New schedule

I woke up this morning at around 4 o'clock. Due to a combination of not really feeling tired and Sean's talking and laughing floating through the door, I couldn't get back to sleep. I'd set the alarm for 6, thinking that if I woke up earlier I'd go ahead and get up, but when I thought "earlier" I was thinking 5 or 5:30, so this seemed a little ridiculous at first.

Still, I got up, and went ahead and put on my workout clothes and put up my hair. (It's long enough now that I can do those goofy pigtails on either side of my head, which I do in order to lessen the sweatosity. Sure, sweatosity's a word.)

Then I cleaned the kitchen, which just involved getting everything in the sink into the dishwasher.

I asked Sean if he was hungry and if he wanted breakfast or dinner. Even though for him this would be his last meal of the day, he always wants to have breakfast in the Circadian morning. So that's what he asked for. This sort of put a crimp in my plans to make a dinner and then pack up my half for lunch, but I improvised and cooked breakfast and dinner at the same time.

Breakfast consisted of eggs, bacon, and pancakes made from the batter I'd made a couple days ago. I thinned the batter out with some milk and the pancakes seemed to turn out better. Does my batter need to be left in the fridge for awhile and then thinned, or is this just due to the Bisquick being a little old? In any case, I also considered grits, but I decided the preceding was plenty of food.

For dinner, I found a recipe in my Taste of Home cookbook for meatloaf, so I whipped that up, even chopping an onion for it. I used part of the onion in the eggs and put the rest in a Ziploc bag in the fridge. Unfortunately I don't have a loaf pan so the meatloaf went into a cake pan...hope it's not too dry.

I also made some sour cream and chive scalloped potatoes a la Betty Crocker, starting them later than the meatloaf (they take less time to cook--though I guess I don't really need to have everything come out at the same time when I'm cooking in advance. Habit, I suppose).

I'll top all that off with broccoli. Sean says he doesn't want to take his dinner to work, so I'm taking frozen veggies with me to steam in the work microwave, and I'll make his veggies tonight when I get home so he'll have them when he gets here at 11:45.

As soon as the sun came up I went on my walk. It was longer than I thought it was; I got back at 7:30, which meant either I would have to leave things unfinished or go to my freelance work late. Freelance took the hit because I wanted to have time to dress, pack lunches, and finish this post.

After the freelance work I'll head to regular work, just like yesterday.

This seems like a pretty decent schedule. The rush towards the end isn't great, but I'm trapped by the time the sun comes up and the time the freelance place opens. Then again, I won't be doing freelance work every morning, so I suppose it'll be okay every once in awhile. Weather.com says the sun rose at 6:55, which is later than the 6:45 I was assuming, so that explains the rush a little. I don't guess this is going to work as well once fall gets here.

Another issue is that I'm really not all that hungry in the morning, so most of my lovely breakfast remained uneaten. Then again, I suppose that's good for my diet ;> I think I'll shift to cooking breakfast just for Sean tomorrow (it'll be good to ensure he's getting at least two square meals) and grab a bowl of cereal or Slim-Fast for myself.