Good morning!

Meet my life after college.  A teacher's schedule is not kind to the night owl types.  Luckily, I am (and always have been) a morning person.  I love everything about mornings; silence, crisp air, sunrise, how empty the roads are, morning radio shows, etc.  No matter what time I go to bed each night, my eyes naturally pop open around 5am each morning and when I'm lucky, I can force myself to go back to sleep.  Sleeping past 7am is often considered a small miracle!

After wild and crazy college nights out on the town, I have been telling myself that I am too old for that kind of crap anymore.  Although I'm at the ripe ol' age of 24, I'm feeling older and older each day.  I am so old that I enjoy eating supper at five and can never finish an episode of 20/20 because I fall asleep half-way through.  Friday I complained while falling asleep that 20/20 comes on too late... FYI, it comes on at 10pm on Friday nights!

I am such a morning person that I always scheduled the earliest classes possible in college, never required coffee to function, never hit the snooze button, smile and sing when I wake up (most days), and do some of my clearest thinking and best decision making in the morning.  I went through a one-week phase where I was determined to integrate coffee into my morning routine because I wanted to appreciate it a little more, but my boyfriend asked me to stop because I was so freaking obnoxious (he most definitely is NOT a morning person...).

If I wasn't a morning person, I wouldn't have snapped these beautiful pics:

An early morning rainbow! (Unedited)

A beautiful sunrise- it seriously looked this vivid! (Only slightly edited using Instagram)

Not only am I an extreme morning person, but I am devoted to breakfast.  I think I could probably count on both hands the days I've ever skipped breakfast...  I can skip lunch easily, but if I don't eat breakfast within 30 minutes of rising and shining, I'm not really shining anymore.  I actually dread sleeping over at other people's houses because I feel rude for demanding breakfast bright and early.

I don't think I've ever known a morning person that I didn't like!  Even when morning people have off-days they are still a whole lot more easy to deal with than non-morning people.  Life isn't easy for us... we're a misunderstood group of wonderful, friendly, and cheery people!