Breakfast

This week I've been doing a cat sit for a new friend, and I go to her house in the mornings and evenings.  She only lives about a 10-minute drive from my house.  So I've been waking earlier to include this task, making coffee & a quick breakfast (oatmeal, toast and jam, etc) then head out to visit with & feed the cat, which I've been enjoyed doing.

Usually, I am in bed sometime between 10pm and midnight, then usually asleep by 1am, and I push things regrettably, and am up at 7am (or even later!) to shower and dress for the day, let the dogs out, feed the animals, put on a pot of coffee, pour a glass of water over ice, and make breakfast, then rush out the door, mostly late.

This week I've been waking a half hour earlier, at 6:30am to include leaving and doing the cat sit, yet still pushing the limits and getting to work at 8am late - 8:15am usually.  However, this morning, I started my day at 6:15am and decided to treat myself for breakfast and coffee, thus doing less at home, so I showered, dressed, let the dogs out, fed the animals, left the house and drove to the gas station convenience store on the way to the cat sit, bought a full breakfast of choice (buffet style) of a spoonful of scrambled egg, a turkey and a pork sausage, half a spoonful of homemade hash browns, half a spoonful of roasted breakfast potato with red onion, green and red bell pepper, two small breaded chicken nuggets, and a small half-sized Chinese egg roll.  I also bought a coffee and a bottle of water.  Then did the house sit and enjoyed my breakfast while the cat ate her breakfast.

Needless to say, even though it was not a lot of food in my food container, it still was more than I could eat, so when I got back home, and with 15 minutes to spare, I split the leftovers between the dogs, hand-feeding them half the pork sausage, most of the little roast potatoes (no garnish) and both chicken nuggets.  They were thrilled to get some of this yummy breakfast, too!

I really love early starts so I will make every effort going forward to wake at 6am each morning and enjoy my whole morning before work starts... to watch the sunrise... to read the newspaper with a mug of coffee, outside if the weather allows... to make and eat a proper breakfast and drink a full glass of water... and to spend a good half hour playing with my dogs in the morning before heading out to work for 8am... and to make work on time.

Whatever you do today, enjoy!

Conversations

It's funny how you have an innocent conversation with someone you just met, talking about all sorts of worldly matters, chit-chatting, making small talk, and you come to find out how much you enjoyed the conversation and their company in that moment.

I met a new person a week ago, and she is just lovely!  I really believe that when you have a conversation with someone, it's for a reason.  You always obtain something positive from it.  Either a fact you didn't know; information about something you thought about but didn't know much and you find out more; you find out how close you really may be connected (example... you both know the same people or cross paths in the same space at some point but never knew or noticed before).

Life is full of strangers and familiar people.  Everyone is a stranger until you meet them.  Strangers are people you've never met, spoken to before, or taken notice of before.  Once you meet someone, you find you run into them many more times, and then, because you've met, you say hello, or wave, or greet them with familiarity, rather than never noticing them at all.

It's a wonderful topic of strangers and familial relationships and how they evolve.

I'm thankful for this person I just met a week ago and I can see a very positive, life-long friendship evolving with her.  It seems that we can help each other and support each other in a very positive way with business and friendship.  It's started already, and we are only one week in the new familial relationship.  It's awesome and so very inspiring.  Sometimes you are meant to meet the people you meet - good karma is what people call it.

Always take the time to say hello to someone and get to know them more than just to say 'hello' - you may never know what may come out of the first real conversation you have with them.

Have a awesome day! B.