@BreakForTheLight


*Raises hand!* Almost every day. I have good intentions. I set the alarm early thinking I will do my work early and have some free time in the afternoon to get some things done around here. Instead, I hit the snooze a bunch of times, start late, end up working into the evening because I feel like what is the point of it all.

I admit I didn’t do so badly today. I managed to drag myself out of bed at 7:30 mainly because the dogs wanted to go out. Sometimes they are happy to laze around until later. I was able to get most of the plant watering done, wash dishes from last night, clean the cat box and do half an hour on the stationary bike. By 9 I was ready to work.

Other days, I’m in bed until 8:30-9:00 thinking I just can’t do this. I agreed to take on extra work for my client last weekend since they are busy. I got through Saturday okay. Sunday I worked a bit in the morning and just hit a wall. Mentally, I couldn’t continue. I’m lucky my client said it was okay to finish it yesterday , but that ended up being a long work day.

On top of everything I had contact with an old friend from Brazil. He lives in the US, although he spent some time in Brazil last year. I know his whole family. I’ve stayed with them when I’ve been in Brazil. His sister and her husband came here on their honeymoon and my ex and I showed them around. They’ve been so wonderful to me; I consider them family. Anyways their state has been hit really hard lately by Covid, as has most of Brazil. So, discussing that and how it has hit his family just made my mood take a turn for the worse.

Then, it’s so dark in the AM, so that doesn’t help at all. For some reason, during the last Bachelet presidency we didn’t change the clocks in fall one year, so we kind of got “stuck” in the same time zone as Argentina for most of the year. Winter time is only about 4 months here, we usually change in May and then again in August. It’s not light until about 8 AM right now.