Talk About Habit-Forming!

Try as I may, no matter what time I go to bed at night, I wake up at two fifty in the morning, that is unless I am just getting home, which happens more than just occasionally.  Point being, for twenty two plus years, I arose daily at the ass-crack of dawn.....even the ass-crack was still asleep!  It seems to be a habit that I cannot shake.  Researchers agree, doing something continually for twenty-one days will form a habit.  So, it is pretty much a no-brainer as to why I wake up.  Even with my up and down schedule, the body clock is up and ready to go by three a.m.  It does present a problem when I arrive home at three, not too sleepy, I almost have to force myself to fall into la-la land, although usually three hours later, I am raring to go.  Too many consecutive days of that schedule makes the forty or so minute drive home, interesting! 

Mr.  Bill says he too wakes up at three a.m. daily.  I know it isn't to start baking muffins or bagel, he heads to the bathroom then to the refrigerator!  Never having been a person who grazes in the wee hours of the night, I don't get it.  First of all, you have to open your eyes to finds a snack, meaning I would be wide awake.  Another issue that would  signal a wake up, can't see two feet in front of me without my glasses.  Plant them  babies on my face, yep I'm awake.   Then there is the frig light, can't get past that blast of light...looks like frigging sunshine, signaling the body clock...MORNING!  So all this must mean I am a morning person, up and raring to go...perhaps. 

Much like enjoying the solitude of my long drives home in the darkness, I enjoyed the solitude of the early morning Fred's News routine.  Turn on the oven, aroma of fresh cinnamon sugar, cranberries, blueberries and all the fresh ingredients..then I became a grazer..popping the fresh fruit like candy!  It suddenly dawned on me our early morning patrons probably didn't spend half the night opening and closing the frig door or searching the cabinets for snack food..take note Mr. Bill, they slept and woke up READY!   On the other hand my early morning wake-ups probably were formed by my children in their infancy.  They preferred early rising...yes the ass-crack of dawn....OMG it is no wonder they still stay up half the night...talk about forming a habit...they were born that way! Either that or they knew something I didn't...preparing me for our future at Fred's News!