Up at 9:00

My plan failed miserably. I didn't wake up till 9 am today. It is tough to do when no matter how early I get up, I can't seem to sleep until 3am.

It dawned on me in the can today, that the problem with making changes such as getting up earlier, exercizing more, eating better, drinking less, and on and on, is in the way I sometimes approach changing what we normally refer to as "bad habits". This time I decided "I am going to stop getting up so late, and get up earlier". I focused on changing a bad habit, rather than just becoming a person who gets up early and exercizes. I don't know if the difference is obvious, but when I decide to change, I am making the assumption that the way I do it now is wrong. However, if I simply decide that I am a person who only drinks on Wednesday nights, I am making no assumptions about who I was before. I am deciding what type of person I want to be and being that.

Why this is important I think is that making such assumptions automatically puts me in a "wrong" position and implys that getting "right" will be difficult. I am a late sleeper trying to wake up early, rather than simply a early riser. It also creates a nice excuse for not getting right... because hey, it was difficult!

I wonder what other assumtions I am basing my life on... This is something I will be watching for. I also know that I do not approach all issues in my life like that, some I approach pretty much free of assumptions, I also should figure out what is different about the two types of situations, and why I appraoch them differently.

I finally got around to "developing" three orphaned photos from last Wednesday's hash. I'll put them here too just to be fair to them since most people will never go back to the old photo page again.

I also have some photos of Guri's new cage, before (when she was free) and now.