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May 01, 2006
the upside-down day
You know that thing where you set your alarm, but when you set it you're really tired because you didn't sleep enough the night before and then you've stayed up until 2am again, so you set it for 8 PM instead of 8 AM?
I haven't done that in a really long time, so the time, so to speak, was ripe. This morning I woke up very peacefully to the sound of the cat pacing in the hall outside my bedroom door. His appetite has been huge lately (crazy metabolism problems!) and this is typical behavior, especially around say 8:30am, which would not be an unreasonable time for me to get up.
I looked at the clock, and it said 9:24. Given that the 10:15 meeting today was most decidedly non-optional, especially with the atmosphere at work lately, I was a little panicked.
Panic and rushing through the morning without eating breakfast was business as usual from the time I was 15 until about three years ago when I Saw The Light. Breakfast. Best Meal Ever.
Oh, how I love my breakfast. But this morning, there was just no time.
So tonight, I let dinner wait way too long. I came home from work, spent until about 8 removing a yard waste bin's worth of grape vines and other assorted unwanted vegetation from the front yard, and contemplated dinner.
Avoided the question until nearly ten. Did not want anything in the kitchen. Went out and decided I'd decide while I was out. Got gas. Went to the bank. Drove on down the road.
Then I finally realized that I needed the meal I had missed: breakfast. I love breakfast, but even better is breakfast for dinner.
I came home and cooked sausage, turkey bacon, and little waffles with butter and honey. It was so very just right.
Posted by lisa at May 01, 2006 10:59 PM
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I keep a box of granola bars around so that I'll have something to eat when I'm having one of those mornings.
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