ODDS and ENDS: Going to Bed, Getting Up, and Central Park

(If this isn’t making sense, it doesn’t make it lies…)

In the spirit of self improvement, I have decided to go for the lowest of hanging fruit on the personal empowerment tree; I’m trying to go to bed at a normal time. This one should be easy, real no brainer. This is actually the hump I am having trouble getting over. Did you know, all the cool stuff happens at night? It’s a fact! Look it up! Also, that’s when all of the worst movies come on tv. Anyway, going to bed is a real trick for me. My body wants to fall asleep, I get very tired in fact, and then I find a second wind and decided that tonight needs to be the night that I watch “Sorceress” on Prime. But not anymore. I want to become boring, and healthy. I want to get in better shape, and have a better out look on life, and my doctor told me that I have to get more than five hours of sleep a night. So… poop.

But, the flip of this is that I now get up early and get shit done, right? Well, sort of. Getting a jump on the day is nice, and I have also found it very rewarding to make breakfast for my family. I’m not talking cereal in a bowl, but actually making breakfast food for them. I started making gimbap for the kid – that one’s more of a special occasion breakfast – but most mornings it’s omelets, and egg sandwiches, and I even make a pot of miso soup. The one thing I would like to tweak, is that I do sit on the couch and stare at my phone for like thirty minutes before I get going. There is a part of me that thinks I should be using that time constructively.

I took a walk with the kid around Central Park today. She’s off from school, for some reason, and I needed her to get off the screen and do something outside. The Park seemed like the best idea. It is the one place in the City that I pass by daily, but only visit twice a year at most. And one of those two times will be to cut through it to get to the East Side. The fun thing about walking around the Park with the kid today was that she noticed that you can be in parts of the park, and not see or hear the City. Like a magic trick.