WotD: Bright-eyed and bushy-tailed
You know, sometimes life doesn’t work out how you want it to.
Today is Monday, and I woke up bright-eyed and bushy-tailed to write and publish this post to have it out by my self-imposed deadline of 11:00 am.
Well, that didn’t happen.
It’s hard to make plans when you run your own small business.
Well, it’s easy to make plans; it’s just hard to stick to them.
Anyways, to be bright-eyed and bushy-tailed means to be happy, healthy, full of energy and in a good mood.
I wonder how many of you woke up bright-eyed and bushy-tailed this morning.
Many people dislike Mondays because it’s the first day of the week, and they must wake up early after sleeping in over the weekend.
That’s called Mondayitis.
When they do get up, they go through the motions until coffee number three kicks in around 10:30 am.
I used to be like that, but I like Mondays now.
Monday is my Friday.
What I mean is my workweek begins on Thursdays and ends on Mondays.
I’m not saying I always wake up ready and raring to go on Mondays, but when I get up, I know I can take it a little easier on Tuesday.
I’m a morning person and always have been.
I remember when I was a student at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, BC, Canada, I’d wake up every day bright-eyed and bushy-tailed.
Seriously, I’m not lying.
I studied three days a week full-time and worked four days a week full-time.
On workdays, I’d get up at 6:00 am sharp and be out the door by 6:15, bike for about 20 minutes to work, have breakfast, and start just before 7:00 am.
My job finished at 7:00 pm, and then I’d head up to Jericho Beach to sit and watch the sunset at around 9:00 pm in the summer.
(Actually, I just checked, and today it will set at 9:22 pm.)
Although I still get up early, I don’t get up as fast.
I’m still bright-eyed and bushy-tailed but at a slower forty-five-year-old man’s pace.
Flesch-Kincaid Readability Test
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On the Flesch-Kincaid reading-ease test, this post scores 78.
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