morning person

i have always dreamed of "being a morning" person. my mom is one. my cousin (who is my age and i spent the night with all the time as a child) is one. a lot of my friends are. but i was born to be a night owl, just like my daddy.  stay up late, not necessarily causing trouble (except for your own mind maybe),  and hate your life in the morning when you have to wake up. ok, maybe that's a little extreme, but in those moments when you are 1/2 awake, i promise it's dead on. haha

this morning, i didn't wake up super early per se. it was 9:15. but it was earlier than my "under the weather" husband, it was earlier than the vanderbilt neighborhood stirred on a sunday morning when i took charlie out. so...it was early seeming. and that was all it took for me to feel pumped.

knowing we were going to be watching church online since my sweetheart has yet to kick this funk he has, i went straight to my office in the spare bedroom, opened up my accounting/book keeping folder, and got to work. **i don't mind reading in the mornings, but i'm definitely not awake enough to be extremely creative in my writing. so i work on things that require less creative juice, knowing i will have to get it done anyway.**

and do you know what? in less than 2 hours, i finished what a year ago stressed me out. a year ago, i was so stressed when i had to start the book keeping--simply because i had no concept of what i was doing. now, with two restaurants to balance each month, with practice, i am understanding it...getting it, can you believe it?

i bet you are thinking: whoopee ashlyne, you learned to do your job. i do my job everyday too.

and you're right. but it's fun when you stop feeling like an idiot, you have to give me that. :) and it frees up my mind to actually write when i want to for the rest of the week/month or however much time i have left until a deadline.

i finished my work this morning before church even came on...which, by the way, is how mason and i "went" to church when we lived in LA.

sidebar:  if you are looking for a wonderful wonderful pastor, one who talks truth but not over your head, one who is funny and actually makes you want to go to church...check out www.brentwoodbaptist.com and watch live on sunday mornings... OR you can go http://www.brentwoodbaptist.com/kairos/ and watch the archives of Kairos. it's more casual than church, with our pastor in jeans instead of a suit, but it's just as amazing...if not more :)


anyway, i am rambling, but this morning's productivity made me even more interested in training myself to be a "morning person". it's a time management guru's dream!