Frantic mornings...
Something weird happens to me in the mornings when I wake up. I have tried to stop my distressing am habits, but to no avail. Enter, with caution, into the ahem...interesting world of mornings with Frieda (yes I am in a third person mood lately.)
So my alarm goes off. I typically spend about twenty minutes in bed listening to the radio and trying to force myself out of bed. Fine. I get out of bed and mentally decide in my head it shoudl only take me 15 minutes to get ready for work. Why 15 minutes? So already I am kind of running around frantically, quick! bathroom time quick! get dressed! grabbing breakfast or no? (often no). Grabbing lunch from refrigerator.
Ok, but the thing is, 9/10, I am not actually late for work. I just run around as if I am late. Then I end up with this extra 10-20 minutes before I have to leave for work.
WWNPD? (What would a normal person do?) Well, they might sit and have breakfast. A girl might spend extra time making herself cute. (Um..I have a 30 second morning make-up time, you can forget anything like eyeliner which actually takes focus). NOPE. not Frieda. I try very hard not to look too much better than my patients. It's an empathy thing.
So instead I decide to 'optimize' my morning routine. So suddenly I will run around, picking up stuff, folding clothes, doing dishes. Sometimes I will go through my mail. One time (i kid you not)...I changed back out of my work clothes so I could mop my kitchen and bathroom floors and then changed back again.
It is so weird. Because when I come home from work it's not like I run around cleaning. If things are dirty after work they stay that way. But in the morning I have this manicness...
The best part about all this is that inevitably I not only use the 'extra' time I had but go over...and then have to make a nice stressful dash to work.
Why oh why do I do this to myself?
:)
Frieda
So my alarm goes off. I typically spend about twenty minutes in bed listening to the radio and trying to force myself out of bed. Fine. I get out of bed and mentally decide in my head it shoudl only take me 15 minutes to get ready for work. Why 15 minutes? So already I am kind of running around frantically, quick! bathroom time quick! get dressed! grabbing breakfast or no? (often no). Grabbing lunch from refrigerator.
Ok, but the thing is, 9/10, I am not actually late for work. I just run around as if I am late. Then I end up with this extra 10-20 minutes before I have to leave for work.
WWNPD? (What would a normal person do?) Well, they might sit and have breakfast. A girl might spend extra time making herself cute. (Um..I have a 30 second morning make-up time, you can forget anything like eyeliner which actually takes focus). NOPE. not Frieda. I try very hard not to look too much better than my patients. It's an empathy thing.
So instead I decide to 'optimize' my morning routine. So suddenly I will run around, picking up stuff, folding clothes, doing dishes. Sometimes I will go through my mail. One time (i kid you not)...I changed back out of my work clothes so I could mop my kitchen and bathroom floors and then changed back again.
It is so weird. Because when I come home from work it's not like I run around cleaning. If things are dirty after work they stay that way. But in the morning I have this manicness...
The best part about all this is that inevitably I not only use the 'extra' time I had but go over...and then have to make a nice stressful dash to work.
Why oh why do I do this to myself?
:)
Frieda
posted by Frieda at 8:52 AM
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Nice to know i'm friends with a crazy person ;).
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