establish daily routines that work for me

I got up early, finished a chapter, made a small list of goals (writing a note, paying a bill, making a copy, saving work to a USB drive), and did laundry and floors.

This works so well for me because may day tends to fall apart as it wears on. This way, I get important stuff done before real life intrudes.

By the time I get dinner fixed and hubby into bed (sometimes in reverse order, depending on how tired he is), I am ready to collapse, and I usually do take about an hour’s nap.

After that, I am good for nothing, and besides, hubby meeds company and conversation.

So, “make the most of early morning” will be my motto.

I am just barely keeping up with what I need to do, which is better than a year ago, when I was 6 months behind. An entry by Asterisk meade me realize that, since hubby’s illness, my productive routines have gone right out the window.

This morning, I tried to reestablish some of them. Here’s my morning routine:
1. Set alarm for 6:30
2. Up by 7
3. Tend to Nick and feed cats
4. Put in load of laundry and start Scooba
5. Make coffee
6. Turn on computer and bring up MS Word. No email, no news, no websites. Open Explorer in case I need dictionary.com or some other useful site.
7. Work on book until 8:15, when cat yowling outside closed office door, Scooba beeping that it had finished, and noise indicating that N. is awake drags me reluctantly out. I almost finished a chapter (it was nearly finished anyway, but I made strong progress.)
8. Bathe
9. Get N’s breakfast, start another load of laundry.
10. K the caregiver should arrive about now
11. Back to computer. Check work email, home email, bank balance. Dry hair.

It was a wonderful, productive morning! From that, I will establish my daily morning routine.