I awoke this morning to the semi darkness of the late sunrise of early autumn. Getting out of bed this time of year is exceedingly difficult, and as much as I hate the darkness when I get off work, I appreciate the sunlight in the morning. I intensely covet the ability to bounce of out bed at 6:30 am on a regular basis, and bright sunlight is the best way to get me out of bed. I need windows, large, east facing windows on the opposing wall from my bed. My bedroom has big windows, but none of them face east. The real trick is opening the blinds at night so they will be open to the sunlight in the morning. I might be a paranoid person, but I’m also slightly nosy, and if a light is on in a room in a house where the blinds are open at night, I am going to look. So if lights are on at night, blinds should be closed. Somehow turning all the lights out and then opening the blinds seems strange.
Oh, duh. What I need is a chamber maid, to come in the morning and open the blinds for me and leave me clean clothes and tea and toast with butter and marmalade and maybe a hardboiled egg. I guess if I had a chamber maid I could also have a house with east facing windows on the water or on a mountain somewhere that blinds were not necessary. Then I wouldn’t need my chambermaid, but breakfast would be pleasant. Then I might bounce out of bed at 6:30.
Alas, I was languishing in bed at 7:45 this morning, thinking about what I would wear today. And I checked the weather, 71 degrees, 84% humidity. This sounds like an improvement over 78 degrees with 97% humidity, but I wasn’t entirely convinced it was a significant improvement. The fact that it is September 30th means nothing as far as what kind of weather could be expected.
Have you ever wondered what the UPS guy does all day? Because when you want a package to arrive at your house by a certain time, and you track it, it seems like regardless of anything else, the UPS man never gets to your house til after 5 pm, regardless of where you live, even though the UPS.com tracker told you he left the warehouse at 8 am this morning. Well, apparently he is delivering packagings, because I got a delivery I’d been waiting on at 1:45 this afternoon! It is like the UPS man knew i needed the package before 5. Or else it’s friday and he just wanted to go ahead and get rid of all the boxes so he could go home.
Why do I need this package before 5 pm? Because I’m going to Augusta today for Britt’s 30th Birthday! HOORAY! Happy Birthday Britt! Yay 30!
I have to admit, my 30th year so far has been pretty spectacular, and I feel sure Britt’s 30th year will be equally amazing!
Happy Friday, take time this weekend and smell the tea olives, and when it gets cold tonight, or tomorrow night, and you shiver in your tank top, remember that is finally the best month of the year, OCTOBER! Just typing it makes me happy. I’m going to go dig up some fingerless gloves with skulls and crossbones on them.
the thin line between optimism and delusion... 
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