Saturday morning, just after 8am and I am starving. It is a dilemma. Julia is having a lie in so if I start making breakfast I will probably disturb her with all the clattering in the kitchen. I will also be selecting a time for her to wake up, which is not really the point of a lie in. The whole concept really demands that you are allowed to wake when you want and ease yourself out from under the covers at a time you feel is suitable.
On the other hand, someone making breakfast for you is always a bonus.
As a compromise, although I’m hungry enough for a cooked breakfast, I may settle for a sensible, and quiet, meal of cereal and fruit.
It’s partly about consideration, but also partly about self-preservation. After 37 years I have learned not only to be sensitive to my wife’s welfare, but to wake her gently. She has a tendency to imitate the fabled bear with a sore head when woken suddenly, as I have found to my cost more than once.
Healthy Breakfast
No, I’m still feeling too peckish for cereal. Looks like I’m going to go for a cooked breakfast and risk the consequences, though a few harsh words are hardly a deterrent when compared to the more likely scenario of a heart attack. I just looked up heart attack and found myself smiling at the risk factors, which are very close to being a biography in my case. I note that one of the factors, which I had never seen before, is psoriatic arthritis, which is one of the two sorts I have.
I was half-expecting to read that using a keyboard with a missing “t” was a factor. It doesn’t seem to be on the list but “hostility” does, and I confess to feeling fairly hostile towards my keyboard a the moment.
As a finale, I managed to publish before the photos and title, so I can now mention “senior moment” too.
That is some breakfast!
I am better known for my breakfasts than I am for my healthy eating. 🙂
I’ve been in that boat before, always found it best to keep quiet. Although I’m pretty sure if I started preparing such a culinary delight I’d probably receive a text along the lines of. “Ooo, are we having a cooked breakfast?” Love the mug by the way 😉
“Quiet” is, I find, the route to a harmonious marriage. We have two similar mugs, though they seem to spend a lot of time in the back of the cupboard as we have so many mugs and no enough tea.
It is always a good thing to be considerate of the spouse’s welfare, and waking them gently.
There are more acceptances in your future! I do not recommend heart attacks, having had one myself almost 4 years ago now, with none of the risk factors. Keep waking up on the right side of the ground, and working on those poems! 🙂
I had a friend I used to work with who was small, thin and active, but very unlucky. He always used to say that his worse nightmare was the thought of him being in hospital with a heart attack (his family had a history of them) as I came to visit.
Sure enough, it came to pass. He is still with us but has had two heart operations. It goes, as Chuck Berry says, to show you never can tell.