I have no clever today

This was one of those mornings that I woke up and that’s about as far as my brain went.

I can tell the days when my brain is fully engaged and those days it is just getting by.

My first tell is whether or not I can do Sudoku. If I am seeing patterns, then the brain is fully engaged.

The first try to get my brain to fully engage is coffee. I have limited the amount I have each day to two cups in the morning trying to avoid the jitters in the evening. This is down from when I worked at Borders, which had free coffee as one of the perks, and drank about twelve cups a day. At Del Rey I got it down to six, again free coffee was a job perk. Then when I was pregnant with Caroline I cut it down to one cup and discovered I was not as wired at bedtime so I continue with it.

If that doesn’t work then exercise is next both mental and physical.

If that doesn’t work, then I know it’s going to be a difficult day mentally.

I am more careful about what I say or do on the Internet on these sorts of days. I tend to be emotionally a little more hair-trigger.

So I will muddle through the day and do what I can. I hope tomorrow is better.

I am grateful for the days of fully engaged brain.