How Monday should not start
WARNING! Following these five simple steps will start your day off on the wrong foot.
1. Woke up about 5 minutes before my alarm to my dog whining. This is unusual, but I figured that, like my 5 year old, maybe she didn't drain the tank before bed. So got up to let her out.
2. Just before I let her out, I heard one of those "good luck figuring out where this noise is coming from" beeps of what I assumed was a smoke alarm with a dying battery. So I let the dog out and started my hunt.
3. It only took me a few minutes to discover the location of the annoyance. It was a carbon monoxide detector in the stairwell leading to the basement. Thankfully in reach and we had batteries.
4. As I'm putting the detector back on the wall I hear the dog outside (at 5:30am) barking because I left her out for more then what she felt was appropriate in the brutal cold. So I sprint for the door, let her in and put her back in her crate.
5. As I'm headed back upstairs I begin to wonder how long this whole thing took because my alarm goes off at 5:30 and my wife was still sleeping. Sure enough I make it back to bed as my wife is trying to find the right button to turn off the alarm.
So needless to say not a great start, however, I'm determined to not let it affect the rest of my Monday.
1. Woke up about 5 minutes before my alarm to my dog whining. This is unusual, but I figured that, like my 5 year old, maybe she didn't drain the tank before bed. So got up to let her out.
2. Just before I let her out, I heard one of those "good luck figuring out where this noise is coming from" beeps of what I assumed was a smoke alarm with a dying battery. So I let the dog out and started my hunt.
3. It only took me a few minutes to discover the location of the annoyance. It was a carbon monoxide detector in the stairwell leading to the basement. Thankfully in reach and we had batteries.
4. As I'm putting the detector back on the wall I hear the dog outside (at 5:30am) barking because I left her out for more then what she felt was appropriate in the brutal cold. So I sprint for the door, let her in and put her back in her crate.
5. As I'm headed back upstairs I begin to wonder how long this whole thing took because my alarm goes off at 5:30 and my wife was still sleeping. Sure enough I make it back to bed as my wife is trying to find the right button to turn off the alarm.
So needless to say not a great start, however, I'm determined to not let it affect the rest of my Monday.
posted by Keros (again) at 8:15 AM
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