Yesterday I rode to a conference in Madison with another woman who is in her second year of retirement after teaching for many years. She lamented how hard it was to be up so early. We met at 7 a.m. in a Park and Ride lot halfway between where we both live.
I'm glad to see the sun coming up earlier now. I feel cheerier in the morning when the sun is up.
I am ordinarily up at 6 a.m. each day. I still like to get an early start on the day even if I am retired from the daily grind. My routine during the school year when I was teaching was 4:45 a.m. on a school day, unless there was preparation I still needed to do for the day. Then I would get up usually no earlier than 4:00 a.m. I always tried to be in bed by 10:30 or 10:45. But that didn't always work. I was habitually sleep-deprived during the school week. Now I'm in bed between 10 - 10:30 pm., sometimes a bit earlier.
The other lady said that now that she is retired she likes to allow herself the luxury of staying in bed until after the sun comes up. In the winter that means well after 7 o'clock.
I would feel like a slacker if I routinely stayed in bed that long!
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I don't sleep soundly any more, I turned the lights off last night around 10 P and dozed off. The next thing I knew I woke up, wondering why there was a low rumble...maybe more like a tremble...which seemed to go on and on. My first thought was there must be a large semi truck in the neighborhood idling it's engine. Then I wondered if something was being offloaded in our large apartment building. I finally got up, walked thru the rooms to see if pictures were lop sided or if anything seemed out of place. Not seeing anything out of the ordinary I went back to bed. The first thing I read when I turned on the computer at 5 AM was EARTHQUAKE. So I was right! Kansas and Oklahoma got more than their share of earthquakes this year. Other family members in the Tulsa are had a much stronger quake. Our church sustained minor hairline cracks in the ceiling.
The church in Derby?
Yes. I looked but couldn't see what the men were pointing to as they were @ the front of the auditorium and I was nearly at the back. Don't think it was a major thing. They may have an insurance person estimate any damage.
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