This, That, and the Other

What are your morning rituals? What does the first hour of your day look like?

I’m an ordinary man who lives an ordinary, mundane life. So my morning “rituals” are pretty routine. I am going to use the 7 to 8 am hour for my answer, since my usual wake up time is around 7 am.

The first thing I do after I get out of bed is go into the bathroom, pee, wash my face, and brush my teeth. Then I get dressed in my early morning attire, which is usually a sweatshirt and sweatpants.

Once dressed, I head toward the kitchen, where my wife, who is almost always up before me and has let the dog out into the backyard to do her business, is sitting at the kitchen table, drinking her coffee, and working on her crossword puzzles. I pour myself a cup of coffee, turn on my iPhone, and start reading comments that came in overnight and the posts that showed up in my Reader.

I fix myself a bowl of cold cereal, continue reading posts from other bloggers until I finish my cereal. By then, it’s around 8 am, so I go back to my room, change into my flight gear, and take off on my routine morning flight around the neighborhood.

See, I warned you. I live an ordinary life. Nothing special.

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