Friday..Morning rituals, The Circle of Life, and The Weather.

It's Friday! Friday! Friday! T.G.I.F.! LOL. It's another weekly review of a rant from a Midwest guy in the land of milk and honey! This week was full of interesting things. I read. I remembered, and I worked...a lot. Most importantly, my running shoes came in the mail finally!! I can now begin running real miles again!!

Today started at my normal annoying time, around 5:00 AM!! I had to get up and use the bathroom. My internal clock is somehow set for that exact time of the day regardless of how much water or whatever I drink the night before or don't. It's usually not a big deal, but when you think you have to get up around 6:00 AM and falling back asleep after the 5:00 AM bathroom cruise, it's usually impossible, it's annoying and difficult to do! What usually happens is I lay there. I lay there trying not to think about anything, but that's not the way it goes. I start thinking about yesterday, today, what needs to get achieved, where I'm going to work today, did I remember to put the laundry in the dryer, etc., and falling back asleep goes to the wayside. Hahahaha.

When I finally come to accept I'm not going to fall back asleep, I start the morning ritual of getting up. It's pretty dumb, but it's what my body knows is the sign it's time to get going. I put on my watch follow by my signet ring. Then, if I happen to actually have a sheet or comforter on my (cause I'm usually an oven), I stick my feet out into the cooler room air so they chill just a bit. That's my routine for "getting up" when I'm not in a rush or whatever.

Today, was a bit more easy to do--getting out of bed. I was in late from a corporate visit to the corporation in Ada, MI, and I got to pass through the Home land on the way back. God I miss it sometimes...the airport!! But this morning, when I looked at my calendar and also because my phone was blaring with google calendar messages, yesterday or today was the projected date of expectancy for my now passed family with Kull. Yeah. I was, not so long ago, expecting a little one with K.C., and it was due yesterday or today.The texts are from the end of January 2015...almost a month and half before we knew we were expecting. We were in the process of completing The Circle Of Life because it is one of the most basic aspects of our human nature--to live, to love, to create, and leave behind someone that will continue forward our line of genetics, thoughts, hopes, dreams, and aspirations. All that one does in a life-time is to this end--to achieve in life some things for ourselves but also the ones that should follow us. I sent Kull roses in a flower arrangement after one of my supporters agreed it was a good will gesture. I sent her nine roses to be exact. Nine, white roses with a note that simple said: Something beautiful for someone beautiful. #MNpeople #Livelove #Fall I didn't actually see them, but I was told they were amazingly arranged and beautiful. And the band played on.

The weather today is hazy! There's a mist in the air that is fairly wet. The streets are damp, and the cars are full of dew. It's quiet nice considering the weather doesn't really change much. It's the reverse of being in the Home land where this kind of weather is the norm, and a clear sunny day is so coveted, that people literally walk outside when the sun does come out, cold or warm, just to bath in the sun's rays for whatever few moments they can get. People do the same here...except most people have their cameras out taking pictures of it because 'weather' happens so infrequently it's worth capturing.
There it is.