First of all, let me just say that I’m most certainly not a morning person. During weekends or holidays, I usually always snooze until around 2 in the afternoon. I go to bed at 2-4AM so basically, I’ve been getting 12+ hours of sleep for these past two weeks. Oooh, so maybe that’s why I haven’t been getting any work done…

Even when I was young, my sleeping pattern was always screwed up like that and I was never able to voluntarily wake up early without someone slapping me across the face.

Since today is the very last day of 2009, I decided to break the cycle. I wasn’t too keen on the idea of sleeping through the whole celebration of New Years Eve, so I woke up early for once. How? By not sleeping at all. Sleeping = no chance of having a warm breakfast and no chance seeing the sun rise (not that the grey sky will let any rays peek out anyway)

But the point is, I woke up! By myself! Of my own free will! And so this is what I did…

Went down to the kitchen and saw this on the fridge:

Horrible picture and unclear writing, but it says, “Hey guys! Please clean up! It’s 2010! - Mom” Her daily fridge notes always have the same basic message: do your chores. 

Then went to the kitchen table and laughed at this:

You probably can’t tell, but that isn’t a real bowl of chicken! It’s actually a piggy coin bank given to my younger brother as an xmas gift. I suspect that it was all part of my brother’s evil scheme to put it beside the real food just to trick us. LOL

Next, I braved the cold and went outside! Leaving the house during wintertime to just breathe is another thing I don’t often do. I’m a ‘summer’ person, so I become such a scrooge during the colder months and just hide indoors.

But then I remembered how loooooong winter’s going to last, so I thought, why not at least try and make friends with it?

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