Kizzy the Kat (sic) says, "what? you gotta be kidding me, I'm not getting up at 6 am"
So with great enthusiasm (ya, right) I decide to get up early to go for a swim. One thing I hate about this time of year is how late it is before it gets light. In the summer, it is light by 5:30 am so you want to get up with the sun. But in the winter, it doesn’t even start getting light until 8 am in the shortest days so dragging oneself out of bed is a bit challenging.
Darker but beautiful days in winter - the beach down in Poole
Anyway, I have been on my house sit now for about 5 days and I really wanted to put a good week of work in before Christmas so I have not done much exploring at all. Funny that – you would think it would not be hard to do a little bit of exploring, but there are only so many hours in a day, and my efficiency is likely not at its best. Something to work on.
Bailey, the Yorkie, says, "no man, really, I'd rather just lie here, but you go ahead."
Between trying to get exercise, working, eating and the like, it only leaves so many hours for exploring and the daylight hours only offer up about 7 – 8 hours of time to work with. By the way, don’t be typing a post and letting a machine fill a single coffee as you don’t judge your timing correctly and yup, I overfilled the coffee cup … now a mess to clean up …. hey, that rhymes. But anyway, back to the lack of exploring.
Adrian and I on a chilly day - but it was sunny! Two redheads, egad!
So I promise to do more of exploring once Christmas arrives. So you will have to stay tuned for that. In the meantime, it will just be my meanderings. And today the meanderings are about not having enough time to get stuff done.
Notorious British beach huts
People assume, when you take a year off, or two, as I have, that you would get lots done. But that is not the case. I think it is an issue to do with inertia. Or it also could be the number of things you try to get done – too much multi-tasking, and as Oblio found out in the album The Point, “an point in every direction is like no point at all!”
"Come on, Age, run,"
But there is a bit of inertia too. I think when you have to get up and go to the office or have meetings, you get a certain pace going that accomplishes more than when you don’t have any real deadlines. So the best solution I have found, is to get up early and set a schedule. But the trick to it is STICKING TO IT. The schedule that is, not the dirty kitchen floor. K. That was a bit of a poor attempt at humour.
"Well now this is more like it, after all that running ..."
So here I am starting a new schedule for a week getting up at 6 am. Which will mean going to bed by 10 am. So needless to say, not a lot of gallavanting about town. What happened to those days when you were young that the days seemed to last forever? Or as I once heard, “the hours seem to go so slow, but the day just rushes by.”
Ah, the chair of delight ...