Sunday Routine
Written on May 29, 2010 // babble, family, food, sleep, tv, weekend.
Sunday morning @ Jamaica…no, not the country, the station.
The idea for this post game from reading a New York Times column with the same title. So I figured I would put my own personal spin on my routine on a typical Sunday. I must warn you in advance, if you’re looking for fireworks, skydiving, or hangouts at the crowded Studio Square…then you’re out of luck. I do a lot of work and play for the rest of the six days per week. My Sundays are always my time off from just about everything, my day to re-coup, unwind, and re-charge. The only time I really go out on a Sunday is when I really need to. Otherwise, I keep it local.
- Sunrise what?
If there’s one thing I can guarantee you is that for most of my Sundays, I will rarely wake up early. I love my sleep, my pillow, and the ability to check emails on my iPhone while lazily lying under the covers before i rest for “5 more minutes”. On rare occasions, I may find myself awake by noon…so in an essence, the day is sorta half-way done. Taking advantage that my phone’s nearby, I put on some streaming internet music to get the blood flowing.
- Breakfast of choice
Most of the time I can survive just fine with a bagel or a breakfast bar with some tea. I’m a tea fanatic as well as a coffee lover. However I never drink coffee at home, and before you label me as a snob let me tell you why in one word: decaf. On Sundays I like to splurge a little and have more than a bar…my favorite has always been waffles. But lately it’s brought up some bad memories, so I’ve found myself joining forces with the pancake squadron.
- Best seat in the house
My desk can be a mess at times, but when I sit down to make my rounds from my laptop, I’m treated to a view outside my window to my neighborhood that looks artistically-pristine in any season. It’s late-spring, so everything is green, flowery, and allergically-beautiful.
- Take a minute
Since I’m usually at home or near home most of the day, I get the grand opportunity to think back on what has happened this week. I get to re-evaluate everything so that I can figure out what steps when the next week begins…because by the time Monday rolls around, I’m usually making too many split-decisions to have time for a deep thought.
- Opposite of staying within the lines
In my family, I was raised by strict parents…I love them, but they ruled with an iron fist. Nevertheless my twin brother and I where always the free-thinking rebels of the group. And by “rebel” I don’t mean we where part of some underground gang…no. We just thought outside the box and liked to challenge every rule, with thought. To our family, it was “abnormal”. To my twin and I, it’s just a different way of thinking. Sometimes when I’m working on a project, I find myself working better late night than during the day. My eldest brother will ask me
“why can’t you wake up earlier and work on it like a normal person?”
My reply is something along the lines of:
“because I’m not normal”
…where I answer with a grin. See? I embrace my inner abnormality.
- Hulu-hooping
Unless the news is on, chances are there’s usually nothing good on tv. So I like to take the time to hop on Hulu Desktop and catch up on all the programming I missed (LOST, FlashForward, V, The Office, How I Met Your Mother). Sadly, LOST is finished and FF has been canceled, so my choices are now limited. By the time I hit the sack, I’ll be watching a podcast or playing a game on my phone from bed ’till i get sleepy, tucking the phone nearby as it’s light turns off while i sleep…only to scare me shitless awake the next day when it’s alarm blares at 545am.
Stay tuned…
