There should be a law...

Thursday, 5:18 am

By Kate

Dec

04

2008

...against Christmas music 24/7 beginning the day after Thanksgiving. My two favorite light rock radio stations have gone around the bend with this and I’m hearing the same songs over and over and over and over. I love Christmas music. But not for a solid month. By the time Christmas arrives, I’m going to be so sick of Christmas that I’m afraid I’ll be ready to take the tree down before I even get it up. Of course, I could just exclusively listen to NPR for the next month, but I WANT my tunes. Sigh…

I’m so totally sick of the Jackson Five. Don’t want to hear Jose Feliciano again. Ever. Garth Brooks just shouldn’t do Christmas carols. And I HATE the one about Grandma getting run over by a reindeer. That instantly puts me in Scrooge mode and it seems to be a perennial favorite, played a dozen times a day. Bleh.

(The sun isn’t up yet, either, fwiw.)

Nearly normal

Thursday, 4:40 am

By Kate

Dec

04

2008

Well, here I sit with my first cup of coffee, impatiently waiting for the sun to rise. Which it won’t for another couple of hours. I’m awake before the proverbial chickens. And this so not my natural state. However, over the past several weeks, I’ve been trying, very hard, to change my sleep patterns to something that resembles normal. For reasons I know not, I am naturally inclined to have the exact reverse schedule that almost everyone else enjoys.

It takes several weeks to change such patterns. But I think I’m almost there. Just a couple more hours worth of adjustments. And I am anxious for the sun to rise. Then I can Do Things that Make Noise. It’s one of the disadvantages of living in a house that shares a wall with a neighbor. My neighbor may be an early bird, but not this early. I don’t imagine she’d appreciate my vaccum cleaner at this hour, though I have more energy to burn right now than seems decent.