunbar Prez
Day 6=Monday
Ok, so I didn’t really do the getting up early for the weekend – Saturday I got up around 10 and Sunday I woke up around 8:30. I’m fine with those times. So I think I’m just going to do 6:30 during the week.
I also just got a really cool gift from my friend Malcolm: its a light that slowly wakes you up with natural light. This is a big help because its so dark here. It also slowly fades when you turn it on at night. I really really like it. It is a genius gift.
I have a presentation at the Dunbar Club tonight for Rotary. This is Lindsey’s host club, so I’m really looking forward to going out there to meet everyone.
I’ll post pictures of the presentation tomorrow and let everyone know how it all went.
Hope everyone has a great day!
Day 6: Doesn’t Count
Well, I didn’t really wake up that early today, but it is Saturday after all. I set my alarm for 8, and I did get up and turn it off, but then went back to sleep until 10. So I think I’ll just have to count Sunday as my day 6 of waking up early.
Day 5: Easy Peasy
It was actually pretty easy to get up today. I found myself waking up at 4:30, then again at 5 and again at 6. I think I am excited in a way to just get up. I know, kind of weird of me wanting to just wake up.
Well, my first week is pretty much down, and I have 3 more to go. I bet you all are wondering if I will be waking up early on the weekends. Well the answer is yes/no. I am waking up at 8. I think thats early enough for the weekends – I’m not cheating, right?
Well – I’m going to make some breakfast.
Happy Friday everyone!