Tuesday, October 9, 2007

Inspired

I am thinking that maybe I should look into a new line of work. One where I work overnight or in the PM hours. At night, I tend to be inspired, creative and very very motivated. Most house cleaning, bill paying, online shopping, grocery shopping... ok pretty much everything is done at night in my house because that is the only time I feel like doing it. The best are my night lists though. After feeling accomplished about the dinner dishes being done and put away, I like to come up with mental lists of things that I will do the following day. For example, I came up with this list to do last night:

Wake up by 6:30am
Have a nice breakfast sitting at the kitchen table, reading newspaper
Clean breakfast bowl
Pack a delicious lunch. Hell, make a healthy lunch for husband while I'm at it.
Fold towels that are sitting in the dryer
Have a nice leisurely drive to Dunkin' Donuts
Proceed to work where I arrive early, smiling and tackle the work I did not complete yesterday and get a head start on today's work.

The reality went more like this:

Alarm went off at 6:30 am
Husband nudged me, I hit the snooze button
Alarm went off at 6:35
Husband shoved me and I hit snooze
Alarm went off at 6:40
Husband cursed loudly
I reset alarm for 7:45 am
Alarm went off at 7:45 am
I turned alarm off and thought to myself "5 more minutes"
At 8:05 I sprung up from bed panicked
Ran to bathroom, washed face, brushed teeth and threw on whatever
Shoved a Lean Cuisine in plastic bag and ran for the door
Threw newspaper that landed in garden and made mental note "call husband from car to fish newspaper out of front garden"
Got in car and realized "Shit. Don't have cell phone, cannot call husband from car."
Ran to the garden, retrieved newspaper, opened front door, dropped newspaper and grabbed cell phone.
Sprinted back to car, cursed traffic and people impeding my way to Dunkin' Donuts
Hit the DD, peeled out of parking lot to get to work (I know I know. Running late, but you didn't think I would skip the stop for my precious DD coffee, did you??)
Speedwalked through door at 9:10 am, 10 minutes late
Looked down and realized that my shirt was on inside out
Went to ladies room to adjust clothing
Returned to desk to turn on computer and curse at 25 emails waiting for me.
Sighed contentedly that none of them were about being late.

On the weekends, my PM lists are great. They usually involve cleaning the house (haha), making breakfast (hehe), prepping meals for the following week (yeah right) and going to the gym (BWAHAHAHAHAHA). When normally on the weekends, I tend to sleep 'til the late AM with husband, move to the couch to snuggle with said husband and watch a movie or read a book. Sometimes I'm even inspired enough to come up with some food for husband to run out and get for us. So really, I think I would be more productive and more successful if I just found something that made use of my nighttime awesomeness.

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