Are you more of a night or morning person?

Daily writing prompt

This one is sort of evolving. At least I am trying to force it to evolve.

Traditionally I am as much of a night person as one can be. I think I was in high school when I realized that I was better at studying later at night than I was in the morning. That lead to a lot of late nights with crappy sleep. It escalated wildly when I was in college the first time. I still often get a second wind around 10:00pm and that still leads to a serious lack of sleep on many nights.

I said this was evolving though and that is because I am trying very hard to change my routine. After weight loss surgery I was required to exercise daily. I barely ever exercised at all in the 50+ years prior, so that required a major lifestyle change. After a while I worked out a routine where I get up early and do all of my exercise for the day before the work day starts. As the amount of exercise I need increased, I had to start getting up earlier and earlier. I shoot for 5:00am most days even though I often (like today) don’t get out of bed until a little after 6:00am. That’s still crushingly early for me and my tiny little brain.

Is getting up stupidly early every day turning me into a morning person? Sort of. Maybe? I still feel like I am better later at night, but I am at least able to function in the pre-dawn hours and that is a notable change of pace for me. I guess the answer to the question at hand is that I am still a night person but I am doing my best to spread out when I am at my best. Let’s call it an on-going goal and put a pin in it until the daily writing prompt inevitably asks this same question again in a month or so.

What are your feelings about eating meat?

Daily writing prompt

I’m trying to answer this one on my phone while sitting in a hotel room in Vermont. I’m not sure how the tags should go, but I’ll figure it out.

I have no issues with eating meat. None at all. I eat chicken all the time. I used to eat beef all the time but since having gastric bypass surgery it’s a bit of a challenge chewing up little bite sized morsels enough that they don’t cause problems for me when swallowed. It hasn’t stopped me from eating beef, but it does take me a long time to get through small portions.

Pork is okay but we don’t have it often. Turkey is amazing but prepping it is a ton of work so we don’t have that often either. I’ve dabbled in duck before and liked it, and I’ve really enjoyed bison in the past, though I don’t think I’ve had it since surgery (have I?). I’ve never tried venison but that might be because we have deer in the woods behind our house and I want to be friends with them.

I’m not opposed to vegetarianism at all, in fact I sort of have a curiosity about it. I wouldn’t be fully on board, chicken and steak and turkey are way too delicious to swear off, but I’ve thought about declaring one or two days a week as veggie days.

So meat is good, but no-meat is pretty good too. As long as you are getting the nutrition you need, go with whatever floats your boat.