Drastic Measures

With my current assignment at work, I actually can come in around 8 or 8:30 AM, which is the latest I’ve ever been allowed to stroll into the office.  Unfortunately that also means I’m at work until 5pm most days, so I don’t get home until 5:30 or 6, depending on traffic.  This results in not getting to the gym until pretty late and not getting home until late.  My entire evening schedule becomes gym, shower, eat.  Notice there is no “hang with the man” time mentioned in there.  Or “plan your wedding time” allotted.  Not cool.  I also travel.  A lot.  As in in the last month, I’ve spent 2.5 weeks somewhere else.  Less time to do anything at all.

All this came to my mind last week.  I was in Ohio for work (yuck…really…I’m a Michigan girl and they just keep making me go to Ohio!) and realized that I was not taking care of business like I needed.  I wasn’t taking care of #1, which was making my attention to everything else a little less than it should.  So while I was out of town, I made a major decision – I was going to join the ranks of the AM exercisers.

This is drastic people.  This means bed by 10pm and up at 5:30am.  This means shutting it down and telling the man that even though he’ll be up another 4-5 hours, I’m going to sleep.  It means cutting off the tv and computer and just hitting the hay.  This is a MAJOR EFFORT, but I knew I’d get MAJOR RESULTS from it.

So I started on Monday night.  I set alarms on my phone for 10pm (go to bed NOW!) and 5:30am (get up and move it!!).  I talked to the man about it.  And I set forth.  It’s rocking my world, but so far, I’ve gotten up every day and I’ve worked out every morning and I feel good.  I absolutely love having my evenings free to do whatever I want with and know that the workout is already done.  I love that when the man gets home, I don’t have to slug to the gym and back before we even talk.  I have time and energy for chores in the evening, wedding planning, and all the other things I need to do.  It’s been hard, but it’s been great.  It means that I actually have gained time that I didn’t even know I had, which is 100% fabulous.

This post somewhat explains why I haven’t been around.  That paired with a sick computer (my comp was at the genius bar for a whole WEEK!!) and you can see where my internet time went.  But I have lots of stuff to talk about so I’ll be posting more

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