Yeah, you could remind me to go back to sleep for two hours. :-P It's bad enough as it is; mornings and I have never agreed with each other.

I have a challenge for you, sed: be the real you, all day long.

I'm off in a couple of minutes. :-)

How close to "the real you" are you, when you talk to me?

You don't seem all that frightening, to me ...

Complete morons don't get accepted into enrichment courses.

The odds that you're disgusting in any way are pretty darn small, sed, seriously.

But it is time for me to go. Try to take it easy on the mean self-talk, okay? Good night. :-)

Getting up early voluntarily is very difficult. Maybe you could try to walk at night instead. It might make it more likely to happen. Although I have been getting up super early every day and it does get easier.

I hate poison ivy! All I have to do is look at it and it seems I break out in an itchy rash. Lots of Calomine lotion.

I think that's happened to me as well. I post on your blog and we end up taking about me.

Did you go for a walk this morning, Mark? Sometimes a little fresh air can offer a new perspective. I'm sorry you have been feeling disappointed.

Heh, maybe it just means I'm a good listener, Beth. :-)

No walk this morning, either, but I'm going to keep trying. One question I have to ask myself is, if I want to use this therapist, why do I fight everything she suggests.

I've been able to get up earlier than I do, starry, so I know it's possible. What I've been lacking, lately {well, for quite a few years now} is the inspiration. On the other hand, maybe the inspiration is waiting for me on one of my walks. ;-)

Thank you all for caring.

Hi Malign, I hate to walk - there seems no purpose to it, only if it gets me to where I am going.

My therapist has been encouraging me to walk in the afternoons instead of napping - not working!. However I have come up with an idea - I have just started a digital photography course so I am going to take my camera with me . So there now is a purpose, I will be looking out for interesting thing to photograph, its no longer a senseless walk.

I know you like photography - would this work for you?

Hi goosey! Haven't had a chance to talk to you in a while ...

With a camera in hand, I've been known to walk slower than a wading bird fishing ... At the very least, it makes my pace unreliable.

I have done walking for exercise in the past; you're walking quickly but there's still lots to see, if you keep your eyes open. What allowed me to do it for exercise, before, was setting time goals for myself: I would walk a set course away from my house for a timed 15 minutes, and then turn around and walk back, trying to get home before 15 minutes elapsed. That goal kept my second-half pace from dropping, and the fact that I could gradually go farther and farther in the 15 minutes was a measure of progress. Having maybe three different courses made it varied enough that I didn't get completely bored.

To me, senseless is jogging. :-)

JUST DO IT!!! Get inspired while you're walking.

One foot infront of the other Bro - thats all it takes

seriously though, thats real early :eek:

(that time of the morning should NOT exist)