Good morning. Today is day 2 of me waking up early. A goal I have had since I can remember. Every productivity blog, article, book says you need to get up earlier. You will be amazed at how you feel and how much you get done they say. Well, I have to admit – you can knock one thing off – getting up early.

It is amazing at almost 51 and how much you can change. My body is chang-ing. I was lucky enough to never have any aches and pains going up – except maybe headaches. But that was it. Now out of the blue one morning – my knees and ankles definitely said oh no we are definitely 50!

My mindset is changing although my mood sometimes is crabby. I don’t care what people think anymore but damn it if stop your cart in the middle of an aisle – so you can read a label. My gestures are impatient to put it mildly. Yes please stop all of the rest of us trying to buy flour while you take your sweet ass time reading how many calories are in a box of pop tarts. Too many! Move on! Lord. No one has a sense of their surroundings anymore. On the other hand I do love people. Well – stop that, reverse it – most people.

The other not so great thing about getting older – aging parents. Seeing them fragile is hard. Like really hard. You know it is going to happen – everyone gets older but you don’t realize (or I didn’t) the mental toll it would take on you. But I want to be there for them so you gotta suck it up and do it (and then cry/sulk later). Just a weird place to be. But I am grateful i still have them .