Here comes the sun

It's official now-the sun is up at 6am. It was only a few weeks ago when I talking about how nice it was to see daylight creeping over the landscape when I came out of the gym at 6:45. Now it's my constant companion the minute I wake up. It's much easier to get out of bed when it's light out, but there's a downside to all this early illumination. I roll out of bed, throw on my sweats, and head right to the gym: no make-up, no shower, no curling iron until I get home. It's easy to do that under cover of darkness, but when the sun is shining I feel very exposed!

I always say one of the reasons we members of the ambulance association are so bonded is that we're the only people who've seen each other in the middle of the night (other than our significant others) which puts us in very exclusive company. We must stay on good terms with each other because there's way too much blackmail material out there to risk otherwise. When you have only minutes to get from your bed to the side of a patient, there's no time for worrying about how we look, and believe me we see some sights in the back of that ambulance at 3am!

So I'm accustomed to getting up in the dark and taking care of business without much thought to the face I'm taking out into the world. But now, with daylight coming so early, I'm re-thinking this early gym business. I either need to come to terms with the possibility that someone will see me looking so awful in the light of day, or start getting up and out at 5:30. I don't think that's going to happen. Oh well.....what the heck! I'm slowly creeping up into the "elderly" category and who expects an old lady to look good at any time of the night or day??? I suppose there's some freedom in age...