I also have a getting-up routine that is just barely happening in the morning. I wake up between 11 and noon, depending on various things, and visit the bathroom. For the last week, and into next week, I then put on two different socks, put a built-up regular shoe on my good foot, and then go carefully away from other sleeping people, sit down in the sitting room, and put on the EXTREMELY NOISY walking boot. This allows me to be noisy in admonishing the boot if the various velcro bits catch on my sock, too.
I then collect a glass of water and a carton of yoghurt and a spoon, and go into my office and fire up the laptop and start downloading my email.
If I am fast right here, I eat a handful of almonds and take the histamine-2 blocker for acid reflux. Then I drink about half the glass of water. If I am not fast, Saffron comes and climbs up on my collarbone, purring thunderously and preventing me from doing anything other than delicately moving the mouse to read or delete email. When I can harden my heart, I put her on the desk cushion provided just for her and then start the meds routine.
When the first med has settled I take the rest of them with the yoghurt and finish the water. Once I've dealt with email that shouldn't wait too long, and done anything else quick that would benefit from being done at once, I go make a cup of tea and prepare something to eat; sometimes toast, sometimes leftovers, whatever.
I settle with these and start checking the weather and an auxiliary account and a couple of news blogs and DreamWidth. If an idea has come to me in the night, I poke at either the notes file for my writing project or at the project itself.
That's probably the end of the morning routine. I might take a shower and get dressed at that point or I might just segue into writing while still in my pajamas. It depends on whether I need to be somewhere, start laundry, or get weekly or semi-weekly chores out of the way.
A lot of this is dictated by the meds schedule, but I like the tea-and-the-web part. And of course I love the cat part even when it's inconvenient.
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Date: 2018-01-19 08:37 pm (UTC)I then collect a glass of water and a carton of yoghurt and a spoon, and go into my office and fire up the laptop and start downloading my email.
If I am fast right here, I eat a handful of almonds and take the histamine-2 blocker for acid reflux. Then I drink about half the glass of water. If I am not fast, Saffron comes and climbs up on my collarbone, purring thunderously and preventing me from doing anything other than delicately moving the mouse to read or delete email. When I can harden my heart, I put her on the desk cushion provided just for her and then start the meds routine.
When the first med has settled I take the rest of them with the yoghurt and finish the water. Once I've dealt with email that shouldn't wait too long, and done anything else quick that would benefit from being done at once, I go make a cup of tea and prepare something to eat; sometimes toast, sometimes leftovers, whatever.
I settle with these and start checking the weather and an auxiliary account and a couple of news blogs and DreamWidth. If an idea has come to me in the night, I poke at either the notes file for my writing project or at the project itself.
That's probably the end of the morning routine. I might take a shower and get dressed at that point or I might just segue into writing while still in my pajamas. It depends on whether I need to be somewhere, start laundry, or get weekly or semi-weekly chores out of the way.
A lot of this is dictated by the meds schedule, but I like the tea-and-the-web part. And of course I love the cat part even when it's inconvenient.
P.