Explainably Inexplicable
January 06, 2005
Every winter, I inexplicably get stricken with a tremendous lack of motivation. Ok, maybe not "inexplicably," but it's definitely hard to explain.
From the moment I open my eyes in the morning, my mind and body are warring about getting out of my warm bed. Five or six days a week the responsible side wins. But at least one day a week the five-year-old in my heart wins and I get to sleep in for a couple of hours.
Today was no exception to this rule. I ended up being late for work because I couldn't get out of bed. I was only 10 minutes late. But let me just say, I didn't complete my normal morning hygienic tasks until I got to work. By this, I mean to say, I brushed my teeth in the bathroom at my work.
I guess it could be chocked up to the whole Greek mythology thing. You know, the Greek goddess of the harvest, Demeter, who mourned during winter because her daughter had to spend those months with her husband Hades. If that doesn't make sense, google it.
But I think it may be a mixture of that and also that it gets so cold outside the covers in the morning.
The colder I can tell it is outside of my blankets, the harder it is to get up in the morning. I get to work right around 8:00 most mornings in the winter. In the summer I could probably get here by 7 or earlier, just cause it's so much easier to wake up!
Posted by: Jill at January 7, 2005 03:48 PM