Rise And Shine

Act 99:

“It’s never too late… To Wake Up

Give yourself a wake-up call. Life is short. Often we wander through it. There are no guarantees. No ‘Take Two’. Remind yourself how fortunate you are. Resolve to make the most of your time here. Help make a difference in others’ lives. It will make a big difference to yours.” – Patrick Lindsay

Quote in book: “The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.” ~ Henry Miller

I’m not sure how to approach this Act. I guess Mr. Lindsay is just trying to tell us to seize the day. Wake up and smell the roses. Wake up and life your life instead of going through the motions. I feel like I’ve already done this. Something awakened inside me after my father died and I am a new person. I’m not going to reiterate that whole process. I know if you’ve been reading you’ve heard me repeat myself over and over. My comment to this for you is… Don’t fall asleep at the wheel of the car you call your life. Stop sleep walking through life and LIVE.

What I will talk about today is the actual act of “Waking up”. Everyone has a process. I’m a snoozer. I set my alarm about 15-20min earlier than when I REALLY have to get up so I can snooze. Don’t judge. I’ve tried not doing that and I’m always more tired the rest of the day AND I will end up being late cause my body does like to get a little bit of extra shut eye before actually getting up. It takes my body a while to wake up, so it needs those snoozes to prepare for the day.

The thing that mostly gets me out of bed is that fact I have to go to the bathroom. So, right after I finally get out of bed I go to the bathroom. Then I put on my contacts (yes I wear contacts). I shower in the mornings now instead of at night to help me wake up. So on days when I work out, I shower twice! I change like 5 times before I can get my outfit right and then brush my teeth. Then it’s off to work. I don’t usually eat breakfast (but w/ this new diet I’m learning)

Anyone who’s knows me knows I’m not a morning person. My friends and colleagues have figured it out the hard way. My brain is just not awake until about 45min-1hour after I’ve woken up. My homegirl and I used to have 8am classes at UCLA and we would walk down in silence to class, because she knew not to talk to me until I was ready to talk. She said she finally figured it out, because she used to ask me questions in the morning and would just grunt one word answers back to her until I was fully awake.

I don’t drink caffeine so I have to naturally wake myself up. Although my homegirl, Wanga, figured out that the one thing that does wake me up in the morning is Apple juice. It’s like my crack. When I drink apple juice, I bounce off the walls.. it’s crazy.

Anyway, that’s my little morning routine. I don’t play music. I don’t read the paper. I sleep as much as I can and know that it usually takes me less than 30 min to get up, get ready, and get out the door. I’m lucky that Do you have a morning routine?

BTW – I’ve been getting a lot of compliments on the hair. YAY! It’s so short that even the GUYS at work are noticing. Guys usually don’t notice a haircut, which is one of the things that women get mad at. But I had so many guys notice today and actually say it looked nice. Most of the time you can tell if ur hair looks stupid, because people go. “oh you got ur hair cut” then nothing! Today at work I got. “Wow, you cut your hair. It looks really good.” So YAY me!

I was playing this song the whole time I was writing this blog to give me inspiration. All it did was distract me from actually writing cause I kept seat dancing! Haha

Wake Me Up Before You Go Go by WHAM!

You put the boom boom into my heart,
You send my soul sky high when your lovin' starts.
Jitterbug into my brain,
Goes bang bang bang till my feet do the same.

But something's bugging me
Something ain't right
My best friend told me
What you did last night.

Left me sleeping
In my bed.
I was dreaming
But I should've been with you instead.

CHORUS
Wake me up before you go go,
Don't leave me hanging on like a yo-yo.
Wake me up before you go go,
I don't wanna miss it when you hit that high
Wake me up before you go go,
'Cause I'm not planning on going solo.
Wake me up before you go go,
Take me dancing tonite.
I wanna hit that high...

You get the gray skies outta my way,
You make the sun shine brighter than Doris Day.
Turn a bright spark into a flame,
My beats per minute never been the same.

'Cause you're my lady,
I'm your fool.
Makes me crazy
When you act so cruel.

C'mon baby,
Let's not fight.
We'll go dancing
And everything will be alright.

REPEAT CHORUS

Cuddle up baby,
Move in tight.
We'll go dancing tomorrow night.

It's cold out there
But it's warm in bed.
They can dance,
We'll stay home instead.
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