I love waking up early in the morning. At least on week days. Unfortunately, I can only do that every other week. This week, is my late week.
And yet for some odd reason, this morning, I had the hardest time waking up. This is one of those “you know it’s going to be a bad day when…” kind of situations. And it’s always little things, too. It’s always these insignificant annoyances that just get in your way. You’ll realize you’re frustrated when you skip a part of your morning routine, or in my case, a morning routine that just started two days ago. But still, you’ll notice very quickly how frustrated you really are.
Having a hard time waking up is one thing. But then, with my eyes still practically closed, I turn on my shower, and wait for the water. The stupid shower curtain was constantly knocking things over.
Can I ask people something? I don’t live by myself yet, but if a shampoo bottle runs out of shampoo, do you not throw it away? Does one not promptly take that empty bottle, and toss it right in the trash can? Can one not comprehend this simple task? Because, you see, if you don’t do that, you’ll end up with a pile of different empty bottles, all of which serve absolutely no purpose in continuing residing on your bathtub/shower side. All it does is constantly fall over INTO the tub, where then someone else, one that does not own these empty shampoo bottles, has to constantly reach down and pick it up. And no matter where it is put, it constantly falls. I know this is a tiny thing to get irritated with but when you didn’t want to wake up to go to work in the first place, are grumpy from the night before, and you can’t seem to find YOUR filled shampoo bottle amongst the plethora of empty shampoo bottles that keep toppling over because the shower curtain moved slightly, then this insignificant problem turns into one giant ARRRRGGGHHHHHHH!!!!
But it’s fine. I through the rest of my morning routine, and I was ready to be out the door by 7:45. I still live with my mother, for the time being, and I love her dearly. I really do. And believe it or not, there is an almost drastic difference in traffic by so much as five minutes. Seriously. The amounts of times I’ve left for work at 7:45 A.M. vs something like 7:50-8:00, and how much lighter the traffic is at 7, is amazing.
Today I wanted to be out of the house by 7:45. And I run into my mother who starts telling me I should change my pants. No, really, it will take like, five minutes. I don’t have time. It’s 7:46, now and I still need to get the crap out of my brother’s car so that I can park my car in the garage. By the time I drop his keys off again, it will be 7:48, and by the time I start my car, it will be roughly 7:50. I’m very anal about my timing when it comes to traffic.
So I ended up leaving the house at 7:50, which annoyed me. And I could have taken an alternate route that would have gotten me to my primary destination, and avoided traffic, but it would probably have taken just as long if I had simply stood in traffic. I WAS WRONG.
I should taken the alternate route because it would have gotten me to work in about 40 minutes. 10 minutes longer than it usually takes for me to get to work (depending on how fast I’m going, and how early it is in the morning). It took me over an hour to get into work today. Which now means that I have to stay here for a little bit longer to make up for lost time. Which is annoying. Very annoying.
Not only is it annoying that I have to continue working past everyone else, but also because the traffic will be fucking horrendous AGAIN.
I’m going through Rosslyn next time.
