Fall Failure

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I can tell that Fall is approaching. It is not the cooler weather (though we've had a coupla mild frosts already). It is not the slightly shorter days. It is not the ripening apples or the emptiness of the berry bushes.

It's my inner alarm clock.

All summer long - when I have no regular schedule and can occasionally sleep-in without guilt, I wake up SPROING! at 5 stinkin' 30 AM.

Now...not so sproingy!

It crept up insidiously. First, I diligently set the clock for 6:00AM and always woke up cheerfully ("Cheerfully" would be the operative word here) well before the alarm went off. Then I was waking up only 5 or 10 minutes before the alarm. A week or two later it was the alarm itself that was arousing me.

"I'm Renee Montagne and I'm Steve Inskeep and THIS is Morning Edition on NPR: National Public Radio."

And now? Now the alarm goes off and yesterday I drowsed through an hour of NPR before I truly woke up enough to actually climb out of bed. Today I only listened to 6.5 minutes of news and then FORCED myself to get up.

This does not bode well for our school schedule!

The current plan, which shall be (cough!) implemented next Monday runs as follows:

6:00AM Get-up, read Bible, eat fruit and drink soymilk

6:45AM Work out

7:00AM Shower

7:30AM Get Girlies up

Well, it's 7:30 now and the girls are NOT up and I haven't eaten anything except water and coffee and I'm groggy and I obviously haven't exercised yet.

Looks like I'll either have to revamp the plan, or revamp the body!

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I was trying to change my template to more fallish colors, but Blogger apparently doesn't like my artistic bent.

Groovy: "Let's see...I think I'll try to pull in some oranges and reds and yellows."

Evil Blogger: "No red! You must keep the blue."

Groovy: It's my blog, and I don't WANT the blue.

Evil Blogger: blue, Blue BLUE!!!

Groovy: Stupid Blogger!

Evil Blogger: Na-na-na-na-na!

It's only letting me save SOME of the changes. So now I'm stuck with a weird combo of the old and the new.

Evil Blogger: Heh-heh-heh!

And, no...the girls still aren't up and yes, I am going to make a commercial today for my Procrastination Destination lens on Squidoo.