What's Your Morning Routine?

[Stone-Butch]

I get my coffee ready the night before so. I get up usually around 530 or 6. Go to the kitchen and flip on my coffee pot. Go to the lou and do my duty then wash hands and face, comb hair and go get coffee and probably a pop tart or blueberry muffin. Go back and lie down and watch tv for a bit.

[GeorgiaMa'am]

Things have changed since COVID and also since I got sick.

The differences:

• I sleep until 8:25am, and try to wake up until my boy knocks on the door.
• The boy brings me breakfast in bed.
• I take a handful of medications and give myself an injection.
• I put on a t-shirt (and nothing else).
• I start work at 9:00am, finish breakfast, and make it to a 9:15am Zoom meeting.
• I work in bed, with the occasional naplet in between.

The same:

• I stumble into the bathroom and wash my face.
• I put my hair up in a bun.

Let us know how your morning routine works out! I'm interested.

[Gemme]

No changes to my morning routine since COVID.

If I'm working that day, I get up with the alarm, make my bed, turn the a/c down (or up, depending if your glass is half full or empty), visit the restroom after saying good morning to the fur babies, get my hair situated, go turn on the computer and feed the babies, check the news online and weather while the babies eat, go weigh myself, drink a big glass of water, go put my face on, get halfway dressed (tops before breakfast, bottoms after....Why, you ask? Because I have a very loving, super sheddy light-colored cat), make and eat breakfast, realize that I only have 15 minutes to finish up and get to work so I turn it up a notch, rinse my dishes, put down some kibble for the babies to eat later (their breakfast is wet stuff-which is why they get bitchy when I sleep in), speed floss and brush my teeth, finish dressing, say goodbye to the babies, grab my gear and mask and run out the door.

Okay, the mask grabbing is different.

But that's all.

[Gráinne]

No changes since COVID. The following is what I'm implementing gradually as a part of serious self-care. So far, so good!

1. Wake up about 7:00 AM with a few minutes of deep breathing and positive thoughts for the day. I used to wake up already dreading the day, and I'm trying to change that.
2. Put on my dud clothes and do about 25 minutes of Body Groove .
3. Shower, fix hair, skin routine, dab on some makeup (maybe)
4. Get dressed. If not going to work, I still get out of my dud clothes.
5. Breakfast and water
6. Either go to work, or start my priorities that day.