
Describe, in detail, your muse’s morning routine.
Honestly, I’m a lot more nocturnal than I am…whatever a morning person is called…dayturnal? No probably not. Anyway, with the job having, I have to get up in the mornings so the first thing I do is start the coffee maker then I stumble to the shower. Depending on whether it’s been a night full of bad dreams or not usually determines whether I leave the bathroom door open while I take a shower or not. Privacy what? I used to live with over two hundred girls. Now I just live with Danny. I kinda like being able to leave the shower door open. Also yes sometimes I get claustrophobic in the shower. I’m a freak that way.
Usually while I’m in the shower Danny wakes up and we do the two people one sink dance but it’s kinda fun. I’m always threatening to spit toothpaste on his head. You know how Jamie did that one time in that episode of Mad About You? Maybe I watch too much TV. And there’s this toothpaste, it’s vanilla mint and it’s really kind of yummy. If I were more short bus and less me, I’d be eating it. Anyway after I finish in the bathroom I do Tai Chi. It makes me all centered and focused and less BWAH so that I can deal with the day better. Oddly enough it helps with the claustrophobia too and when you’ve got it as badly as I do, help is good. I also drink my coffee while I’m doing the Tai Chi. I know I’m supposed to drink green tea or something more new age-y. I need the caffeine and I like my coffee. Once Tai Chi is over, I get dressed in actual clothes I can wear out of the house because I usually do Tai chi in a wife beater and my underwear then I’m all makeup and hair—and really with the job I have now, mostly it gets pulled back in a ponytail on all bunched up at the back of my neck--before I’m out of the house and on my way to work. I usually walk because subway=underground and taxis are expensive. When it gets cold, I’ll probably suck it up and get a subway pass and use it. For now I’m walking girl. I could get a bike. Like with pedals, not a motorcycle. If Buffy and cars are nonmixy things I’m pretty sure motorcycles (the driving of them because I ride on the back of them very well. I’m all Michelle Pfeiffer in Grease 2 sans the Pink Ladies jacket. Maybe I should get a Pink Ladies jacket) would be nonmixy things. I stop and get a latte or a mocha or a frappachino on my way, which is one good thing about the walking.
That’s my morning. It changes a little on weekends. Saturdays and Sundays are for sleeping in. Sometimes I’ll skip the Tai Chi ‘cause weekends are more laid back, less dealy. Sometimes I do the Tai Chi just because Danny likes to watch and then we have breakfast or sometimes we’ll just go out and get street dogs and walk around the park. I like to go to the Dog Park and play with other people’s dogs. All the fun none of the pressure.