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Let’s play.

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Because it will make me happy, and I know you live for that.

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My morning starts like this:

Up between 5:00 and 5:30am.

Feed cat. Feed birds. Feed woodchuck.

Cup of tea.

Quick check of online news, email and social media.

Then, my new obsession. The New York Times game app.

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I used to do Wordle when it first came out, but not with any regularity. But since I discovered the free app?

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These brain teasers are how I start my day.

(Except for the Sudoku. I’ve always hated math.)

More games are available if you purchase the full version, but these are enough for me.

So…

How do you start your day?

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36 thoughts on “Let’s play.”

  1. I head straight for jetpack to see who has read and commented on my blog! Then I scroll through the reader until I hit the post I last liked or commented.

    I used to love the NYT word games. I even subscribed for awhile. They’ve lost a little of their shine, but I enjoy wordle, connections and sudoku a lot.

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  2. Doing the NY Times games, online/free, os my regular 12:01am activity. Today’s were hard!

    If you ever decide to uninstall the app, you can see all the games by clicking the 3 bars on the upper left corner. For a couple games (wordle and ???), you have to wait a min after you complete game.

    I don’t understand Letterboxed. How do you know what to spell???

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  3. Make a cortado (just an espresso today, no milk because I wanted to taste the new coffee unadulterated), set up a camp chair on the front stoop, read the paper while I drink my coffee and chat with the dogs and their humans as they walk by. I never give the humans a scratch behind the ears.

    On weekdays a neighbor finds my paper and tosses it up on the stoop, as she walks her dog early and I see them on their way home. On weekends, I’m up first (since there’s no such thing as a weekend in the retired world) so I have to find my own paper and I see them on the way out for their walk when they’re in less of a hurry – Sebastian (the dog) meanders on the way out and is in a hurry going home because he knows breakfast is next.

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  4. Similar start to yours: Up at 4:30, feed the pets, then drink coffee while either catching up on my blog reader or crosswords, then some sort of workout, either at the gym or here at home. Then on with the rest of my day (which usually means off to work 😞).

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  5. I used to start my day at 5:30 with coffee, check of emails and social, and then off with the dog for a 2-3 mile walk. Then make breakfast for everyone, get kid off to school, etc. Now that the kid is older and I’m injured, I do breakfast while spouse walks dog. Followed by emails and then yoga and knee exercises with the cat. If I’m lucky, I can get some writing in, but more often I’m either dealing with whatever hell broke loose for volunteer orgs or consulting.

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      1. LOL, I think it’s more like it involves me basically doing burpees because I have to keep getting up and stopping cat from doing bad things–or playing with cat with a toy while trying to stretch. There’s more yelling involved than in normal yoga.

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  7. Wake up, disarm the alarm to let the Wayne and Charlie in from their night outside and feed them. Feed the neighborhood cats outside, take a shower and get ready for work. Make my coffee to take with me on my drive to campus, and literally count every car that doesn’t pay attention to the road on my commute. Today there were 9 idiots on the road, all NM drivers may I add. Arrive at the office and try to calm down enough from my anger filled drive to review local news (I’m staying away from national news for the sake of my blood pressure) and log onto WP to see what’s happing. Then have to chat with the boss for about 25 mins to catch up on stuff that literally happened yesterday (his habit not mine) and eventually get to work.

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      1. Yes, they run the local cat club, called Club Pitty Paw. It’s located in the storage shed out back, Charlie’s the club manager and Wayne is the bar tender. That explains why their so tired when they come home…lol.

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    2. Just ssyin’, but it would be much healthier to stop looking for bsd drivers, and if you need to vount — count the good drivers, or the number of intersections you drive through. Why make yourself crazy so early in the day? Be nice to yourself.

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      1. You are so right….words to live by. Although the one thing I do when I get all worked up about bad NM drivers is, walk across the street to the Capra pen and just play with the baby goats. That helps 😉

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  8. Get up whenever (this morning it was 10:15am), turn on the coffee pot, do lots of bathroom things, coffee and email, read blogs and lots and lots of newspaper articles from 2 news papers, breakfast with the advice columnists – since I have nowhere to go and nothing to do and live alone – this could take hours.

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      1. There are nights when I don’t turn out the light until 3-4am and then am up at 6 or 7am and then good nights like last night – lights out around 2am, up around 6, then back to sleep till 10am. And yes, not having to get up at o’dark-thirty to take care of someone changes how you manage sleep. I still haven’t settled into a regular routine.

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  9. i wake up between 7:30-8:00am (no alarm). i generally lay in bed for about 10-15 minutes just day dreaming. then, i have a cup of tea or coffee on the patio in the sun. around 9:30am, i will head inside to grab a banana or yogurt. after breakfast, i do my household chores. i generally save my computer time until all my “work” is done. … i like the lull of the morning and don’t like to be rushed.

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  10. I love how you start your day. I’ll picture you beginning your morning when I start mine. ❤️

    I usually wake up around 6 or 6:30, let the dogs out, brew some coffee, clean up the kitchen from the teen shenanigans of the night before, and work on my soul homework until Ella wakes up for school.

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  11. First order of bsiness, Sudoku has absolutely nothing to do with math, only with numbers in an enclose space. Instead of numbers you could substitute pictures of birds, or cats, or snimals in general. The reason numbers are used is because everyone in the world uses them, and they automatically understand the relationships between the digits. But, you do not add, dubtract, multiply, divide, or solve for “x” or “y”. You need no formulae, no axioms, and certainly not a degree in Mathematics. Choose any nine items : knife, fork, spoon, butter knife, salad fork, soup spoon, steak knife etc and you can play Sudoku. They are just symbols — game pieces. The rest is up to you.
    Having said that, I start my day in bed, with cats and Word Press. Wake-up times sre random, whenever I open my eyes. Unless there is a particular purpose to be out of bed, my day starts slowly, and comfortably. When I am ready for life, then I get out of bed.

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  12. The cat wakes me up sometime in the middle of the night to eat and occasionally do wordle or check wordptess. I eventually get up at 5, make and eat breakfact…read emails, look at wordpress, watch youtube..head to work at 6am

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  15. I don’t like to get up as early as you, not if I (and my bladder) can help it anyway.

    I usually wake up around 7:15 and play wordle and connections (same free app as you) while in bed and text them in a group text called: Wordle Connections Girl Gang that consists of myself, Linds, Lolo and my girlfriend Dawn. 🤣

    There are some days they text me at 5:45 or so, but I try to ignore until my brain is awake. THEN I go take care of everything else which starts with coffee, but on the weekends someone generally delivers the cup of Joe and the pups and I can linger longer. I love the weekends.

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