A Summer Morning in the Life of Hannah

10:34 am: Wake up, look at clock *sigh* well so much for enjoying the morning...
10:40 am: I will only read one page of this book then I will go shower and do other productive things!
11:14 am: That was definitely more than one page...
11:25 am: Begin boiling water, shuck corn.
11:40 am: Attept to continue reading book while eating buttery corn on the cob with both hands. Hmm this is somewhat difficult. Oh well.
12:00 pm: I should really get in the shower.
12:05 pm: Commence reading book.
12:10 pm: Text Shelby - "Hey do you want to come over and play video games later?"
12:17 pm: Now how did I get here... on my blog. Really Hannah?!

This is why I love summer.

This is also why I dislike summer.

Yes, life is truly great when you can sleep in as long as wish, and then when you do finally wake up you realize you have no pressing engagements for the day and so are therefore free to do whatever you want the whole day. I mean come on - "Do you want to come over and play video games later?", did I honestly just text that? Haha. Oh yeah.

and

No, life is definitely not great when you waste away a perfectly good morning sleeping in way too long, and then continue to waste it away being slothful and laying under your covers with morning breath and disheveled bed hair reading a book. Then eating corn on the cob for breakfast. And then making plans to play video games later.

I can't decide whether that's awesome or horrible.

Truthfully right now I'm leaning more toward awesome. In all fairness I feel slightly justified since I have to wake up at 6 am 3-4 days a week to work.

But still.

I've continually vowed that I "Will wake up at 9 each morning! And exercise! And eat healthy! And then save a stranded kitten in a tree! And help grandma cross the road!"

Perhaps I exaggerate a bit. In fact I have no plans to save stranded kittens.

Or save the world.

Never have had that desire. Does that make me ignoble? That I have never really felt the desire to change the world? To be honest I'm quite content living my life and eating my corn on the cob. All I really need to feel satisfied is to simply do the best that I can do each day and to help those close around me to maybe feel a little happier.

I have some pretty simple dreams.

-Marry some dangerously handsome man and spend eternity with him
-Have children and raise them up right. Teach them about honor and responsibility and kindness and what not
-Become a dang good cook. I want my children to be able to boast about how their mother bakes "The best cookies this side of the Mississippi!"
-Visit the Bayou
-Have a nice little house with white siding and blue shutters and bright, beautiful, pink flowers hanging from baskets all around the porch. Or perhaps just a pink house with white shutters and yellow flowers... either way.
-Be kind and patient and serve others every day.
-Be obediant, faithful, and follow the Lord's commandments all the days of my life. Remain temple worthy.
-Graduate college
-Eventually ride in a motorcycle sidecar

That's all I really want.

I have no idea how we got from me wasting my mornings down to this, but let it be known that from this point forward I will wake up each morning at 9 am or earlier!