Daily writing prompt

What are your morning rituals? What does the first hour of your day look like?

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My morning ritual depends on Weekday versus Weekend but they’re still fairly similar and simple.

Monday through Friday, as long as I have work, I get up around 7am. I take my morning meds, brush my teeth, shave, shower, all that bathroom stuff, and then get dressed for work. Then I’m off! I live relatively close to work so I don’t typically worry about morning rush hour traffic. If I happen to be working from home I like to stretch out the morning routine a little bit, but only in so much as I can log in by 8am, check emails and see what meetings I have for the day, and do my morning routine in between those kinds of tasks.

Saturday and Sunday are similar in that I wake up around the same time to take my morning meds, which only takes a minute or so if I have my water bottle filled, and then I go back to sleep for a couple hours (typically because I stayed up late playing games or reading.) When I wake up for the day I go about the rest of the morning routine. That’s just about it. Nothing special. No “ritual”, just the standard types of things people do in the morning.