Yesterday, there was a me waxing lyrically about good matters and unacceptable bad temper,
and this morning I could quite easily strangle a moose with my bare hands.
The problem,, as always, is my post waking "fugue" state
Chris needing to get to the railway station before dawn,woke me up with his usual loud "Bonne amie" and even before my spinal cord and central nervous system had registered that it was indeed Tuesday let alone that it was freezing, I had driven him the two miles down a 1 in 4 hill to Prestatyn.
After a decade of uncommunicative early mornings, Chris STILL insists in trying to engage me in inane pre coffee conversations. Actually he still INSISTS on asking me a question that in his mind needs a verbal reply and cannot quite cope with a nod or at the best a low grunt!
So the usual in car interaction is left with him demanding " AN ANSWER!!!!" and me plotting violent death and destruction.
I just don't do waking good humour!
And so this morning, after my vomit inducing "Rebecca of SunnyBrook Farm" post of last night, All I can think of killing "KILL" KILL KILL THEM ALL"!!!!"
Mind you.........my saving grace is my New York coffee cup full of lovely silent coffee
Sitting here, in a quiet peaceful and dark kitchen....we are having our moment together...
In twenty minutes I will be human again
x
I have to admit to being a morning person and I literally bounce out of bed and land running.
ReplyDeleteMy dearest friend in the whole world is NOT a morning person, and when I left my 1st husband I went to stay with her.
I didn't stay very long (mutual agreement) because like you, she is in moose-strangling mode for some hours after waking, and didn't appreciate my version of Stepford-Wifeyness making her a hearty breakfast before she went to work accompanied by a neatly packed lunch (well I was only trying to help) (actually if I'd shown the same amount of concern for husband #1 ...)
Anyhow, must go now and sprinkle annoyingly good cheer to everyone I meet :))
xx ps you'll be relieved to know that I can't last beyond 9.30pm- at least un-morning-people can do evenings!
Yesterdays post was like one of those communal bollockings we get at work, where instead of speaking to the culprit themselves, everybody gets it - and because I seem to possess the same amount of guilt as a Jewish mother, I feel as if it is aimed at just me.
ReplyDeleteI am a morning person (once I am out of bed), and becasue shift working hubby's "morning" can either start at noon, 5am,7am,or 2pm, he has learnt over the years to get up and embrace the day whatever time it is! My first husband was like you in the morning though, but then he didnt like speaking when he had just got home from work, or when the "news" was on, or at any time really! He didnt last long!xxx
lol no communal bollocking, just another side swipe at bullying!
ReplyDeletelively debate is the stuff of blogging
>After a decade of uncommunicative early mornings, Chris STILL insists in trying to engage me in inane pre coffee conversations.
ReplyDeleteKeep it up Chris. He may become less antisocial through osmosis :-)
>lively debate is the stuff of blogging
Absolutely. There are many people in the world today (here in the UK, and overseas) who would gladly stifle debate for their own religious, political or corporate interests. Whilst I don't always agree with John, I believe it's actually the process of debate that is important, and not necessarily the outcome.
Nx
I would love to be a morning person but alas I am not. I could quite happily stay in bed until about 12 noon, sipping coffee, reading my book and then having another little doze.
ReplyDeleteIt sounds like you and Chris are chalk and cheese just like my husband and myself, it seems to work though doesn't it?
Briony
Her Indoors and I have an understanding. No communication other than a polite nod toward each other before coffee.
ReplyDeleteA man after my own heart. Oh, how I wish morning people could just understand!
ReplyDeletePoor Chris! The guy's a saint for putting up with you you mardy bum!
ReplyDeleteGotta love the power of coffee.
ReplyDeleteI tend to redrawn in relationship to how hard my day way. If I have had a super duper idiot parade all day, I am so withdrawn, I seldom speak at home.
Don't try to engage me with questions, nor ask me how my day has been...it should be very obvious. Let me stew, I will recover and then I will join the real world...maybe or I may just go to bed.
This reminds me of your coffee condition only on opposite ends of the day.
May we both improve.
I also am not a morning person...
ReplyDeleteI need at least 15 minutes to get over the extreme and horrible effort it takes to get out of bed.
I am convinced that "morning people" are merely sleep walking and never actually woke up... it is the only logical explanation.
I'm with you. Mornings are rough for me. It takes me a long time -- and a good cup of coffee -- to get swinging. My little guy is a morning person x 10, like most kids. And, like your Chris, seems to always have a pressing-only-to-him matter that needs answering right that minute ("if there are 24 ours in the day, why are there only 12 hours on the clock??"), before we are even down the stairs. So we have been forced to implement the "No Questions Before Coffee Rule." He sees this as complete tyranny and senseless bossing. We know it is for his own safety. But I s'pose that wouldn't work unless Chris were 10 years old.
ReplyDeleteYour cuppa looks so good, I'm going to go make myself another.
Good day!
But don't you feel as though you develop some of the same habits, the longer you live with someone? That seems to be the case with us after 34 years (dear God is it that long?) Fortunately we're both fairly good in the morning especially after a few cups of Yorkshire Tea!
ReplyDeleteThere would be no problem at all if those morning people would just SHUT UP ! My husband of 18 years is quite attempt at this. The duct tape has been most helpful
ReplyDeleteI'm a morning person, love that time of day...love to enjoy it silentlyI All those people running willy-nilly asking inane questions from the minute they open their eyes are NOT morning people..they are just annoying!
ReplyDeleteThink how wonderful the world would be if we would all greet the day with silence and coffee!
How can you not be a morning person, John, with all those animals chattering at you for attention?
ReplyDeleteYou are NOT a hypocrite, my guess is you were fully awake when you wrote that post, and you were able to start your day the way you NEED to. Once awake, you need a while to assimilate that you are indeed, here for at least part of another day.
ReplyDeleteSome people seem to absorb this instantly and are switched on.
I am not one of those people, nor have i ever been. I am Much Improved from how i used to be, but i still need that quiet time before i say much of anything.
If i am forced to try to hurry up my switch, which works more like a dimmer switch, it just doesn't go well. And, it's not just because i don't like it, even if i realise that it's beneficial to need to be alert and chirpy right away, it just. doesn't. happen. The only thing that gets revved up from the whole exercise is my crankiness.
The cats know this, and wake me gently. Pirrups, friendly headbutts, and purrs. Even Phoebe, the whiny one has learnt this lesson.
My spouse of nearly 25 years, still has problems learning this lesson.
sigh.
megan
If God wanted me to be a morning person, he'd have made it much later in the day. My son is no more a morning person than I am, and so the weekday-rush-to-get-out-the-door-to-school conversation is a string of growls, snaps, and the occasional death threat.
ReplyDeleteI feel your pain. My husband is ready for in-depth, deep philosophical converations before both feet his the floor while I can barely speak. I can't even tell him to be quiet for an hour or so and end my misery.
ReplyDeleteI've learned just to walk away. And I do! It's much better than the alternative. : )
~Andrea~
Loves me coffee..but I'm a Chris follower...sorry!
ReplyDeleteOh NO! And I thought I was the only one who DOESN'T LIKE TO TALK IN THE MORNING for at least one hour! Thank you very much.
ReplyDeleteI am not in a bad mood at all. I just can't/don't want to talk. Plain and simple.
So John, I can relate and feel sorry for you to have to 'hear' Chris in the mornings. My sympathies.
Hypocrisy makes us human. And I try not to speak until I've got some caffeine in me in the morning...
ReplyDeleteI'm not in the mood for early morning humor either. It drives me nuts. However, I am still a morning person and am up and at 'um getting ready to go out to the barn for chores.
ReplyDeletehehe. My daughter and I are both total bears in the morning. We need total quiet for at least an hour to make us human. Patrick and my(40year old) son, Teddy are both sunny and cheerful in the morning. Always have been. Really gets on my nerves! Not sure how it works out this way, but seems opposites like Little Mary Sunshine and me always attract. x-c
ReplyDeleteDrugs, especially liquid and dark, make all the difference sometimes. Thank god for little black beans. I share your difficulty with early stages of the waking state. However, Cal is even worse than I am, so I don't usually have anyone chatting at me during that fragile, fragile window of time.
ReplyDeleteDiaxxx